Introduction

In the mad rush to move our IT infrastructure over to cloud platforms, it’s important to remember that “the cloud” is more than a bunch of servers sitting in someone else’s building rather than your own. This brand-new world has some brand-new rules. Although some of the things you’ll do on a public or private cloud work much the same as they do locally, unless you learn to design with a cloud mentality, you’ll likely miss many of the biggest benefits... particularly as your deployments grow to enterprise scale.

The three chapters that make up this e-book highlight three ways that smart design feeds successful cloud deployments. The principles you’ll encounter here can help you squeeze greater efficiency and effectiveness from your cloud infrastructure.

Static or elastic? Coupled or decoupled dependencies? Public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid? If you’re planning a cloud deployment of any kind, these questions stare you in the face. Read on and learn how to answer them.