Ebook: Cloud Application Architectures: Building Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud

If you're involved in planning IT infrastructure as a network or system architect, system administrator, or developer, this book will help you adapt your skills to work with these highly scalable, highly redundant infrastructure services. Cloud Application Architectures will help you determine whether and how to put your applications into these virtualized services, with critical guidance on issues of cost, availability, performance, scaling, privacy, and security.;Cloud Application Architectures; Organization of the Material; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; We'd Like Your Feedback!; Acknowledgments; 1. Cloud Computing; Hardware; Hardware virtualization; Cloud storage; Cloud Application Architectures; Transactional Computing; The Value of Cloud Computing; The Economics; Cost comparison; The bottom line; Cloud Infrastructure Models; Infrastructure As a Service; Private Clouds; All of the Above; An Overview of Amazon Web Services; Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3); Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS).