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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

Azure cloud networking

We discussed AWS VPC and GCP VPC previously. They are very similar except that an AWS VPC is regional and a GCP VPC is global (with regional subnets). Azure offers a similar cloud networking service called Azure Virtual Network (vNet), and it is regional. Like VPC peering in AWS and GCP, Azure vNets can be peered across different regions and different accounts. We know that AWS VPC peering can be initialized from one VPC and accepted by the other, and GCP VPC peering is implemented by creating peering from VPC1 to VPC2, and then from VPC2 to VPC1. In Azure, vNet peering is done similarly, and vNet peering is also non-transitive.

Like AWS provides SGs and NACLs to protect EC2’s and VPC/subnets, Azure offers NSGs and Azure Firewall to protect cloud network resources. NSGs provide basic network traffic filtering capabilities at the subnet and network interface level, whereas Azure Firewall offers more advanced traffic control at the network and application...