Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions

Deployment models for executives

Once the organization chooses a cloud service mode, relevant metrics are selected, and targeted values finalized, the architect must then determine the appropriate recommendations for deployment and implementation styles. Each service model may have multiple deployment and implementation models. For example, IaaS is a service model. Within that model, infrastructure is deployed in many ways, including private, public, dedicated, or shared. The deployment of public cloud infrastructure services can traverse many different configuration options as well as different consumption and economic models.

Organizational risk tolerance drives cloud deployment model selection. Risk domains cut across operational, economic, ...