Containers and Virtual Machines both have a role within the modern Cloud architecture. Both possess some advantages and disadvantages. The graphics below summarises the key differences: Main use case for Cloud Containerisation is application
The first public cloud service provider to achieve wide acceptance and scale was Amazon Web Services (AWS). This is an example of a true public cloud compute offering, with all the key characteristics and benefits
Cloud management systems vary greatly in their features, ease of use, flexibility, and cost. A cloud provider (or private cloud operator) can develop its own cloud management system or purchase an existing system from cloud
Most large, complex organizations, firms and business models will likely use a ‘hybrid cloud’ model. Smaller firms can use a ‘public cloud model’, where the control of the IT stack passes to the Application provider
In Cloud terms a VPN, or Virtual Private Network, is a network connection between your Amazon resources within an AWS VPC and data or services in your own local data center. Such architectures are often called
Hybrid IT model Gartner describes how the Hybrid Cloud enables an increase in the adoption of public and private IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and BPaaS, making a ‘Bi-modal IT’ framework possible: Moving to a more loosely coupled, federated
There are three basic options for firms who want to use the Cloud to improve business processes, IT support and delivery; or to handle capacity and storage. First, firms may rent the cloud infrastructure and