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Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions

By : Kevin L. Jackson, Scott Goessling
Book Image

Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions

By: Kevin L. Jackson, Scott Goessling

Overview of this book

Cloud adoption is a core component of digital transformation. Scaling the IT environment, making it resilient, and reducing costs are what organizations want. Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions presents and explains critical cloud solution design considerations and technology decisions required to be made for deploying the right cloud service and deployment models, based on your business and technology service requirements. This book starts with the fundamentals of cloud computing and its architectural concepts. It then walks you through cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS), deployment models (public, private, community, and hybrid) and implementation options (enterprise, MSP, and CSP) to explain and describe the key considerations and challenges organizations face during cloud migration. Later, this book delves into how to leverage DevOps, Cloud-Native, and serverless architectures in your cloud environment and presents industry best practices for scaling your cloud environment. Finally, this book addresses in depth how to manage essential cloud technology service components, such as data storage, security controls, and disaster recovery. By the end of this book, you will have mastered all the design considerations and operational trades required to adopt cloud services, no matter which cloud service provider you choose.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Prologue
18
Hands-On Lab 1 – Basic Cloud Design (Single Server)
20
Hands-On Lab 3 – Optimizing Current State (12 Months Later)
21
Cloud Architecture – Lessons Learned
22
Epilogue

What is Cloud Computing?

We hear that the cloud simplifies, yet it makes things more complicated (at first). It saves us money, yet unusually high bills have surprised many IT leaders and executives. The cloud is flexible, agile, and nimble, yet many get locked into single providers with less than optimal architectures and with substantial migration costs to change. We also hear that the cloud is not as secure as our data center, even though this has been proven false time and again.

In many ways, cloud computing reflects human nature. Everyone believes their idea is best. People sometimes blindly follow their beliefs regardless of the data. No single cloud provider, cloud service, or cloud architecture is perfect. They all have things that we wish were different. They have rules to follow, and they all peddle the line of being the only way to the truth and the promised land.

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