Many organizations are moving toward the cloud to meet their availability, operations, and scalability objectives. Pay-as-you-go pricing has also become popular as many organizations choose to move beyond investing a large amount of money initially in a development track. Through this course, learn the value of cloud computing and services. Explore the differences between a physical data center and cloud-based services, as well as common cloud models and public cloud providers. Next, examine cloud case studies, customer success stories, and best practices and anti-patterns for cloud. Finally, learn about innovative cloud trends, cloud migration strategies, and trends in cloud deployment. After course completion, you'll be able to outline characteristics and strategies for cloud.

Delivering applications requires an understanding of the underlying infrastructure components. It also requires support for managed services that public cloud providers offer. Through this course, learn about common components of cloud services and how to deploy them using different methods. Discover key identity management services used to secure access to the cloud and explore virtual machine compute services. Next, learn how to deploy containerized microservices and build event-driven serverless solutions. Finally, examine cloud storage options, virtual networking features for connecting on-premises environments to the cloud, cloud infrastructure deployment management, and big data and analytics services. Upon completion, you'll be able to outline and deploy cloud components.

Maintaining cloud applications requires awareness of many operational concerns. Being able to effectively monitor and evaluate data to deliver great application experiences while identifying opportunities to optimize spending is key. Through this course, examine the practices and tools used to meet monitoring, cost, and compliance requirements when managing cloud-native applications. Learn how to audit activity in cloud environments and the benefits of cloud provider compliance services. Next, explore resource usage metering and measuring and event-driven approaches to proactively manage operational issues. Finally, discover how to add observability to applications and optimize spending with cost analysis tools. After course completion, you'll be able to outline how to fulfill cloud cost, monitoring, and compliance requirements.