Cloud Foundations | Cloudopia

📄️What is cloud computing?

Understand what cloud computing is, how it works, and the decisions cloud professionals make.

Understand the technical and economic pressures that led to cloud computing.

Exploring the four foundational aisles of cloud computing: Compute, Storage, Networking, and Security.

Learn how public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments differ and how to choose between them.

Understanding Capital Expenditure vs. Operational Expenditure: buying a car vs. taking an on-demand taxi.

Meet the big three tech supermarkets: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

How cloud billing works: paying only for the electricity and water you actually use.

Understand scalability, elasticity, autoscaling, and the limits of changing cloud capacity.

Understand IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, from basic definitions to real-world trade-offs and architecture decisions.

Learn how cloud regions and availability zones affect latency, placement, and failure recovery.

Master the Shared Responsibility Model, IAM, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and Resource Locks.

Learn how cloud data centers provide computing resources and isolate physical failures.

Learn how to measure availability and design cloud systems that continue operating through failures.

Understand how cloud systems protect stored data from loss, corruption, deletion, and infrastructure failure.

Understand how cloud security and compliance responsibilities are divided between providers and customers.

Master VPCs/VNets, subnets, IP addresses, firewalls, load balancers, VPN gateways, and CDNs.

Understand how points of presence reduce latency and deliver caching, routing, and security near users.

Learn when to process data near users or devices and how to operate secure edge workloads.

Understand how cloud virtual machines work, how they are managed, and when to use them.

Understand how virtualization abstracts physical resources into isolated, flexible computing environments.

Learn how hypervisors create, isolate, schedule, and manage virtual machines.

Master Object, Block, and File storage, along with Hot, Cool, and Archive temperature tiers.

Learn how to connect cloud spending with business value, total cost, and continuous FinOps practices.