Architecting the Cloud: Design Decisions for Cloud Computing Service Models (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS)

by Michael J. Kavis

An expert guide to selecting the right cloud service model for your business

Cloud computing is all the rage, allowing for the delivery of computing and storage capacity to a diverse community of end-recipients. However, before you can decide on a cloud model, you need to determine what the ideal cloud service model is for your business. Helping you cut through all the haze, Architecting the Cloud is vendor neutral and guides you in making one of the most critical technology decisions that you will face: selecting the right cloud service model(s) based on a combination of both business and technology requirements.

Guides corporations through key cloud design considerations Discusses the pros and cons of each cloud service model Highlights major design considerations in areas such as security, data privacy, logging, data storage, SLA monitoring, and more Clearly defines the services cloud providers offer for each service model and the cloud services IT must provide

Arming you with the information you need to choose the right cloud service provider, Architecting the Cloud is a comprehensive guide covering everything you need to be aware of in selecting the right cloud service model for you.

Genres: Technology, Technical, Computer Science, Architecture

229 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 8, 2013

Reviews

[Wen]

Skimmed to understand different cloud architectural choices, skipped the implementation tips.

[Luis Franco]

Este libro es una GRAN introducción al cómputo en la nube, cubre prácticamente todos los topicos importantes, desde el modelo de referencia del NIST, hasta cómo desarrollar una cultura de DevOps. Pasando por temas super interesantes y bien explicados como las peores prácticas de implementación en la nube, o cómo administrar los SLA, o la desmitificación de cosas como la seguridad en la nube.

En la parte de seguridad me gustó mucho la explicación clara y contundente sobre el que los proveedores de nube pueden ser totalmente seguros en su centro de datos, pero eso no significa que tu aplicación vaya a ser segura, ya que se requieren establecer los controles a nivel aplicación, tal (o incluso más estrictos) como si estuvieran en tu propio datacenter físico.

[Girish]

Fluffy overview of the cloud landscape

This is not a architecture or design reference. The author skims over typical areas of a cloud platform and design without going into any real life design aspects. Good for managers and less technical people who need to understand the landscape but need not design or implement a thing at work. If you need a good vocabulary to talk about cloud solutions, this helps. If you are jumping into designing your cloud platform or solution, look elsewhere.

[Mikhail]

Формат: Книга Язык: Английский
Книга немного устаревшая, но дает неплохой вводный материал по тому что такое IaaS, PaaS, SaaS. Достаточно доходчиво и с некоторым набором имен компаний и продуктов которые нужно запомнить.
К перечтению - возможно, по мере того какие данные потребуются в рамках текущего исследования.

[Snorlax]

A good overview of cloud computing, and it contains good paradigms about building services on cloud.
You can benefit from this book, if you don't have fundamental knowledge or working experience about cloud computing.

[Manish Kumar]

At highlevel does not goes in detail

At highlevel does not goes in detail. Covered most of the subjects but details are missing. Would like to know more

[Amine]

A good intro for non techies, the book gives an accurate management summary on cloud cloud computing paradigms

[Anbarasan Samandan]

A very good book to get an overview of cloud computing especially for people new to the cloud.
The book is balanced to allow non-technical readers to understand the concepts.

[Michal Porzozynski]

A good introduction to cloud concepts. Wanted to read something high-level enough to stop being an ignorant in this area and I do think this book is perfect for that. The book covers basic information about AWS but as you can imagine some of those details are outdated after three years from publication.

[Mathi Fonseca]

This book is a complete must-read nowadays. The hype around the cloud is over, we know it's here to stay and reading this book should be mandatory for every professional deploying apps in the cloud. Instead of focusing on "how to deploy X in the cloud", which is covered in many other technology-specific books, it conveys many other aspects that are often left aside like security, monitoring, auditing, disaster recovering, etc. And most importantly, the author never points to one platform, company or model as the undisputed best. Instead, he makes an incredibly thorough and objective comparison from many points of view, so that you can make an educated decision when it comes to designing your architecture.

[Nauman Faridi]

Very good book to get an overview of the Cloud.

[Bogdan]

Very useful for hosting/cloud people and for people that just want to try to understand the specific challenges of the cloudy stuff.

[Nisfan Nawaz]

Covers all the key concepts in the the right level of depth.