Cloud AI Architect

Enterprise AI has moved out of research notebooks into production, running on cloud infrastructure that demands a specialized multi-cloud strategy. This book is your definitive architectural roadmap to designing, building, and operating production-ready artificial intelligence solutions across Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform without vendor lock-in.

This book systematically covers the complete multi-cloud AI lifecycle across twelve detailed chapters. It begins with core infrastructure—GPU compute, petabyte-scale storage, private subnets, and SRE resilience—then layers on Zero Trust identity, enterprise governance, and cost management alongside LLM inference optimization. It moves through a managed platform overview comparing Azure OpenAI, AWS SageMaker, and Google Vertex AI, leading directly into hands-on model development, feature engineering, and AutoML pipelines. Later chapters cover domain-specific architectures for enterprise vision, natural language, and predictive forecasting, along with no-code/low-code tools like Power Automate and Textract.

By the end of this book, you will be able to design AI systems that are fast, affordable, governed, and resilient, and to defend every architectural choice with evidence rather than vendor claims.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
● Optimize GPU compute, storage, and networking for AI workloads.
● Enforce Zero Trust identity, governance, and compliance across three clouds.
● Build and deploy models on Azure ML, SageMaker, and Vertex AI.
● Design production vision, language, and forecasting systems end-to-end.
● Ship faster with no-code and low-code AI tooling.

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
This book is written for students, cloud architects, machine learning engineers, site reliability engineers, data platform leads, and engineering managers accountable for AI systems in production. Comfort with cloud fundamentals and Python will help, but no prior experience building an AI platform is assumed.