"This chapter is from the book, 'Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology &
Architecture' authored by Thomas Erl with Zaigham Mahmood and Ricardo
Puttini, published by Pearson/Prentice Hall Professional, May 2013, ISBN
0133387526, Copyright 2013 Arcitura Education Inc. For more info please
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This chapter introduces and describes several of the more common foundational
cloud architectural models, each exemplifying a common usage and
characteristic of contemporary cloud-based environments. The involvement and
importance of different combinations of cloud computing mechanisms in
relation to these architectures are explored.
Workload Distribution Architecture
IT resources can be horizontally scaled via the addition of one or more
identical IT resources, and a load balancer th... (more)