Google Cloud - Digital Leader Review

Cloud Computing Delivery Models

Public Cloud
Private Cloud
Hybrid Cloud

What does “five nines” mean in the context of high availability?

99.999% uptime

What are the three elements essential to highly available systems?

Redundancy
Monitoring
Failover

What is Disaster Recovery?

process where an organization anticipates + addresses technology-related disasters

Four Cloud Computing Models

Infrastructure as a Service

Platform as a Service

Software as a Service

Function as a Service

(IPSF - I Pee So Fun)

Infrastructure as a Service

Provides virtual services, computing resources, etc. on a pay as you go model

Consumers have the highest responsibility with this model

Platform as a Service

Provides a runtime environment that you can develop and run your applications in

Software as a Service

Applications developed to provide business value if companies don’t have the time/resources to develop internal tools

Least amount of responsibility on the consumer

Function as a Service

Typically event based triggered functions

Cloud services within Google Cloud Platform is seen as FaaS

Evolution of Cloud computing architectures

Physical Bare Metal Servers → Virtual Machines → Containers → Serverless Functions

4 Attributes needed for an organization to upgrade their infrastructure:

Innovative

Agile

Fast

Customer Focused

Virtual Machine (Google Cloud Products)

Computer Engine

VMWare

Bare Metal

Virtualization

Process that allows a physical hardware to be split into Virtual Machines

Hypervisor

Virtualization software that allows for the creation of Virtual Machines

When to use Google Compute Engine?

When you’re actively working somewhere where you regularly spin up Virtual Machines with virtualization

When to use VMWare Engine?

When shifting VMWare tech onto the cloud

When to use Bare Metal?

Specialized workloads / Oracle lift and shifts