CLOUD ARCHITECTURE
Architecting the cloud deployment whether you are just starting or already in a mature state is required to ensure you are getting the maximum benefits of the cloud. Cloud provides flexibility, scalability, availability, and elasticity.
While these tenants are delivered by all cloud providers but essentially when you use it as a customer it still needs to be adapted, integrated, and customized to your needs while ensuring that you receive the cost benefits that you initially expected with security considered at all the levels of access and data at rest
Cloud security is as essential as any other security need of organizations. Recent trends and security breaches are pointing more toward the cloud as compared to the on-premise infrastructure.
While all the cloud providers ensure that they secure the infrastructure in their control, cloud security is a shared responsibility based on the type of cloud service that you use.
In most organizations cloud started as a shadow IT, typically by the developers, in the early days of the cloud adoption. Organizations later started a complete mainstream adoption. But eventually it grows up to a level where the recurring cost starts outweighing the true benefits of the cloud.
To maintain the balance or spending right while ensuring the business benefits is more of a cultural change rather than an excel sheet exercise or using the provider tools to control the cost. It requires a top down approach, strong collaboration, communication, understanding the technology
The enormous benefits of the cloud computing can be leveraged with Private cloud, whether it is for your own consumption or for your clients. Architecting and designing a private cloud for Infrastructure As a Service cloud can be complex if not planned correctly.
Right from the thorough understanding of the application and workloads to be hosted, The compute, Storage, Network, Security, availability, and performance requirements along with the choice of the virtualization and private cloud platform.
As the cloud practice matures and the actual needs are properly identified, many customers choose to go the Hybrid cloud way. Which is essentially running the private cloud along with the public cloud, by factoring the sensitive, and non-sensitive workloads
Similarly, Multi-Cloud is a reality with almost all cloud consumers, whether it is a combination of IaaS, SaaS, or any combination of the cloud providers for various reasons including cost, services, security, compliance, and so on.
Whether it is a multi-cloud or Hybrid cloud, it needs to be architected well for performance and security aspects.
