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Product type Paperback

Published in May 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788472425

Length 378 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Kevin L. Jackson

Goessling

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Table of Contents (29) Chapters

Title Page

Contributors

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Preface

Prologue

1. What is Cloud Computing? FREE CHAPTER

2. Governance and Change Management

3. Design Considerations

4. Business Drivers, Metrics, and Use Cases

5. Architecture Executive Decisions

6. Architecting for Transition

7. Baseline Cloud Architectures

8. Solution Reference Architectures

9. Cloud Environment Key Tenets and Virtualization

10. Cloud Clients and Key Cloud Services

11. Operational Requirements

12. CSP Performance

13. Cloud Application Development

14. Data Security

15. Application Security

16. Risk Management and Business Continuity

17. Hands-On Lab 1 – Basic Cloud Design (Single Server)

18. Hands-On Lab 2 – Advanced Cloud Design Insight

19. Hands-On Lab 3 – Optimizing Current State (12 Months Later)

20. Cloud Architecture – Lessons Learned

1. Epilogue

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Index

Cloud application components

Cloud applications consist of the software and programming language combinations used to create a web or mobile application. Software application components, client-side and server-side, are also known as frontend and backend. Each application layer builds on the features of the one below it, creating an application development stack. The following figure shows the major building blocks of a typical stack:

Server side

On the server side, three development models, or stacks, are widely used in the cloud computing industry:

LAMP stack (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP)
WISA stack (Windows/IIS/SQL Server/ASP.NET)
Java web application stack (Linux or Solaris/Tomcat/MySQL/JSP)

LAMP

LAMP is considered an open source development stack. Usually, there is no direct cost associated with licensing, installation, setup, or deployment open source software, but the process does require expertise, and without it, could be very time-consuming. There are many LAMP variations in the market. When...