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Cloud Computing Fundamentals

Assessment - Technology Report and Presentation

Learning Outcome 1: Describe the essential computing elements in cloud services to enable industry automations.

Learning Outcome 2: Distinguish the use of cloud services from traditional IT infrastructure in digital transformation.

Assessment Task
Deliver a 1,200-word written report (+/- 10%) and a 5- to 7- minute presentation describing and distinguishing the key contributions of cloud computing to business automation.

Context

In the first four weeks, we explored some key concepts in cloud computing such as the advantages of cloud computing over traditional IT infrastructure in business automation, the essential characteristics of the cloud, cloud computing deployment models and service models.
This assessment provides an opportunity for you to apply the knowledge and skills you have learnt in the first four weeks to a close-to real-life scenario. You will have an opportunity to demonstrate your understanding of:
Cloud computing and how the cloud fits with modern computing requirements
Essential characteristics of cloud computing and the potential of cloud computing, including the benefits and the challenges
Various types of essential computing elements or services provided by the cloud service providers.

Instructions 1. Report
This assessment is based on the following scenario. Read the scenario, then address the following tasks in a 1,200-word report.
Report structure
You should support your report with a minimum of 10 to 12 references. These should be included using the appropriate APA style.
Scenario
ABC Enterprise launched the ABC app in October 2020, which supports some services such as food delivery, taxi bookings and payments.
ABC ruled out developing an on-premises solution to support its ABC app. ABC is a start-up company and cannot afford the upfront costs of an on-premises infrastructure. Like other start-ups, ABC finds that cloud-based IT has a pay-as-you-grow model, which would allow the company to carefully control its costs. With cloud technology, IT expenditure would increase only as their business expanded and revenues grew. ABC start searching for cloud services that are highly scalable and reliable because they cannot afford downtime as they are operating in a competitive business where customers can switch to another app if their app has problems.
The company found that only XYZ Cloud provider could meet its needs. The launch of the ABC app was successful with XYZ Cloud, and ABC went on to launch its food delivery service, which offers customers delivery services from 500 restaurants. Data traffic to come from the ABC app is routed via cloud Route 53 to the ABC cloud infrastructure. The data is then processed by elastic computing instances or virtual machines running web and application servers. Cloud storage service is used for backups and imagery.
By using cloud services, ABC reduced the IT start-up costs by 80 percent as the company grew and added more customers. After one campaign, ABC saw that the customer numbers had increased by 10 times in a single month. Despite its increase in customers, ABC has avoided a corresponding increase in IT management expenses.

The Chief Cloud Officer (CCO) is seeking to leverage the best cloud solution to help the business grow. You, as a cloud systems analyst, have now been engaged to provide an initial report to the chief cloud officer addressing several tasks assigned to you.

Tasks
Based on this scenario, you will need to write a report in which you:
Provide three benefits of cloud computing over the traditional IT infrastructure of ABC Enterprise. Discuss which cloud characteristics, can help to achieve that.
Select any one cloud service provider (AWS, Azure or GCP) and discuss any two key services offered by them.
Discuss the cloud service models and deployment models in detail. Suggest which service model and deployment model are more suitable for this scenario.
Suggest which cost model is more suitable for this scenario. Your report can include costing information about route 53 services or 3S (simple storage service). You can also delve into the cost of reserved instances versus on-demand instances.
Note: You should support your report with a minimum of 10 to 12 references. These should be included using the appropriate APA style.

Presentation
To complete this assessment, you are to create a 5- to 7-minute audio-visual presentation video to describe and distinguish the key contributions of cloud computing to business automation.
Introduce yourself by your name, Torrens' student ID and show a student card (if issued) at the beginning of the recording.
Address the benefits and challenges of cloud computing over the traditional IT infrastructure.
Discuss the cloud service models and deployment model that is suitable for the case study scenario.

Referencing
It is essential that you use the appropriate APA style for citing and referencing research.