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Architecting Google Cloud Solutions

By : Victor Dantas
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Architecting Google Cloud Solutions

By: Victor Dantas

Overview of this book

Google has been one of the top players in the public cloud domain thanks to its agility and performance capabilities. This book will help you design, develop, and manage robust, secure, and dynamic solutions to successfully meet your business needs. You'll learn how to plan and design network, compute, storage, and big data systems that incorporate security and compliance from the ground up. The chapters will cover simple to complex use cases for devising solutions to business problems, before focusing on how to leverage Google Cloud's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) capabilities for designing modern no-operations platforms. Throughout this book, you'll discover how to design for scalability, resiliency, and high availability. Later, you'll find out how to use Google Cloud to design modern applications using microservices architecture, automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices. The concluding chapters then demonstrate how to apply machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to derive insights from your data. Finally, you will discover best practices for operating and monitoring your cloud solutions, as well as performing troubleshooting and quality assurance. By the end of this Google Cloud book, you'll be able to design robust enterprise-grade solutions using Google Cloud Platform.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Google Cloud
4
Section 2: Designing Great Solutions in Google Cloud
10
Section 3: Designing for the Modern Enterprise

Understanding cloud security

In Chapter 1, An Introduction to Google Cloud for Architects, we discussed the measures taken by Google to secure their infrastructure and their approach to cloud platform security. We also highlighted the importance of understanding that security is a shared responsibility, even in Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery models. Throughout this chapter, we will explore the things that fall under your responsibility, as a cloud architect, to ensure your solutions are secure and aligned with enterprise best practices. We will start by understanding how security is different in modern cloud systems compared to what it used to be in traditional on-premises IT systems, and some of the basic concepts and best practices surrounding cloud security.

Security in the cloud world

There are significant differences in visibility and control points across the layers of the infrastructure in the cloud. With the variety of new cloud...