Learning Outcomes

In this free course, you will learn how to:

• Define the concept of cloud computing
• Classify private and public clouds
• Classify cloud service models
• Categorize virtualization technologies including VMs and containers
• Describe the concept of vertical and horizontal scaling
• Discuss the connection between microservices and cloud-native apps
• Explain how IaaS is transforming IT into a utility
• Classify the building blocks of cloud computing
• Discuss IaaS pricing models
• Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of IaaS
• Recognize typical market-use cases