Learn Cloud Computing from Scratch

Learn cloud computing basics: how on-demand, pay-as-you-go access to a shared pool of resources enables scalable, elastic services and remote data storage, with security considerations.

Explore cloud services by detailing multi-tenancy, service lifecycle management, security, and responsiveness; map software, platform, and infrastructure as a service to pay as you go offerings.

Explore private cloud deployment as an exclusive, secure, single-organization environment, including on-premises and outsourced options, with emphasis on data security, control, and governance.

Explore the public cloud deployment model, its pay-as-you-go scalability, internet access from third-party providers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, and the security, data governance, and service level agreements considerations.

Learn about cloud deployment models with a focus on the community cloud, including collaboration, shared maintenance, on-premises and outsourced options, cost effectiveness, and security considerations.

Explore hybrid cloud deployment, combining private and public clouds to enable data portability and scalable resources. Learn about SLA, security trade-offs, and management complexity, and its suitability.

Explore cloud computing architecture by outlining a four-layer model: user layer, network layer, cloud management layer, and hardware resource layer, with provisioning, SLA governance, and data center roles.

Understand the structure of the cloud, its anatomy, and how four components: application platform, virtualized infrastructure, virtualization, and physical hardware build cloud infrastructure.

Explore how cloud applications replace standalone and web apps with scalable, on-demand services, enabled by multi-tenancy, elasticity, and a heterogeneous platform under SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS.

Manage the cloud infrastructure to ensure performance and quality of service while controlling costs. Learn about resource management, load balancing, cloud migration, governance, and service level agreements.

Learn cloud computing from scratch by examining migrating applications to the cloud with evaluation, strategies, prototyping, provisioning, and testing for risk, security, compliance, and cost reduction.

Explore software as a service development in the cloud by evaluating deployment models—from managed infrastructure and platform to IaaS and PaaS—focusing on multi-tenancy, security, and vendor lock-in considerations.

Learn how platform as a service enables cloud-aware software development by deploying and scaling SaaS applications online, emphasizing multi-tenant architecture, monitoring, and integration with other cloud services.

Explore cloud computing with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), examining cloud service providers, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, regions and zones, scalable compute and storage, and data analytics and machine learning services.

Explore the Amazon Web Services cloud platform, a leading provider of compute, storage, and networking services. Learn how EC2, S3, SQS, VPC, and ELB enable scalable, on-demand deployments.

Microsoft Azure is a cloud platform offering pay-as-you-go storage and compute, scalable web and worker roles, fabric controller management, and a global content delivery network.

Explore the IBM cloud platform and its smart cloud offerings, covering private, public, and hybrid models, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, with virtualization, management, and security for development and testing.

Salesforce cloud platform, a leading cloud computing SaaS provider, offers Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Collaboration Cloud with Chatter to optimize CRM, ERP, and customer service.

Explore the EMC cloud platform and its IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings, open architecture, security and data analytics services, plus Kapua cloud toolkit and Captiva for document capture.

Explore the benefits of cloud computing, including agility, cost reduction, accessibility, and on-demand scalability. Note the drawbacks, such as dependence on internet access, security concerns, and interoperability limits across providers.