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Implementing Cloud Design Patterns for AWS - Second Edition

By : Sean Keery, Clive Harber, Marcus Young
Book Image

Implementing Cloud Design Patterns for AWS - Second Edition

By: Sean Keery, Clive Harber, Marcus Young

Overview of this book

Whether you're just getting your feet wet in cloud infrastructure or already creating complex systems, this book will guide you through using the patterns to fit your system needs. Starting with patterns that cover basic processes such as source control and infrastructure-as-code, the book goes on to introduce cloud security practices. You'll then cover patterns of availability and scalability and get acquainted with the ephemeral nature of cloud environments. You'll also explore advanced DevOps patterns in operations and maintenance, before focusing on virtualization patterns such as containerization and serverless computing. In the final leg of your journey, this book will delve into data persistence and visualization patterns. You'll get to grips with architectures for processing static and dynamic data, as well as practices for managing streaming data. By the end of this book, you will be able to design applications that are tolerant of underlying hardware failures, resilient against an unexpected influx of data, and easy to manage and replicate.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Amazon Web Services
Index

Networking


Once we have our compute running, we need our instances to talk to each other or our customers. AWS provides very sophisticated options to ensure that communications are fast, reliable, secure, and easy to configure.

 

Internet Protocol 

The basis for the internet and all cloud computing is the Internet Protocol (IP). All IP addresses are currently using the IPv4 standard. By default, any addresses you create are not available publicly outside of your account.

Elastic IP

AWS has a pool of public IP addresses that can be used by their customers. You are billed for an Elastic IP (EIP) if you don't have it attached to an instance. This is because the IPv4 address space is almost completely used.

IPv6

The newest version of the IP standard is v6. Current allocations provide for 4,000 addresses for every person on the planet. You must explicitly opt-in to using it on AWS, and it is not available for all services yet.

Route 53

To hide the complexity of the IP address space, we will use the Domain...