In the era of cloud and anything-as-a-service, large organizations and managed service providers (MSPs) are looking to offer their tenants and customers services that mimic the performance and reliability of giants such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Some well-known attributes of cloud such as self-service consumption, automation, and pay-as-you-go economics are coveted as the critical tenets of cloud.

In this guide, you will learn the basics of web-scale technology for cloud service providers, and arm yourself with the tools you need to architect a network built for the web-scale era.