Identity and access management (IAM), data placement and workload lifetime determine how a cloud application behaves. An authoritative store needs clear ownership; request paths and asynchronous workers need measurable latency, recovery and cost targets.
In this chapter
- Cloud identity, network paths and service designUnderstand least-privilege service identities, private access, message/data boundaries and which GCP or AWS service owns each job.
- GCP service choices, execution limits and failure casesChoose event delivery, queued tasks, workflow coordination and data processing from workload constraints.
For graphics processing unit (GPU) hosting decisions, compare the cloud compute options. For SQL warehouse execution, see BigQuery slots and shuffles.