Cloud Computing Essentials

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Cloud Computing Essentials

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Topics
• Introduction to Cloud Computing
• Cloud certifications
• FAQ’s

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Introduction to Cloud computing

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Cloud Computing Concepts
• “Cloud computing is shared pools of configurable computer system resources and higher-
level services that can be rapidly provisioned with minimal management effort, often over
the Internet.”
-- Wikipedia

• The NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) defines “Cloud Computing” as:

“Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network

access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage,
applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal
management effort or service provider interaction.” (Ubiquitous: available everywhere,
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Cloud Computing Concepts Continued…

• Cloud computing providers own

and maintain the network-
connected hardware required for
these application services, while
you provision and use what you
need for your workloads.
• Cloud computing is an approach
that uses the efficient pooling of
an on-demand, self-managed,
virtual infrastructure.

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Deployment models: Private Cloud and Public Cloud

• The traditional cloud model is referred to as

the public cloud.
• The Public cloud resources (like servers and
storage) are owned and operated by a third-party
cloud service provider and delivered over the
Internet.
• For example, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon AWS,
Azure from Microsoft.

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Deployment models: Private Cloud and Public Cloud Continued…

• In addition to a public cloud model, businesses can also

use a private cloud where the infrastructure is dedicated
to them.
• Private clouds are pools of resources dedicated to a single
enterprise, within a company – for private use.
• Often used by government agencies, financial institutions, any
other mid- to large-size organizations with business-critical
operations
• Finally, a hybrid cloud model represents a mixture of
public and private cloud models.
• Bring Cloud services to your datacenter
• Often called “the best of both worlds,” hybrid clouds combine
on-premises infrastructure, or private clouds, with public
clouds so organizations can reap the advantages of both. 7
• Example: Google Anthos, AWS Outposts, Azure Stack

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Cloud Services: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
Cloud-computing providers offer their "services" according to
different models, which happen to form a stack

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Why Cloud?

Cloud lowers the “Total Cost of Ownership”

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Look inside a Cloud datacenter
• New-age equipment: Data centers have been witness to
migration from rack servers to blade and blade-like servers.
• A current trend is the convergence or hyper convergence of
servers and storage into a single box, which is being driven by
the availability of solid-state drives.

• Inside a Google data center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZmGGAbHqa0

• Microsoft Datacenter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jklIWv2isJg
• Microsoft's underwater datacenter: Project Natick (Feb 2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2oJw1a_qEM
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• AWS Virginia Datacenter (watch @2:15 min):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94PO2-TL4Vs

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Exploring available cloud providers
Gartner’s Magic Quadrant : • Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide:
Gartner has positioned the Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and
: Google in the Leaders Quadrant in the Magic Quadrant for Cloud
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform Services

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Microsoft Azure
• Launched: February 1, 2010; 11 years ago
• Azure was announced in October 2008 and released on 1 February 2010 as Windows Azure, before being renamed
to Microsoft Azure on 25 March 2014. As of now in 202 – is available in 60+ Azure regions around the world and in
140 countries

60 Geographic Regions

140+ Available in countries

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Azure Services
• More than 600 services in Compute, Networking, analytics, IoT, Containers, Security,
Monitoring and management categories.
• Complete list here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Launched: March 2006; 15 years

ago.
• In 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
began offering IT infrastructure
services to businesses in the form of
web services -- now commonly known
as cloud computing.

80+ Availability Zones

25+ Geographic Regions

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https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/
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AWS Services and Categories
• AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload
• More than 4900 features/services, adding more every day!
• Visit: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/

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Google Cloud Platform

• Launched: April 7, 2008; 13 years ago

• Google is an internet-centric provider of technology and services. Google has had an a PaaS offering
since 2008, but did not enter the cloud IaaS market until Google Compute Engine was launched in
June 2012 (with general availability in December 2013).
• Google groups its IaaS data centers into regions, each of which contains at least three zones (data
centers).

76+ Zones

25+ Geographic Regions

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144+ Network edge locations

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GCP services
• GCP has a well-implemented, reliable and performant core of fundamental IaaS and
PaaS capabilities — including an increasing number of unique and innovative capabilities
— even though its scope of services is not as broad as that of the other market leaders.
• Google has been most differentiated on the forward edge of IT, with deep investments in
analytics and ML, and many customers who choose Google for strategic adoption have
applications that are anchored by BigQuery.
• https://cloud.google.com/pricing/

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Cloud certifications

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Cloud certifications
New Role-based Certifications
• Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals = AZ-900

• Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate = AZ-104

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/azure-administrator.aspx

• Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert = AZ-303 + AZ-304

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/azure-solutions-architect.aspx

• Azure Developer = AZ-204

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/azure-developer.aspx

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More certifications are expected, such as for Security or DevOps specialization.
Please refer updated list here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/browse-all-certifications.aspx?certificationtype=role-based
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• AWS Certifications: AWS Certifications enable you to gain recognition for your knowledge
and skills in working with AWS services.
• More details are here: https://aws.amazon.com/certification/
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Cloud certifications Continued…

• Become Google Cloud Certified and show the world that you can design,
develop, manage and administer application infrastructure and data
solutions on Google Cloud technology.
• More details are here: https://cloud.google.com/certification/

Exams on Google cloud track:

• Associate Cloud Engineer
• Professional Cloud Architect
• Professional Data Engineer
• Professional Cloud Developer
• Professional Cloud Network Engineer
• Professional Cloud Security Engineer
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