Chapter 2. Cloud Design Patterns and Use Cases

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to understand the following:

• Typical application design patterns and business functions found in most enterprises today

• Which deployment model is most suitable for a given design patterns

• Typical cloud use cases

• How IaaS can be used by SaaS and PaaS services to provide greater agility and management consistency

• How to describe how IaaS forms a foundation for other cloud services models

• What a cloud consumer operating model looks like

This chapter provides an overview of the components that make up a cloud deployment, with particular emphasis on the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) service model.

Typical Design Patterns and Use Cases

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