Cloud Application Architectures

If you design, build, or maintain web applications that might be deployed into the cloud, this book is for you

Much is said about the advantages and risks of cloud computing, but how do you actually create a web application for this environment or migrate existing applications to it? With this book, you'll learn the programming and system administration skills necessary to build and support applications in the cloud, using transactional apps for customer orders and payments as a practical example.

If you're involved in planning IT infrastructure as a network or system architect, system administrator, or developer, this book will help you adapt your skills to work with the highly scalable, highly redundant infrastructure services offered by Amazon and other providers

With Cloud Application Architectures, you will:
- Understand the differences between traditional deployment and cloud computing in areas such as reliability, security, and the ability to predict load and capacity
- Determine whether moving existing applications to the cloud makes technical and business sense
- Build a transactional web application and set up virtual server to support it
- Learn how the cloud helps you better for disaster recovery
- See how cloud computing changes your perspective on application scaling