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Fundamentals of Cloud Computing

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Essentials of Cloud Computing

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The objective of this chapter is to introduce the fundamentals of cloud computing. This covers the features of cloud computing, the architecture of cloud computing, and different service classes and deployment models of cloud computing. In addition, it gives a brief overview of the different public cloud service providers.

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Surianarayanan, C., Chelliah, P.R. (2019). Fundamentals of Cloud Computing. In: Essentials of Cloud Computing. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13134-0_2

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