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Cloud constraints

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Cloud constraints

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- [Instructor] When new system architects and administrators start using the cloud, one of the first steps taken is to try to determine what resources will be needed. One of the first steps may be attempting to map an existing, non-cloud system to resources available in the cloud. Most of the time, such an exercise will reveal that the cloud does not have an exact specification match for every component in an existing system. The exact specifications of the existing on-premise infrastructure are no longer a constraint. The cloud provides many building blocks from which to construct the new system. They become even more powerful when combined with the cloud's on-demand provisioning model, even though an exact replica of existing hardware may not be available in the cloud. The ability exists to get more resources to compensate. This is all structured with scalability in mind. For example, if there is not a cloud server type…

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