SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

CLOUD COMPUTING
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NAME:MADHURA S
SRN:R21EJ112
CLASS:CSIT
SECTION:B
FACULTY:DR.MUTHIREDDY
COURSE NAME:CLOUD SERVICES
CERTIFICATION FROM:INFOSYS
SPRINGBOARD
About the course:
In this course,I explored fundamentals of cloud computing,such as cloud
models, hosting options and security basics. I examined the benefits of moving
to the cloud, andcloud components, and service models. Then explored the
different cloud computing roles, and differentiate between on-premises and
cloud implementations.Next, I examined different cloud service models
including Infrastructure as a Service, Software as a Service,and Platform as a
Service.Moving on,I examined the advantages and disadvantages of various
cloud implementations including private, public,hybrid, and community
clouds.Lastly, I explored risks and benefits of migrating to the cloud, as well as
talking about common cloud vulnerabilities that you should be aware of.

Benefits of moving to the cloud:

Organizations looking at moving to the cloud,means that they will have to
consider some of the migration options to migratedata that they might currently
host on-premises into the cloud,or migrating applications are currently run on-
premises in the cloud,and also, any servers that theyhave running on-premises
that might serve upfiles or that might actually run application workloadscan also
potentially be migratedinto the cloud computing environment.Now with cloud
migration,you can either migrate from your existing on-premises
environment.But at the same time if you're already using cloud computing,you
might consider migratingfrom an existing cloud service provider,to a new cloud
service provider.Now the benefits of moving to the cloud would include first of
all,reduced infrastructure expenses.At least compared to what you might have to
do on-premises.On-premises, you have capital expenditures related to
purchasingthe hardware to create the supporting IT infrastructure.Things like
physical servers, storage arrays, UPS backup systems.However, in the cloud
that's done by the cloud service provider.Another benefit of moving to the
cloud,is minimizing capacity boundary issues.Cloud providers have the benefit
of economies of scale where they havesuch a vast pool of resources made
available to cloud customers.They can offer it at a reducedcharge compared to
what we would have to do if wewere doing this ourselves entirely on-
premises.The other thing is that when you run out of capacityon-premises such
as storage,you have to then acquire additional hardware andconfigure it to have
that additional storage available.
Cloud computing Roles:
There are a number of definable roleswhen it comes to a cloud computing
ecosystem.The first role is the cloud service provider, otherwise called as
CSP.Where they bearmuch of the responsibility for making sure that the
underlyinginfrastructure supporting cloud services remains up and running,and
that things perform well according to SLAs for cloud services.Also at the CSP
level,they have the ultimate configuration flexibilitybecause they control the
actual physical hardware,the physical servers, the physical storage arrays,the
physical network switches and routers, and so onin their data centers.Cloud
consumers also called cloud customers or cloud tenants,have a multitude of
different cloud modelsthey can work with in terms of offerings.So developers,
for example,will be interested in platform as a service or PaaS,which would be
useful for developing custom apps.So the cloud service providerhas offerings
that facilitate those tasks.Next, we have common office staff orend users that
would be interested primarilyin Software as a Service or SaaS.For example,
using cloud-based email or office productivitytools like spreadsheets and word
processors, all in the cloud.In other words, having that software delivered over a
network.At the IT level, then we have Infrastructure as a Service or IaaS.This
would be for cloud administrators or cloud technicians thatwould be responsible
for determining which cloudservices need to be deployed,and then deploying
and managing those cloud services.Things like virtual machines or
applications,custom applications, running in the cloud and allocating storage
andcontrolling access to all of those cloud resources.So that's really part of the
IT support team's responsibilities.

Cloud Service Models:

Infrastructure as a Service or IaaS is a cloud computing service model that
allows for self service,and that is actually a cloud computing characteristic,self
service or self provisioning of cloud based resources.This also includes not only
the provisioning, butthe monitoring of deployed resources,and also having
access to them, such as being able to use SSH to remotely administer a Linux
deployed virtual machine in the cloud.So compute would include things like
virtual machines.Networking would includethings like virtual network
definitions in the cloudinto which virtual machines are deployed,and also the
configuring of cloud-based storage.All of these items are configured compute
infrastructure.Of course, at the end of the day in the data center,these are all
based on underlying physical hardware.But the underlying physical hardware is
the responsibilityof the cloud service provider.

