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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 Amazon Redshift


Amazon Redshift is one of the database as a service (DBaaS) offerings from AWS that provides a massively scalable data warehouse as a managed service, at significantly lower costs. The data warehouse is based on the open source PostgreSQL database technology however; not all features offered in PostgreSQL are present in Amazon Redshift. Here's a look at some of the essential concepts and terminologies that you ought to keep in mind when working with Amazon Redshift:

  • Clusters: Just like Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift too relies on the concept of clusters. Clusters here are logical containers containing one or more instances or compute nodes, and one leader node that is responsible for the cluster's overall management. Here's a brief look at what each node provides:
    • Leader node: The leader node is a single node present in a cluster that is responsible for orchestrating and executing various database operations, as well as facilitating communication between the database...