List of Tables

Chapter 1. What is cloud computing?

Table 1.1. The five main principles of cloud computing

Chapter 2. Understanding cloud computing classifications

Table 2.1. Impact of virtualization on corporate data centers

Table 2.2. Basic terms and operations of the Amazon EC2 API

Table 2.3. Basic terms and operations of Amazon S3

Table 2.4. Amazon’s SimpleDB API summary

Table 2.5. Cloud database drawbacks

Table 2.6. The components of the LAMP stack in an IaaS cloud

Table 2.7. Other Amazon cloud services (effectively providing some PaaS capabilities)

Table 2.8. A portion of the RESTful Windows Azure API

Chapter 3. The business case for cloud computing

Table 3.1. Internal IT cost calculation: assumes the existing data center, power, and bandwidth cost nothing extra

Table 3.2. Colocation cost calculation: assumes CAPEX for hardware plus OPEX for the colocation contract

Table 3.3. Managed-service cost calculation: a pure OPEX expenditure for hardware rental and contract

Table 3.4. Amazon EC2 instance size equivalents

Table 3.5. Public cloud cost calculation: pure OPEX, based on resource consumption

Chapter 4. Security and the private cloud

Table 4.1. The four primary private cloud considerations

Table 4.2. Private cloud deployment options by type

Table 4.3. Basic steps to create a virtual private cloud using EC2 API calls

Chapter 5. Designing and architecting for cloud scale