Advanced DevOps

Cloud Services

AWS, GCP, Azure fundamentals and deployment patterns.

Cloud Computing

Cloud platforms provide on-demand infrastructure, reducing the need to manage physical servers.

Major Providers

  • AWS: Market leader, most services
  • Google Cloud: Strong in data/ML
  • Azure: Enterprise and Microsoft integration
  • Cloudflare: Edge computing focus

Service Categories

  • Compute: EC2, Lambda, Cloud Run
  • Storage: S3, Cloud Storage, Blob
  • Database: RDS, DynamoDB, Cloud SQL
  • Networking: VPC, Load Balancers, CDN

Deployment Options

  • IaaS: Virtual machines (full control)
  • PaaS: Managed platforms (Heroku, Vercel)
  • Serverless: Functions (Lambda, Cloudflare Workers)
  • Containers: Kubernetes, ECS, Cloud Run

Infrastructure as Code

  • Terraform: Multi-cloud IaC
  • Pulumi: IaC with programming languages
  • AWS CDK: AWS-specific IaC