Cloud Computing Demystified for Aspiring Professionals

An easy-to-follow guide that helps you get an in-depth knowledge of the cloud computing concepts and apply them to accelerate your career in any cloud engineering role in no time!

Key Features

• Step-by-step tutorials on important cloud computing concepts, cloud service providers, and best practices
• Provides demonstrations for cloud computing models using real-world examples
• Educate the novice cloud practitioners how to effectively adopt to self-paced learning

Book Description

Cloud computing, a modern infrastructure for all technologies and services being used across every industry, is an essential domain to master. If you want to upskill yourself in cloud computing domains to thrive in the present and future IT industry, then you're at the right place.

Cloud Computing Demystified for Aspiring Professionals is a compendious volume focused on educating you on how to master cloud computing essentials required to prepare for accreditation in order to succeed in a cloud-centric job role.

This book will begin with an overview of transformation from traditional to a modern day cloud computing infrastructure. You'll be enlightened about the various types and models of cloud computing. Then you'll learn how to plan and implement infrastructure services, platform services and configure software-as-a-service using step-by-step demonstrations and optimization recommendations derived from certified experts in the industry. With simple language, hands-on tutorials, self-assessment questions, and real-world case studies, the book will help you understand the applications of important technologies related to cloud computing offered by cloud service providers.

After reading this book, you will learn and implement the cloud computing standardized concepts, services and best practice methods at your workplace successfully.

What you will learn

• Understand cloud computing essentials and its applications in various industries
• Gain Insights about cloud deployment models - public, private, hybrid and multi cloud
• Explore the core cloud computing services such IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
• Discover the major public cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft and Google
• Unlock the power of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS with AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Create secure networks, compute, database and API services on cloud
• Develop industry-based cloud solutions using real-world examples
• Get recommendations on exam-prep for cloud accreditations

Who This Book Is For

The book is intended for those aspiring to become cloud IT professionals or cloud engineers. Basic understanding of networking concepts like IP addressing, client and server devices and communication protocols and experience in any programming language will be helpful for using this book.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Cloud Computing
2. Unveiling the Cloud
3. Understanding the Benefits of Public Clouds (AWS, Azure, and GCP)
4. Developing Infrastructure services using public cloud providers (IaaS)
5. Developing platform services using public cloud providers (PaaS)
6. Utilizing Turnkey Software Services for Agility (SaaS)
7. Developing Virtual Network Resources for Security
8. Developing Compute Service Resources for Scalability
9. Developing Storage Service Resources for Redundancy
10. Developing Database Service Resources for Throughput
11. Implementing Native Security Compliance Controls
12. Utilizing Management API Tools
13. Mastering Continuous Training Programs
14. Milestones and Growth in Cloud Computing