Software as a service, or SaaS,otherwise called SaaS, is another form of cloud

computing.It's another cloud service model that's often referred to ascloud
application services.Arguably, it's the most common way thatcloud computing
gets used by a vastnumber of users, such as those using cloud-based email
oreven personal cloud storageand of course, at the enterprise level as well.So
what happens with software as a serviceis we have prepackaged softwarethat's
ready to use that's made available over a network,such as the Internet.The
vendor, in this context,the cloud service provider, is responsible formanaging
the underlying infrastructurethat supports the SaaS solution.So the underlying
data storage,the underlying servers that run the software.One of the great
advantagesabout software as a service is rapid elasticity.So in the example of
cloud-based email, if your organization hires tennew employees,you can very
quickly provision new cloud-based email accounts,and not have to worry about
licensing, and so on, in the cloud.Now, they do have to be licensed,but it's
already available immediately andconveniently with the cloud provider
solution.Scalability is another advantage.As things get busy,scaling adds more
underlying compute horsepower tohandle the increased workload.That, in this
context,with software as a service would be the responsibilityof the cloud
service provider.There would be a service level agreement,or an SLA for the
specific servicesuch as cloud-based email,a guaranteed level of performance
and uptime.Another advantage of software as a service is integration.For
example, you might be able to integrate previous used software like email on
premises and import messages orarchives into the cloud, but it really dependson
the specific SaaS solution.

Platform-as-a-Service, or PaaS,is yet another cloud service model.It's also called

cloud platform services.This one serves as a great frameworkfor software
developers and testers,which we'll explore in further detail soon.So the
infrastructurethat supports platform as a service is managed by a third party.Of
course, in this context,that third party is the cloud service provider.So
developers then can leverage,platform as a service solutions in the cloud
tocreate and test softwareand also deliver it to users of that software.A lot of
this can be automated.For example, when a developer checksin a new code
change that can triggera series of tests to automaticallybe run against that for
quality assurance,and upon successful testing,then the software could be
packaged up andthrough a push notification sent out to mobile devices
orautomatically published on a website for download.A lot of that can be
automated.Some advantages of platform as a service,it's scalable because it's
running on cloud provider equipment,and cloud providers pool resources
together for useby cloud customers.It's highly available,that's especially true
when you start configuringreplication of your cloud based data to alternate
locations.It's highly customizable,and that comes at many different levels.

Public Cloud:
A public cloud,is accessible over a network such as the Public Internet,or even
through a Dedicated Circuitfrom an organization's on-premises networkto the
cloud without going over the Internet.But either way, public cloud
computingmakes shared resources available to subscribers.This would include
things like virtual machine servers,storage in the cloud,network configurations,
even VPN solutions going to the cloud.All of this can be provisionedthrough
cloud computing in a public sense,as well as the use of software
applications.Things like Office 365 or Google Documents or Google
Classroom.

Hybrid Cloud:
A Hybrid Cloud computing model,combines both private and public
clouds.Where a private cloud refers toprivate infrastructure owned and used by
a single organization,that follows cloud computing characteristics,such as
metered usage, self-provisioning and so on,as well as using public cloud
provider solutions.But a hybrid cloud can also mean that you are linking
youron-premises IT infrastructure with the public cloud.Examples of this would
include,using a site-to-site VPN,between your on-premises network and the
cloud.Essentially, extending your on-premises network environmentinto the
cloud environment or even linkingyour on-premises identity store likeMicrosoft
Active Directory with Active Directory in the cloud,to allow users to sign-in
oncewith their on-premises credentials, yetstill be authorized to use cloud
apps.So there are a number of variations then on what a hybrid cloud is.
Community Cloud:
A community cloud,is used amongst organizations that have similar IT
needs.Such as similar underlying compute requirements, perhaps forgraphics
processing.Similar storage requirements, such as within national
boundaries.Similar security requirements,such as the protection of sensitive
data,using very specific tools and methods,and also scalability.So in essence, a
community cloud is cloud computing, butit's kind of a subset of it where it's a
little bit morespecialized and caters to more specific needs.So community cloud
characteristics include a shared infrastructure.Well, this is true with all cloud
computing models except for private.

Conclusion:
So in this course, we've examined cloud computing fundamentals,including
cloud models, hosting options, and security basics.We did this by exploringthe
benefits of moving to the cloud, cloud components,and service models, the
different cloud computing roles,the differences between on-premises versus
cloud implementations.We also took a look at Infrastructure as a
service,software as a service,and platform as a service, cloud service models.We
discussed the advantages and disadvantages of cloud implementations.Now that
would include public and private,hybrid, and community clouds.

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