Cloud Computing Architecture
Duration:
1 Teaching Period
Unit Code:
COS20019
Contact Hours:
Recommended 10 hours of study per week
About this unit
Students will use a cloud platform to create well-architected deployments of distributed applications that are secure, scalable, reliable and cost optimised.
Content
- Cloud Computing features, models of deployment and platforms
- Cloud services for computation, data storage, security and networking
- Using a cloud management console to configure cloud services on a distributed cloud platform
- Setting up virtual servers and files systems on a cloud platform
- Creating a secure network of services in a Virtual Private Cloud
- User identity management and access control
- Data storage and database services in the cloud
- Automated monitoring, scaling and load balancing of services
- Infrastructure setup automation
- Web content distribution and caching
- Server-less cloud computing
- Architectures for highly available solutions.