Sources

Authoritative Sources

The definitions, principles, and practices in this pack are grounded in the following primary and widely recognised sources for cloud infrastructure. Provider documentation is cited for provider-specific mechanics, and vendor-neutral references (CNCF projects, RFCs, NIST) are cited for general concepts.

Cloud Provider Documentation

  • AWS Well-Architected Framework. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/framework/welcome.html
  • Amazon Web Services Documentation. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/
  • Microsoft Azure Documentation. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/
  • Azure Well-Architected Framework. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/
  • Google Cloud Documentation. https://cloud.google.com/docs
  • Google Cloud Architecture Framework. https://cloud.google.com/architecture/framework

Containers and Orchestration

  • Kubernetes Documentation. https://kubernetes.io/docs/home/
  • Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). https://www.cncf.io/
  • Open Container Initiative (OCI) Specifications. https://opencontainers.org/
  • Docker Documentation. https://docs.docker.com/

Infrastructure as Code

  • Terraform Documentation - HashiCorp. https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/docs
  • AWS CloudFormation User Guide. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/Welcome.html
  • OpenTofu Documentation. https://opentofu.org/docs/
  • Ansible Documentation - Red Hat. https://docs.ansible.com/

Reliability and Operations

  • Google Site Reliability Engineering Book (SLI/SLO/SLA, error budgets). https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/
  • The Twelve-Factor App methodology. https://12factor.net/
  • AWS Builders' Library (resilience, retries, timeouts). https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/
  • Prometheus Documentation (metrics and monitoring). https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/

Networking and Standards

  • HTTP Semantics - RFC 9110 (methods, status codes, idempotency), IETF. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110.html
  • The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3 - RFC 8446, IETF. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8446.html
  • Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) - RFC 4632, IETF. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4632.html

Security

  • NIST Special Publication 800-145 - The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing. https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/145/final
  • NIST Special Publication 800-207 - Zero Trust Architecture. https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/207/final
  • OWASP Cloud-Native Application Security Top 10. https://owasp.org/www-project-cloud-native-application-security-top-10/
  • CIS Benchmarks (cloud and Kubernetes hardening). https://www.cisecurity.org/cis-benchmarks