Hybrid Cloud Best Practices

In the last few chapters, we discussed the AWS and OpenStack cloud platforms, along with the administration techniques involved in using the native user interface. We also saw how we could develop application programs that leverage the services offered by these cloud platforms. In this chapter, we will focus on the best practices that should be followed when using these cloud platforms.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

• Cloud agnostic application development
• Usage of the AWS root account
• Security group configuration
• Data backup
• High availability
• Cloud monitoring 
• Cloud automation
• Cloud orchestration
• Co-location of data and applications
• Scaling
• Handling legacy applications
• Resource utilization and costs 
• Centralized cloud management
• Designing for failure
• Application decoupling

Let's begin by discussing some AWS best...