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Overview: This week’s chapters details some of the prominent cloud vendor services. For the IaaS delivery model, we describe the various cloud services provided by Amazon, including Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Storage System (S3), Elastic Block Store (EBS), Simple DB, Simple Queue Service (SQS), CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, and Elastic Beanstalk. For the PaaS delivery model, we discuss the examples of Amazon Relational Database Service, Google Apps Engine (GAE), Google Cloud Print, and Windows Azure. We will consider the Hadoop ecosystem including Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), HBase NoSQL database, Hive data warehouse solution, and the Pig query language for ad-hoc analytical requirements.

We discuss the issues related to cloudware operations and management. The readings describe the portfolio of core services (including discovery and replication, load balancing, resource management, data governance, management services, and fault tolerance) and functionality (including Service management, Metering/billing, Data management, monitoring, security management, SLAs and QoS management, performance management, policy management, self-service, support and incident management, analytics, orchestration, transformation, logging/audit trails, mediation, integration, rules management, and semantic engine).