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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

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

Introducing AWS step functions


Working with Lambda functions so far has been really great for us and I hope it's been a similar experience for you as well! But there's a slight hitch that the Lambda service alone cannot help solve: how do you effectively coordinate and orchestrate Lambda functions so that they form a backbone for some really distributed applications that rely on complex workflows for execution? For most of you, working with AWS for a long time, the obvious answer would be to use something like AWS Simple Workflow Service (SWF) or maybe even create a single Lambda function that acts as an orchestrator for some other worker functions, but both these techniques have their own sets of pros and cons. To solve this, AWS unfolded the Step Functions web service during the AWS re:Invent 2016 event!

AWS Step Functions is basically an orchestration service for Lambda functions, using which you can orchestrate and control multiple Lambda function executions. Using Step Functions, you...