In this chapter we had an overview related to cloud computing terminology along with the challenges that an organization would face when they typically move their infrastructure to cloud based environments. We also looked into how virtualization has changed of servers terminology and thus has become one of the integral part of infrastructure as a service offering. With this said, there are more and more integrations that are been done between various major providers that allows clients to move their virtual machine from one provider to another in an easy manner.
Now that we have solid foundation related to cloud computing, we can now go and focus on the implementation part in the upcoming chapters with aspect in the next chapter which is really interesting because of the fact of discussion related to topics related to IPS in cloud, firewalls (stateful and stateless) as...