Cloud Computing

1. History and Evolution of Cloud Computing
2. Introduction to Cloud Computing
3. Basics of Distributed Computing
4. What is parallel processing?
5. Introduction to Virtualization
• Why is virtualization important?
• Virtualization Techniques
• Difference between Type 1 (bare metal) and Type 2 (hosted/embedded) Hypervisors
• Virtualization Case Studies: Xen, VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V
• Xen Networking
• Virtualization on x86 Architecture
6. Basics of Service-Oriented Computing
7. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
8. Basics of Web 2.0
9. Fat-Tree Network Topology
10. Cloud Computing Stack
11. Cloud Reference Model Architecture
• Infrastructure-as-a-Service Reference Model
• Platform-as-a-Service Reference Model
• Software-as-a-Service Reference Model
12. Cloud Computing Deployment Models
13. Open Source Cloud Platforms - CloudStack, EUCALYPTUS and OpenStack
14. EUCALYPTUS Cloud Architecture
15. Google App Engine (GAE)
16. Migrating Virtual Machine instances between Compute nodes
17. How Does Cloud-Based Development Differ from Other Application Development?
18. Load Balancing and Virtualization
19. Cloud-based Storage: Definition, Manned and Unmanned Storage
20. Applications in the Cloud: Cloud Transactions, Functionality Mapping, Attributes
21. Cloud Bursting
22. How to Secure a Cloud?
• Basics of Serverless Computing
• Serverless Computing and FaaS
• How Does Serverless Computing Work?
• Limits to Serverless Computing
23. Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Amazon EC2 Instances
• Platform as a Services of Amazon (AWS PaaS Offerings)
• Computing Services provided by Amazon (AWS)
• Amazon Cloud Storage Services (AWS)
• Identity and Access Management techniques in Amazon Cloud
• Amazon Monitoring and Observability-Amazon CloudWatch
24. Microsoft Entra ID / Windows Azure Active Directory
25. Lifecycle Management of Cloud Services: The Six Stages You Should Know
26. Inside Netflix’s Cloud Architecture: Microservices at Scale
27. YouTube’s Cloud Backbone: Handling Billions of Video Streams
28. Flipkart’s Cloud Architecture: Scaling for Millions of Shoppers