Cloud Technologies and Services: Theoretical Concepts and Practical Applications
暫譯: 雲端技術與服務：理論概念與實務應用

這本教科書提供了對雲端技術的全面而簡潔的回顧。它對亞馬遜網路服務（Amazon Web Services, AWS）、微軟Azure（Microsoft Azure）和Google雲端平台（Google Cloud Platform, GCP）所提供的雲端服務、平台和應用的技術概念進行了易於理解的解釋。它以技術和非技術讀者都能理解和應用的深度呈現雲端概念。一旦達成這一點，學習者就可以輕鬆地進入更高級的主題。或者，他們可以利用從這本書中獲得的知識來獲得行業認證，並在這個令人興奮的行業中具備競爭力。

讀者的學習透過全書中的測驗和考試問題以及實作實驗室得以增強，並提供PowerPoint簡報、教學指南和線上額外實驗室。這本書中包含了晉升為雲端架構師所需的所有工具。

作者在自己的學術環境中驗證了這種方法的成功。他在南方衛理公會大學教授雲端工程和進階雲端工程。這兩門課程是與AWS學院（AWS Academy）合作開發的，該學院是亞馬遜網路服務雲端平台的教育部門。使用這種方法，他的學生經常參加並通過雲端認證考試，並在快速擴張的雲端產業中獲得高薪工作。

Dr. M. Scott Kingsley has over 40 years' experience in the telecommunications, networking and IT industries. He earned a Master of Science degree in Telecommunications Network Systems and a Doctor of Engineering from Southern Methodist University. He also completed a post-doctoral fellowship with the Center for Security Studies in Cybersecurity at the University of Maryland-University College. Employment history includes being a U.S. Navy veteran and mainstream telecommunications companies such as MCI, Alcatel and others where held numerous senior engineering positions. As a seasoned educator he has taught over 900 semester hours of undergraduate and graduate courses over more than thirty years. Teaching positions have included corporate, community college, and undergraduate and graduate university institutions. He has also been recognized as an advanced level instructor by the Cisco Networking Academy and holds certifications in Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platforms. As a successful entrepreneur he founded and operated two companies. The first, TelOptica, Inc., that employed over one-hundred engineers to develop and market telecommunications software. Customers included Fujitsu, AT&T, Qwest, Verizon and others. The second was a services and consulting company that developed and implemented complex telecommunications solutions from Tier 1 network providers. Dr. Kingsley is currently the Program Director and faculty of the graduate Network Engineering program at Southern Methodist University where has implemented an innovative, industry relevant and practical curriculum as well as personally developed and taught a wide range of the program courses. He was awarded Professor of the Year in the Electrical Engineering department in both 2016 and 2018. The program was awarded the Program of the Year in both 2015 and 2018 as well as numerous Innovative Course awards for cloud technologies and services course by the Information and Telecommunications Education andResearch Association (ITERA) where he is also a board member and has held several executive positions. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He has many published papers and has presented at numerous conferences on networking technologies. He is also the author of a published book on advanced network design.

M. Scott Kingsley 博士在電信、網路和資訊科技產業擁有超過 40 年的經驗。他在南方衛理公會大學獲得電信網路系統的理學碩士學位及工程博士學位。他還在馬里蘭大學大學學院的網路安全研究中心完成了博士後研究。其工作經歷包括美國海軍退伍軍人，以及在 MCI、阿爾卡特等主流電信公司擔任多個高級工程職位。作為一位資深教育者，他在超過三十年的時間裡教授了超過 900 學期小時的本科和研究生課程。教學職位包括企業、高等職業學校以及本科和研究生大學機構。他還被思科網路學院認可為高級講師，並持有亞馬遜網路服務（AWS）雲平台的認證。作為一位成功的企業家，他創立並經營了兩家公司。第一家公司 TelOptica, Inc.，雇用了超過一百名工程師來開發和銷售電信軟體，客戶包括富士通、AT&T、Qwest、Verizon 等。第二家公司是一家服務和諮詢公司，開發並實施來自 Tier 1 網路供應商的複雜電信解決方案。Kingsley 博士目前是南方衛理公會大學研究生網路工程課程的項目主任和教職員，並實施了一個創新、與行業相關且實用的課程，還親自開發並教授該課程的多個課程。他在 2016 年和 2018 年兩度獲得電機工程系的年度教授獎。該課程在 2015 年和 2018 年獲得年度課程獎，並因雲技術和服務課程獲得資訊與電信教育研究協會（ITERA）頒發的多項創新課程獎，他也是該協會的董事會成員並擔任過多個高層職位。他是電氣和電子工程師學會（IEEE）的資深會員。他發表了多篇論文，並在多個會議上介紹網路技術。他還是一本關於高級網路設計的出版書籍的作者。