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Doing Digital
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Doing Digital

by Ved Sen
January 2023
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
270 pages
6h 1m
English
Business Expert Press
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CHAPTER 10

Digital Infrastructure: Cloud

What do you call a sheep without legs?—A cloud!

—John Bishop and Jose Mourinho charity sketch.

Never mind the sheep, to think of a digital service today without a cloud-based architecture is like a table with a leg missing. To be fair, it’s not just cloud, but the layer we should think of as Digital infrastructure or the invisible part of any digital solution. This includes cloud, middleware, and security. In this chapter, let’s focus on cloud services.

What Is It?

The easiest way to think about cloud services is to think about computing power on tap. Just like electricity. You don’t have to generate your own power, or have your own generator, for which you would have to determine up front how much power ...

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ISBN: 9781637424100