Three steps that you must do before building cloud solution

Building for cloud is different

Whether you are building for the Azure or for the AWS, you can see there are some difference between building the cloud solution and on-premises solution. There are three key differences when comparing cloud and on-premises which are:

• Cloud is running in massive scale virtualization. Therefore, some of the key architecture such as cookie, session, and cache should be different between cloud and on-premises.
• Cloud is providing platform tools. Cloud computing such as AWS or Azure is giving you some platform tools to more productive
• Cloud is costly for some workload. Cloud computing is costly for some workloads. When comparing with the on-premises or conventional hosting, the cloud computing is costly for some workload configuration

Based on that difference, we discuss three steps that you must do before building cloud solution.

Step 1. Learning the platform tools

After installing visual studio or visual studio codes you should download the platform tools for Azure or AWS.

• For Azure, you can download and install Azure developments workload on Visual Studio Installer. You can download https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/
• For Aws, you can download The AWS toolkit https://aws.amazon.com/visualstudio/

Step 2. Start with the developer SKU

Both Azure and AWS has the developer SKU. It provides you better price for developer and testing purpose. Beside of that both platforms have 12 months free use for lightweight use.

• For Azure, you have Dev Test Pricing. It clears enough to get started https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/dev-test/
• For AWS, you should register it first. You can get 70% reduced prices https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/?nc2=h_ql_pr_ln

Step 3. Learning the architecture for the Cloud

Next things that you can do is learning the recommended architecture in the cloud. By learning the recommended architecture, we can make sure that the proposed solution can be utilized and used for customer.

• For Azure, you can read the cloud patterns by visiting https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns/
• For AWS, you can learn AWS well architecture format https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/framework/welcome.html