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Understanding the concepts of Cloud starts with understanding the fundamentals. On your way to mastery, it's crucial for you to understand how certain concepts were derived, and why things work like they do. Starting with these resources is the best way to do so.
There is a wealth of experience-based insights shared in this book. It thoroughly covers all aspects of cloud adoption including cloud strategy, technology, and organizational/cultural change. The book will be useful for organizations that are just starting out with cloud or that are looking to health check the status of their cloud adoption journey. I highly recommend this book.
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In a friendly, easy-to-follow style, Cloud Computing For Dummies, 2nd Edition demystifies the Cloud’s virtual landscape, breaking up a complex and multi-layered topic into simple explanations that will make the various benefits clear and ultimately guide you toward making the most appropriate choices for your organization.
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Starting with a clear definition of what cloud computing is, why it is, and its pros and cons, Cloud Computing Bible is a wide-ranging and complete reference. You'll get thoroughly up to speed on cloud platforms, infrastructure, services and applications, security, and much more.
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Amazon Web Services in Action introduces you to computing, storing, and networking in the AWS cloud. The book will teach you about the most important services on AWS. You will also learn about best practices regarding automation, security, high availability, and scalability.
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This book presents a mental model for cloud-native applications, along with the patterns, practices, and tooling that set them apart.
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Changes that Heal by Dr. Henry Cloud is an excellent resource helping readers do four things that, if left undone, can leave adults feeling stuck for years, never reaching mature adulthood. Cloud argues that adults most bond with others, separate from others, sort out issues of good and bad, and take charge as an adult. With Scriptural references, physiological research and helpful stories, Cl…
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These books are not required for you to learn Cloud, but they are highly recommended for you to deepen your knowledge.
Simply put, cloud computing is the delivery of computing services—including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence—over the Internet (“the cloud”) to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale.
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You may regard cloud computing as an ideal way for your company to control IT costs, but do you know how private and secure this service really is? Not many people do. With Cloud Security and Privacy, you'll learn what's at stake when you trust your data to the cloud, and what you can do to keep your virtual infrastructure and web applications secure.
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What's it about? This book is about Kubernetes, a platform for deploying and managing containerized applications at scale, and covers topics such as architecture, core concepts, security, and cloud-native concepts.
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Cloud cuckoo land is a state of absurdly, over-optimistic fantasy or an unrealistically idealistic state of mind where everything appears to be perfect.
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Necessary Endings by Henry Cloud is a guide to identifying and letting go of relationships, habits, and situations that hold us back from growth. It provides tools for thriving in life and finding new opportunities when faced with necessary endings.
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You've got your basics in order – time to move on to some advanced and specialized concepts. Cloud is evolving every day, these books can help you master it.
Netflix, Expedia, and other well-known websites owe much of its success to AWS. This explains why some of the rapidly growing companies are incorporating AWS into their businesses.
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