Cloud Application Architectures: Building Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud

• Understand the differences between traditional deployment and cloud computing
• Determine whether moving existing applications to the cloud makes technical and business sense
• Analyze and compare the long-term costs of cloud services, traditional hosting, and owning dedicated servers
• Learn how to build a transactional web application for the cloud or migrate one to it
• Understand how the cloud helps you better prepare for disaster recovery
• Change your perspective on application scaling

To provide realistic examples of the book's principles in action, the author delves into some of the choices and operations available on Amazon Web Services, and includes high-level summaries of several of the other services available on the market today.

Cloud Application Architectures provides best practices that apply to every available cloud service. Learn how to make the transition to the cloud and prepare your web applications to succeed.