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The Self-Taught Cloud Computing Engineer

By : Dr. Logan Song
Book Image

The Self-Taught Cloud Computing Engineer

By: Dr. Logan Song

Overview of this book

The Self-Taught Cloud Computing Engineer is a comprehensive guide to mastering cloud computing concepts by building a broad and deep cloud knowledge base, developing hands-on cloud skills, and achieving professional cloud certifications. Even if you’re a beginner with a basic understanding of computer hardware and software, this book serves as the means to transition into a cloud computing career. Starting with the Amazon cloud, you’ll explore the fundamental AWS cloud services, then progress to advanced AWS cloud services in the domains of data, machine learning, and security. Next, you’ll build proficiency in Microsoft Azure Cloud and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by examining the common attributes of the three clouds while distinguishing their unique features. You’ll further enhance your skills through practical experience on these platforms with real-life cloud project implementations. Finally, you’ll find expert guidance on cloud certifications and career development. By the end of this cloud computing book, you’ll have become a cloud-savvy professional well-versed in AWS, Azure, and GCP, ready to pursue cloud certifications to validate your skills.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1: Learning about the Amazon Cloud
9
Part 2:Comprehending GCP Cloud Services
14
Part 3:Mastering Azure Cloud Services
19
Part 4:Developing a Successful Cloud Career

Microsoft Azure Cloud Foundation Services

In the first two parts of the book, we dove into AWS and GCP and explored and provisioned the cloud services. We have now reached the third part of the book, which is about the Microsoft Azure cloud. In this part, we will focus on two things:

  • Comparing the three clouds as we introduce the Azure cloud
  • Expanding to look at more advanced Azure cloud concepts and integrations, based on the cloud discussions we have covered so far

In this chapter, we will explore Azure’s foundation services. We will cover the following contents:

  • Understanding the Azure resource hierarchy, by comparing cloud resource hierarchies for AWS, GCP, and Azure
  • Learning about Azure compute services by comparing VM instances, containers, and serverless services for the three cloud platforms
  • Learning about Azure storage services by comparing object, file, block, and archive storage for the three cloud platforms
  • Practicing Azure...