#9 - Introduction to the Cloud

Have you ever wanted to learn the basic fundamentals of the cloud?  This podcast provides a 50,000 foot view of the cloud.  Specific discussions include:

• What is the cloud?
• What types of clouds are there and what are the differences?
• What is the term shared responsibility model and what does that mean for securing the cloud?

Chapters

• 00:00 Introduction
• 02:10 The Basics of Cloud Computing
• 06:20 Cloud Computing and Infrastructure as a Service Model
• 10:17 The different levels of responsibility in an Elastic Compute Cloud Environment
• 13:18 How to host a server in the cloud
• 15:33 The differences between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
• 17:30 The consequences of committing to the cloud
• 19:15 The rise of AWS locations
• 21:21 The politics of Cloud Provider Infrastructure
• 24:15 The benefits of the cloud
• 26:30 AWS's share responsibility model
• 30:43 The impediments to a high level of security in the cloud
• 34:46 How to sleep soundly with your data n the cloud
• 37:18 How to run a hybrid cloud
• 39:46 The challenges of hybrid clouds
• 43:03 Seven design principles for securing the cloud