Fundamentals of Cloud Computing

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This course examines the fundamental building blocks and current practices of cloud computing. It explores distributed computing models and technologies, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), virtualization and containerization, software-defined environments (SDE), microservices-enabled architecture, cloud-class storage systems, big data processing frameworks, federated clouds, cloud-hosted applications, security and privacy, legal and ethical considerations, and other advanced and research topics in cloud computing. Case studies will investigate both established and state-of-the-art systems. Students will critique and present existing work and develop a deeper understanding and limitations of the state-of-the-art cloud systems. They will also propose and complete a research project individually or in teams, and write a conference/journal quality paper.