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Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects - Second Edition

By : Jeroen Mulder
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Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects - Second Edition

By: Jeroen Mulder

Overview of this book

Are you ready to unlock the full potential of your enterprise with the transformative power of multi-cloud adoption? As a cloud architect, you understand the challenges of navigating the vast array of cloud services and moving data and applications to public clouds. But with 'Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects, Second Edition', you'll gain the confidence to tackle these complexities head-on. This edition delves into the latest concepts of BaseOps, FinOps, and DevSecOps, including the use of the DevSecOps Maturity Model. You'll learn how to optimize costs and maximize security using the major public clouds - Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. Examples of solutions by the increasingly popular Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Alibaba Cloud have been added in this edition. Plus, you will discover cutting-edge ideas like AIOps and GreenOps. With practical use cases, including IoT, data mining, Web3, and financial management, this book empowers you with the skills needed to develop, release, and manage products and services in a multi-cloud environment. By the end of this book, you'll have mastered the intricacies of multi-cloud operations, financial management, and security. Don't miss your chance to revolutionize your enterprise with multi-cloud adoption.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Index

Designing for interoperability and portability

Portability and interoperability should be driven by use and business cases – not for the pure sake of portability or interoperability. In IT-systems there are four levels that define portability of systems: data, applications, platforms, and infrastructure, following the Architecture Development Method (ADM) of TOGAF.

Data represents information in such form that it can be processed by computers. Data is stored in storage that is accessible to computers.

Applications is software that performs actions that are triggered by business requests.

Platforms support the applications.

Infrastructure is a collection of computation, storage, and network resources. Computation can also refer to cloud computing including virtual machines, containers and serverless functions.

One important note that we have to make at this point, is that cloud computing does cause the effect of ‘blurring’ in the demarcation of infrastructure, platforms...