CSIT 277 — Introduction to Cloud Computing
This course provides students with an overview of the field of Cloud Computing, its enabling technologies, main building blocks, and hands-on experience through projects utilizing popular public cloud infrastructures. Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service over a network, whereby distributed resources are rented, rather than owned, by an end user as a utility. The course will introduce this domain and cover the topics of cloud infrastructures, virtualization, software defined networks and storage, cloud storage, and programming models. In addition, this course will introduce the motivating factors, benefits and challenges of the cloud, as well as service models, service level agreements (SLAs), security, example cloud service providers, and use cases. (Online Only) Code 3 course fee.