- [Narrator] All right let's spend some time
but obviously there's governance systems,
If you go to one of their larger events
with the other competitors that are out there.
Some instances they're building
In many instances they're building unique things.
to become a good cloud architect
dependent on your ability to keep up.
So there are hundreds of services to understand
and really what I recommend to you
is that you don't try to understand them all,
that you understand the categories of services.
And that if you need it you can understand it
but this isn't something where you're going to
be able to study the systems and how they're maturing
and the roadmaps all the time.
This is about you understanding
whether it's a database service,
monitoring management services.
What it does, now what it does
compared to the competitors out there
which one's better to use where and how.
And you can find information out there,
people such as myself that write these blogs
that review existing systems
but more often than not I think you should
come to your own conclusions.
So test the software read what's out there
and make you're own decisions as to what's
pertinent to you and what's going to solve your issues.
As I mentioned you need to place them
into logical categories
and understand their capabilities.
Can't stress this enough
it's going to drive you crazy if you start
chasing every new term and buzzword out there.
and you're able to discern
what they're able to do
you're going to make much more sense of it.
And more importantly as you build your architecture
you're going to be able to place them
in the right logical order
in the right logical bucket.
And they need to be understood.
And so you're insuring that if you have to
look at governance systems for instance
API governance systems to be more specific
that you're able to narrow it down
to five different products that do API
governance on a particular platform
and if you're looking at
the other cloud computing platforms
is going to be a vast improvement
So you have cloud services of course
you have management services,
security services,
governance services,
and we've already talked a bit about that
not governance yet but ultimately
you know these are things we need to consider
as we pick clouds.
These are major services,
databases,
we have storage,
we have compute
but we also have operations,
which is under the management category,
logging which is under management.
Identity access management
which is under security.
Encryption services under security as well.
Governance with service as a subset of that.
Cost governance is a subset of it.
Databases, big data systems,
and transactional systems.
So data warehousing versus
transactional and databases.
And then storage block versus object, file.
Well as compute with platform as a subcategory of that
and then high performance computing
in other words the super computers out there.
So as you're looking at this
this is just my interpretation
of what categories or the basic categories
that we can use to categorize
different cloud services that are out there.
You may have different requirements
if you're in the banking system
you may have an API management system
you may have a compliance management system
things like that that the cloud provider provides
that are going to be more important to you
and you need to put those into categories
and understand what those services are.
And these are going to be constantly updated.
Typically this is done
with a cloud computing center of excellence
that you may have within your organization
and large organizations have those.
And they're able to make assessments
as to what technologies are out there
what categories they belong in.
And assist you in picking the right technology
and ultimately even negotiating the deal.
You don't have that and most organizations
small organizations typically don't
this still allows you to put this in a logical
sequence and order.
So when your management asks you how
this stuff was picked
and are you sure that you're picking
the right technology
and do you understand the landscape out there.
These sorts of things will eliminate
many of those concerns
because it's obvious that you thought
through it you understand what's out there
how to categorize these things.
You've looked at these things
and broken these services down
to the functional primitive,
understanding the cost characteristics
the functional characteristics
to make the right choices.