Table of Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 About This Book ........................................................................ 2 Foolish Assumptions ................................................................. 2 How This Book Is Organized .................................................... 3 Icons Used in This Book............................................................ 4 Chapter 1: Understanding Cloud Fundamentals and the Cloud Continuum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Discovering Cloud Basics ......................................................... 6 Foundational Cloud Delivery Services .................................... 6 Core Cloud Capabilities............................................................. 8 Elasticity and self-service provisioning ........................ 8 Billing and metering of service usage ........................... 9 Workload management ................................................... 9 Management services...................................................... 9 Understanding the Cloud Continuum.................................... 10 Open community clouds............................................... 12 Controlled open mode .................................................. 12 Contractual open ........................................................... 13 Public/private hybrid clouds ....................................... 13 Chapter 2: Digging Deeper into IaaS and PaaS . . . . . . .15 Diving into Infrastructure as a Service.................................. 16 Listing the characteristics of IaaS ............................... 16 Renting.................................................................. 17 Self-service provisioning .................................... 17 Dynamic scaling................................................... 17 Service levels ....................................................... 17 Licensing............................................................... 18 Metering................................................................ 18 Considering a private IaaS............................................ 18 Knowing how companies use IaaS............................... 19 Exploring PaaS.......................................................................... 20 Variations in PaaS delivery models............................. 21 Understanding the benefits of PaaS ............................ 22 Having the Correct Requirements for IaaS and PaaS ............ 23 These materials are the copyright of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and any  dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited.