Common cloud concepts

In this section, we need to cover common cloud concepts and some misconceptions that still exist today. There is a base level of understanding regarding cloud computing and cloud providers that a CSA needs to provide workloads that are optimized for cost, availability, supportability, performance, and security. The following topics will be discussed to achieve a base level of understanding for a CSA.

Today, there are many cloud computing providers globally. As identified previously, AWS (https://aws.amazon.com), Microsoft Azure (https://www.azure.com), and GCP (https://cloud.google.com) are the three top providers by market share. There are other providers in the cloud computing space, such as IBM, Oracle, Salesforce, and Alibaba, but this book will focus on the top three since the skills are completely transferrable from one cloud provider to another unless otherwise mentioned.

Cloud service models

Within cloud computing, three common cloud service models...