This is Part 14 of cloud computing tutorial. In this video, we'll wrap up this cloud computing
basics course. Cloud computing is everywhere. It's a big shift from the traditional way businesses
think about IT resources and software solutions. Organizations of every type, size and industry
are using the cloud for a wide variety of use cases. It is the future. Whether
you are a software engineer, quality engineer, business analyst, software architect, IT manager
or a CTO i.e Chief Technology Officer. It has got something to offer to everyone. If you don't
upgrade yourself and learn cloud computing, sooner or later you are out of the game. In this course
we've covered several important cloud concepts. The state of information technology before virtual
machines. What is a virtual machine. What are containers. What is a cloud and why is it
important. Different types of clouds like private, public and hybrid. Different types of cloud
offerings - Infrastructure as a service, Platform as a service and Software as a service. Benefits
and risks of moving to a cloud. Cloud computing offers several benefits and we discussed them
in detail in our previous videos in this series. Just like everything else along with the benefits
cloud computing also has risks. We must know and consider these risks before moving to a cloud.
Again, we discussed the risks of cloud computing in detail in our previous videos in this series.
Data security is one of the very important risks you must consider. When you store your business,
employees and customer data in the cloud you are placing your complete trust on the cloud
service provider to secure and safeguard the data. I want to take this opportunity to clarify
one potential point of confusion you may have on your mind. If you're thinking your applications
and data are more secure in your own data center, you are almost certainly mistaken.
Cloud service providers, at least the big reputable players like Microsoft Azure,
Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud for example, invest lots of resources and money to implement
and improve cloud security. They're experts in this area. Their data centers are far more secure
than our own data center. So, in reality by moving to the cloud you're actually improving security,
not reducing it. In addition to this best practices like encryption,
two-factor authentication, auditing, reviewing and rotating access keys and credentials
can reduce the security risk to a great extent. Like everything else, cloud computing
has benefits and risks. We are far enough into the cloud revolution. It has matured so much
that these risks have been dealt with in many ways. Cloud is here to stay and it has
fundamentally changed the way businesses think about IT resources and software solutions. So
this is a wrap of this course. I hope you have enjoyed it as much as I did creating it.
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Our next course is going to be Azure tutorial for beginners. Azure is the cloud computing
service from Microsoft. In this course we'll discuss everything you need to know to build,
deploy and scale applications using Microsoft Azure. If you have a specific concept or topic
in mind that you want me to cover as part of this course, please leave it as a comment on this video
and I will surely cover it. This is Venkat. Thank you for watching.