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Hybrid Cloud for Developers

By : Manoj Hirway
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Hybrid Cloud for Developers

By: Manoj Hirway

Overview of this book

This book introduces you to the hybrid cloud platform, and focuses on the AWS public cloud and OpenStack private cloud platforms. It provides a deep dive into the AWS and OpenStack cloud platform services that are essential for developing hybrid cloud applications. You will learn to develop applications on AWS and OpenStack platforms with ease by leveraging various cloud services and taking advantage of PaaS. The book provides you with the ability to leverage the ?exibility of choosing a cloud platform for migrating your existing resources to the cloud, as well as developing hybrid cloud applications that can migrate virtual machine instances from AWS to OpenStack and vice versa. You will also be able to build and test cloud applications without worrying about the system that your development environment supports. The book also provides an in-depth understanding of the best practices that are followed across the industry for developing cloud applications, as well as for adapting the hybrid cloud platform. Lastly, it also sheds light on various troubleshooting techniques for OpenStack and AWS cloud platform services that are consumed by hybrid cloud applications. By the end of this book, you will have a deep understanding of the hybrid cloud platform and will be able to develop robust, efficient, modular, scalable, and ?exible cloud applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Cost benefits of cloud migration


Migrating to the cloud offers the following cost benefits:

  • Efficient hardware utilization: In a cloud environment, the hardware is efficiently utilized and shared among other organizations' computing needs. This optimizes the use of the hardware, which means lower costs for the organization.
  • Lower power costs: Better hardware utilization means more efficient power usage. Idle servers waste a lot of power, which is prevented in the cloud environment. Organizations have to pay large costs when the hardware is running in their local data center. 
  • Lower people costs: In order to maintain the IT infrastructure, talented engineers are hired by the organization. Hiring such engineers is expensive, which is why the staffing budget of most organizations is much higher. The amount of money spent on staffing usually exceeds the costs of the actual hardware and software. When the data center is migrated to the cloud, these costs are saved.
  • Zero capital costs: Running a...