My Four Steps for a successful cloud deployment - Scale

Scaling for flexible workloads

Another excerpt from my book, Who moved my Servers?

One of the most attractive features of moving to the Cloud is the ability to scale applications quickly based on workload.

My Four Steps for a successful cloud deployment - Automate

Automated infrastructure for your build, test, deployment and operation

My Four Steps for a successful cloud deployment - Design

Application designed for Cloud

As the Cloud is a pay as you go service, the application should be too.

AWS’s CTO Werner Vogels speaking at Amazon re: invent said
‘While an Amazon EC2 instance might look like a server to you, it is not a server. It is something you can switch off, it is a software component’.

My Four Steps for a successful cloud deployment - Introduction

Getting servers to build themselves in AWS

I was asked to speak at an event, Expert Talks, in Manchester. This was originally scheduled before the summer break, but some football event was happening on the some night.