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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

Hands-On Lab 3 – Optimizing Current State (12 Months Later)

In the last chapters, data and insight quickly identified Google, AWS, and Azure as well-suited providers for the infrastructure and services NeBu Systems required in the very early stages of their transformation. Based on price, performance, and price-to-performance data, AWS was chosen as NeBu Systems' initial cloud service provider.

As with many transformations, NeBu Systems has had challenges with change management and governance, which, in turn, have slowed adoption. Many questions are being asked as infrastructure costs have escalated. NeBu Systems has chosen to examine the current state in a little more detail. NeBu has imported one of their most recent AWS billing files. The plan is to quickly identify ways to optimize current state and control costs.

In this chapter, real-time data and insight will...