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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By : Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta
Book Image

Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By: Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta

Overview of this book

With this Learning Path, you’ll explore techniques to easily manage applications on the AWS cloud. You’ll begin with an introduction to serverless computing, its advantages, and the fundamentals of AWS. The following chapters will guide you on how to manage multiple accounts by setting up consolidated billing, enhancing your application delivery skills, with the latest AWS services such as CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline to provide continuous delivery and deployment, while also securing and monitoring your environment's workflow. It’ll also add to your understanding of the services AWS Lambda provides to developers. To refine your skills further, it demonstrates how to design, write, test, monitor, and troubleshoot Lambda functions. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • AWS Administration: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Yohan Wadia • AWS Administration Cookbook by Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan • Mastering AWS Lambda by Yohan Wadia, Udita Gupta
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Recommendations with Trusted Advisor


Trusted Advisor covers four main areas and it is designed to give you some guidance around what are considered best practices for your cloud deployment. The areas covered are:

  • Cost Optimization
  • Performance
  • Security
  • Fault Tolerance

It's available to everyone and free to use—with one fairly large catch. Unless you are paying for Business or Enterprise level support with AWS you only get access to four checks. At the time of publishing there are 55 possible checks.

How to do it...

The good news is you don't need to do anything at all to turn on Trusted Advisor. It's automatically enabled when your AWS account is created and will continue to update for the lifetime of your account.

Go ahead and navigate to the Trusted Advisor section of the AWS web console.

How it works...

The four checks provided for free with this service are:

  • Unrestricted ports: This is a check on the highest risk ports in your security groups. They'll be flagged if they're open to everyone (0.0...