Contents
Chapter 1: Why Cloud, Why Now?
Start-Up Case Study: Instagram, from Zero to a Billion Overnight
Established Company Case Study: Netflix, Shifting from On-Premises to the Cloud
Government Case Study: NOAA, E-mail, and Collaboration in the Cloud
Not-for-Profit Case Study: Obama Campaign, Six-Month Shelf-Life with One Big Peak
Chapter 2: Cloud Service Models
Chapter 3: Cloud Computing Worst Practices
Avoiding Failure When Moving to the Cloud
Migrating Applications to the Cloud
Misinformed about Cloud Security
Selecting a Favorite Vendor, Not an Appropriate Vendor
Outages and Out-of-Business Scenarios
Underestimating the Impacts of Organizational Change
Misunderstanding Customer Requirements
Chapter 4: It Starts with Architecture
The Importance of Why, Who, What, Where, When, and How
Start with the Business Architecture
Identify the Problem Statement (Why)
Evaluate User Characteristics (Who)
Identify Business and Technical Requirements (What)
Visualize the Service Consumer Experience (Where)
Identify the Project Constraints (When and with What)
Understand Current State Constraints (How)
Chapter 5: Choosing the Right Cloud Service Model
Considerations When Choosing a Cloud Service Model
Chapter 6: The Key to the Cloud
The Challenges of Migrating Legacy Systems to the Cloud
Chapter 7: Auditing in the Cloud
Chapter 8: Data Considerations in the Cloud
Chapter 9: Security Design in the Cloud
The Truth about Data in the Cloud
Responsibilities for Each Cloud Service Model
Chapter 10: Creating a Centralized Logging Strategy
Chapter 12: Monitoring Strategies
Proactive vs. Reactive Monitoring
Monitoring Strategies by Category
Monitoring by Cloud Service Level
Chapter 13: Disaster Recovery Planning
Disaster Recovery Strategies for IaaS
Recovering from a Disaster in the Primary Data Center
Disaster Recovery Strategies for PaaS
Disaster Recovery Strategies for SaaS
Disaster Recovery Hybrid Clouds
Chapter 14: Leveraging a DevOps Culture to Deliver Software Faster and More Reliably
Developing the DevOps Mind-Set
Measure, Monitor, and Experiment
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
Chapter 15: Assessing the Organizational Impact of the Cloud Model