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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

An Azure cloud security case study

Company XYZ currently has a small number of applications in Azure, and they are planning a significant expansion of the Azure cloud to meet their business needs. To support the large-scale environment, they are building a flexible backbone network to support the connectivity between the Azure cloud and on-prem resources, with a robust security solution to partition internet-facing networks from an intranet environment. In this case study of Company XYZ’s cloud deployment project, we will focus on two aspects – cloud infrastructure security and network security.

Organizational infrastructure security

Based on the customer environment, we will architect an organization infrastructure hierarchy of Azure management groups and subscriptions.

Management groups

The Azure management group is at the top of the Azure resource management hierarchy. Permissions and policies applied at a management group will flow to all objects below...