Cloud Computing for Regional Gardens: Benefits, Risks and Mitigation Strategies

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Discussion........................................................................................................................................2
The cloud architecture that can be assisted for the Regional Gardens:.......................................2
The benefits that can be achieved for the deployment of the mentioned architecture in the
Regional Garden:.........................................................................................................................4
Risk regarding the hybrid cloud and the strategies to control those risks:..................................6
Steps and controls for securing the hybrid cloud.......................................................................10
Business Continuity Planning for the micro service approach and hybrid cloud:.....................11
Resource management , SLA management and the remote server administration...................12
Migration to AWS services:......................................................................................................12
Critical points and issues:..........................................................................................................13
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................13
References......................................................................................................................................15

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Introduction
Regional Gardens Ltd is an organization which is owner of the several gardening
enterprise. The organization controls and manage the variety of garden display and those
gardening will be open for the inspection of the people for the certain time. The organization is
currently planning to move all the stored data to migrate to the cloud (Hashem et al.,2015). The
business of this organization is growing and to make their service highly available to the
consumer, the organization has planned to improvise the Web service. This modification of the
system will increase the flexibility of the business operating system along with the maintenance
of the scalability of the system. In order to implement the system in a better way the security and
the associated threats with the improvised system is needed to be discussed during the time of
migration.
The main objective of this article is to discuss about the implementation of the data
storage to the cloud along with the evaluation of the security and the risks associated with the
migration process. Different ways of risk control method along with the ways for the mitigation
of the risk are also described in this study. The business process continuity of the Regional
Gardens are also provided along with mentioning the recommendation for the deployment of the
right cloud architecture to be implemented in the Regional Garden.

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Discussion
The cloud architecture that can be assisted for the Regional Gardens:
In order to choose the significant cloud architecture for the Regional Gardens, the
evaluation of different types cloud architectures are needed to be discussed. There variations of
the cloud architecture can be classified upon two attributes-
Difference based on the type of service
The classification of the service based on the deployment method.
There are three types of cloud service based on the type of service. These three categories
are- SaaS (Software as service),IaaS( Infrastructure as service), PaaS(Platform as service).
On the basis of the deployment of the cloud architecture the cloud architecture can be
categorized in to three different kinds- public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud. The hybrid
cloud is the combination of the public clod and the hybrid cloud.
The Regional Garden has decided to migrate the data to the hybrid cloud and the service
it is going to use is PaaS (Platform as Service). This solution can be helpful for the organization
to expand the business along with that the improvisation of service can be done as the migration
of data to the cloud will provide better management of data. Moreover, this improvement of the
organization will help the Regional Garden to provide better customer service.
The significance for choosing the cloud service and the type of the deployment of the
cloud can be justified. PaaS or platform as a service is a cloud service where the vendor or the
cloud providing company will provide both the hardware and the software infrastructure to the
users. The users can use those infrastructure to run their own programs(Sanaei et al.,2014) . This