The Self-Taught Cloud Computing Engineer

Preface

Cloud computing came into our world in 2006, about 60 years after the first computer emerged. Cloud computing provides a brand-new concept of computing power services such as elastic, self-provisioning, and on-demand. In a traditional computing data center model, computing infrastructure is conceived as physical hardware with space, compute and network equipment, admin staff, physical security, and capital expenditure – entailing a long procurement cycle, big maintenance costs, and a lumbering structure. The new cloud computing model builds the computing infrastructure as software that matches your business needs: provisioning and terminating computing resources on-demand, scaling the computing resources up and down elastically and automatically, ...