Chapter 9
Dealing with Hybrid Cloud Environments
IN THIS CHAPTER
Getting to know public clouds
Recognizing the benefits of private clouds
Taking advantage of hybrid clouds
Learning (and overcoming) the challenges of hybrid clouds
Migrating to a hybrid cloud environment
Working with ready-made packages
Not all clouds are created equal. You’re probably already using a public cloud of some sort. You may be using one of the larger commercial clouds such as Amazon AWS or Google Cloud, for example, or perhaps you back up your photos from your iPhone on iCloud. Data is processed and stored in the cloud more often than you can imagine. Most large Internet applications reside in the cloud, partly for their storage ability and partly so that the services will be geographically close to you. As the need for cloud computing has grown to be an almost ubiquitous part of any computing strategy, ...
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