Phase 3 · Module 8 of 15Quadrant B · the data half
Cloud and Infrastructure
Where does software run after it leaves an engineer's laptop?
By the end: You can explain the cloud as rented computing resources and distinguish the major infrastructure categories.
L1Data centers, on-premises infrastructure, and the cloud~15 min○L2Compute, storage, networking, and virtual machines~17 min○L3Managed services, serverless computing, and object storage~24 min○L4Containers, Docker, and Kubernetes~22 min○L5Regions, availability zones, and autoscaling~21 min○L6Configuration, secrets, and infrastructure as code~25 min○
What lights on your map here
serverdata centercloud computingon-premisescomputestoragenetworkingvirtual machineinstancemanaged serviceself-managed serviceserverlessobject storageregionavailability zoneautoscalingcontainerDockercontainer imageregistryartifactenvironment variableconfigurationsecretsecrets managerinfrastructure as codeIaaSPaaSSaaS
Recognition terms — you'll know they exist
Kubernetesclusternodepod
Named technologies
EC2S3LambdaSQSSNSECSSecrets Manager