Preface

Enterprises move environments to the cloud. Applications and systems are not migrated to just one cloud platform: enterprises will use a mix of Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), hosted on different platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and on-premises private clouds. Enterprises are adopting a multi-cloud strategy, leaving the architects and lead engineers with the challenge of how to integrate architectures and manage the enterprise cloud. Architects and engineers will learn how to design, implement, and integrate cloud solutions and set up controls for governance.

After the introduction of the concept of multi-cloud, this book covers all of the topics that architects should consider when designing systems for multi-cloud platforms. That starts with designing connectivity to and between the various platforms and creating the landing zones in Azure, AWS, and GCP.

The book is divided into four main sections, covering the following:

• Operations, including setting up and managing the landing zones that provide the infrastructure for cloud environments
• Financial operations including cost control and license management
• Security operations, covering identity and access management, securing data, security information, and event management
• Continuous delivery and deployment using DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and new concepts such as AIOps and Site Reliability Engineering

The book contains best practices for the major providers, discusses common pitfalls and how to avoid them, and gives recommendations for methodologies and tools. Of course, a book about multi-cloud could never be complete, but this book will provide you with good guidelines to get started with architecting for multi-cloud.