Cloud Data Centers

Cloud Data Centers

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Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is an information technology (IT) paradigm, a model for enabling ubiquitous access to shared pools of configurable resources (such as computer networks, servers, storage, applications and services), which can be rapidly provisioned with minimal management effort, often over the Internet. Cloud computing allows users and enterprises with various computing capabilities to store and process data either in a privately-owned cloud, or on a third-party server located in a data center, thus making data-accessing mechanisms more efficient and reliable. Cloud computing relies on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economy of scale, similar to a utility.

What is cloud computing?

Read the following material regarding general principles in cloud computing:

Virtualization

Network Virtualization

Storage

Containers

Cloud Providers

Cloud service providers (CSP) are companies that offers network services, infrastructure, or business applications in the cloud. The cloud services are hosted in a data center than can be accessed by companies or individuals using network connectivity.

The large benefit of using a cloud service provider comes in efficiency and economies of scale. Rather than individuals and companies building their own infrastructure to support internal services and applications, the services can be purchased from the CSP, which provide the services to many customers from a shared infrastructure.

Read the following material regarding CSP:

Case Study - Amazon Web Service - Intro

AWS continues to be the number one cloud provider in the market (Link) and this is because the speed of innovation that they have, when running any type of workloads in the cloud AWS can handle any type of requeriment that you need, that being said we will be using AWS in the following sections.

Read the following material:

AWS - EC2 Services

Read both EC2’s Linux and Windows user guides

EC2 - FAQ

  • EC2 (Links to an external site)

AWS - VPC Services

Read both the Getting started and User manuals for Amazon VPC

VPC FAQ

AWS - Elastic Load Balancing

Read the Elastic Load Balancer User Guide and FAQ

AWS - Auto Scaling

Read the user guide and FAQ

AWS - Simple Storage Service (S3)

Read User main FAQ

AWS - Other Services - IAM, RDS & Cloudwatch

Read user guide and FAQ on:

IAM

  • IAM (Links to an external site)

RDS

  • RDS (Links to an external site)

CloudWatch