After reading through Chapter 12 and our discussion in class, I think it’s easy to see that a lot of cloud computing is just the classic client\/server architecture, but connected over the Internet, so the server in this case is in a data center somewhere rather than on site in the office. One section I found myself disagreeing with was the section on characteristics in order for something to be truly considered a cloud resource. The book stated that “the customer only rents a resource, with no knowledge or control over how it is provided or where it is located.” In my limited experience, there are many times that customers of major cloud services, such as AWS, specifically choose fairly defined and small regions where their cloud resources will be primarily hosted. With the contract with AWS, those organizations negotiated for primary resources to be located in a specific group of data centers in Northern Virginia and for backups also hosted by AWS to be stored in a data center in a different particular region based on the organization’s BCP and DRP. I’ve also seen instances where the contract dictates what other types of organizations may share the same physical hardware. For something to be labeled as being in the cloud, you don’t have to completely give up all of that control and be in the dark about what is going on. At least that’s my opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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