If you're involved in planning IT infrastructure as a network or system architect, system administrator, or developer, this book will help you adapt your skills to work with these highly scalable, highly redundant infrastructure services.
While analysts hotly debate the advantages and risks of cloud computing, IT staff and programmers are left to determine whether and how to put their applications into these virtualized services. Cloud Application Architectures provides answers -- and critical guidance -- on issues of cost, availability, performance, scaling, privacy, and security.
With Cloud Application Architectures, you will:
Understand the differences between traditional deployment and cloud computing
Determine whether moving existing applications to the cloud makes technical and business sense
Analyze and compare the long-term costs of cloud services, traditional hosting, and owning dedicated servers
Learn how to build a transactional web application for the cloud or migrate one to it
Understand how the cloud helps you better prepare for disaster recovery
Change your perspective on application scaling
To provide realistic examples of the book's principles in action, the author delves into some of the choices and operations available on Amazon Web Services, and includes high-level summaries of several of the other services available on the market today.
Cloud Application Architectures provides best practices that apply to every available cloud service. Learn how to make the transition to the cloud and prepare your web applications to succeed.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface;
Audience for This Book;
Organization of the Material;
Conventions Used in This Book;
Using Code Examples;
Safari® Books Online;
We'd Like Your Feedback!;
Acknowledgments;
Chapter 1: Cloud Computing;
1.1 The Cloud;
1.2 Cloud Application Architectures;
1.3 The Value of Cloud Computing;
1.4 Cloud Infrastructure Models;
1.5 An Overview of Amazon Web Services;
Chapter 2: Amazon Cloud Computing;
2.1 Amazon S3;
2.2 Amazon EC2;
Chapter 3: Before the Move into the Cloud;
3.1 Know Your Software Licenses;
3.2 The Shift to a Cloud Cost Model;
3.3 Service Levels for Cloud Applications;
3.4 Security;
3.5 Disaster Recovery;
Chapter 4: Ready for the Cloud;
4.1 Web Application Design;
4.2 Machine Image Design;
4.3 Privacy Design;
4.4 Database Management;
Chapter 5: Security;
5.1 Data Security;
5.2 Network Security;
5.3 Host Security;
5.4 Compromise Response;
Chapter 6: Disaster Recovery;
6.1 Disaster Recovery Planning;
6.2 Disasters in the Cloud;
6.3 Disaster Management;
Chapter 7: Scaling a Cloud Infrastructure;
7.1 Capacity Planning;
7.2 Cloud Scale;
Amazon Web Services Reference;
Amazon EC2 Command-Line Reference;
Amazon EC2 Tips;
GoGrid;
Types of Clouds;
Cloudcenters in Detail;
Comparing Approaches;
What's Right for You?;
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Rackspace;
Rackspace's Cloud Services;
Fully Integrated, Backed by Fanatical Support;
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Colophon;
