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The book surveys the technology that underpins the cloud, new approaches to technical problems enabled by the cloud, and the concepts required to integrate cloud services into scientific work. It covers managing data in the cloud, and how to program these services; computing in the cloud, from deploying single virtual machines or containers to supporting basic interactive science experiments to gathering clusters of machines to do data analytics; using the cloud as a platform for automating analysis procedures, machine learning, and analyzing streaming data; building your own cloud with open source software; and cloud security.

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"This book helps make the cloud computing ecosystem comprehensible for scientist and student alike. Foster and Gannon provide an introduction to concepts, an explanation of systems, clean code examples in Python, and even downloadable Jupyter notebooks. Sign me up!" - Simson L. Garfinkel, Cloud Computing Instructor; author of Architects of the Information Society

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Ian Foster is the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago and Distinguished Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory. Dennis B. Gannon is Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington.

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