COSC 471 - Cloud Computing

Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: COSC 210
Description: Provides analytical and practical coverage of cloud computing and web services. Focuses on the technology, frameworks and associated standards: cloud models, cloud platforms and scalability. Compares advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing platforms, identify security and privacy issues in cloud computing, and analyze performance, scalability, and availability of the underlying cloud technologies and software. Deploys applications over a commercial cloud infrastructure such as AWS or Windows Azure.