Top 5 Free Cloud Computing eBooks

There’s a lot of free literature out there when it comes to cloud computing. A lot of it is very valuable information that can give you exactly what you’re looking for, but you’ve got to know where to look–there are many eBooks that offer over 100 pages of mediocre content that, though it’s free, isn’t the kind of information that you need to be reading.

To help you take advantage of free eBooks, here is a list of the top 5 free eBooks on Cloud Computing.

1. Business in the Cloud by Michael Hugos and Derek Hulitzky– This book covers cloud computing, what business leaders need to know, and how IT can positively impact business operations and costs. It also reveals the cloud’s effect on corporate organization structures and the benefits and risks of cloud models and how they work with certain infrastructures.
2. Apache CloudStack Cloud Computing by Navin Sabharwal and Ravi Shankar– This book will teach you how to use the open source Apache CloudStack computing platform. This step-by-step approach cover’s everything, from the basics of setting up IaaS cloud to actual deployment scenarios.
3. Cloud Application Architectures by George Reese– This book will help with IT employees, system administrators and developers adapt to the scalable and sometimes redundant cloud services infrastructure. Cloud Application Architectures will help determine how to integrate your applications into these services.
4. Security and Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing presented by Cloud Security Alliance.org- This book provides practical recommendations and good questions to ask to make the transition to cloud or from another cloud secure and on your own terms. This book explains; Cloud Architecture, Governing in the Cloud, Operating in the Cloud, Traditional Security, Business Continuity, and Disaster Recovery, Data Center Operations, Incident Response, Notification, and Remediation, Application Security, Encryption and Key Management, Identity and Access Management, Virtualization.
5. Demystifying the Cloud by Janakiram MSV– This book explains the concepts of cloud computing in simple terms. It introduces key terms and concepts, and then covers the major implementations of cloud computing including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine Open Stack and Cloud Foundry. It is aimed at beginner and intermediate developers.