Cloud Computing Concepts Flashcards
1
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Six Advantages of the Cloud
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- Trade capital expense for variable expense
- pay as you go
- Massive economies of scale
- usage from hundreds of thousands of customer is aggregated in the cloud resulting in AWS charging lower prices
- Stop guessing about capacity
- scale up or down based on demand
- Increase speed and agility
- IT resources a click away
- Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers
- focus on customers rather than infrastructure
- Go global in minutes
- deploy applications in multiple regions
- lower latency
2
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Public Cloud
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Cloud- based application is fully developed in the cloud and all parts of the application run in the cloud
- Examples: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
3
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Hybrid Cloud
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Way to connect infrastructure and applications between cloud-based resources and existing resources that are not located in the cloud
4
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On-premises
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Cloud managed in your own data center
- Examples: Hyper-V, OpenStack, VMware
5
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Cloud Computing
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On-demand delivery of compute power, database storage, applications and other IT resources through a cloud services platform via the Internet
