The current work provides CIOs, software architects, project managers, developers, and cloud strategy initiatives with a set of architectural patterns that offer advice on how to achieve common cloud computing-related goals. The cloud computing patterns capture knowledge and experience in an abstract format that is independent of specific vendor products. Readers are provided with a toolbox to structure cloud computing strategies and design cloud application architectures. By using this book, cloud-native applications can be implemented, and the best-suited cloud vendors and tools for individual usage scenarios can be selected. The cloud computing patterns offer a unique blend of academic knowledge and practical experience due to the mix of authors. Academic knowledge is contributed by Christoph Fehling and Professor Dr. Frank Leymann, who work on cloud research at the university.