Cloud Application Architectures
Subtitle: Building Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Sebastopol
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780596555481
Subjects: Internet programming; Cloud computing
Description: 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. Cloud Application Architectures will help you determine whether and how to put your applications into these virtualized services, with critical guidance on issues of cost, availability, performance, scaling, privacy, and security.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cloud Application Architectures; Organization of the Material; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; We'd Like Your Feedback!; Acknowledgments; 1. Cloud Computing; Hardware; Hardware virtualization; Cloud storage; Cloud Application Architectures; Transactional Computing; The Value of Cloud Computing; The Economics; Cost comparison; The bottom line; Cloud Infrastructure Models; Infrastructure As a Service; Private Clouds; All of the Above; An Overview of Amazon Web Services; Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3); Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS).; title: Amazon CloudFrontAmazon SimpleDB; 2. Amazon Cloud Computing; BitTorrent; S3 in Action; Amazon EC2; EC2 Access; Instance Setup; Access to an Instance; Security Groups; Availability Zones; Static IP Addresses; Data Storage in EC2; Volume management; Snapshots; AMI Management; 3. Before the Move into the Cloud; The Shift to a Cloud Cost Model; A Sample Cloud ROI Analysis; Where the Cloud Saves Money; Service Levels for Cloud Applications; What constitutes.