Preface

Cloud computing came into our world in 2006, about 60 years after the first computer emerged. Cloud computing provides a brand-new concept of computing power services such as elastic, self-provisioning, and on-demand. In a traditional computing data center model, computing infrastructure is conceived as physical hardware with space, compute and network equipment, admin staff, physical security, and capital expenditure – entailing a long procurement cycle, big maintenance costs, and a lumbering structure. The new cloud computing model builds the computing infrastructure as software that matches your business needs: provisioning and terminating computing resources on-demand, scaling the computing resources up and down elastically and automatically, deploying the cloud resources as immutable code with version control, and paying for what you use.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) was the first cloud service, followed by Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). These are the three main clouds that are dominating the world, and this book helps you to learn about and master all of them and build a successful career in cloud computing.