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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

Summary


In this chapter, we went through some of the AWS components you will use to build your products. We covered source management, compute, storage, networking, and user management. There are many services we did not cover. Some of these, such as databases and machine learning, we will touch on in the remainder of this book. Others, we will omit entirely in order to stay focused on well-used patterns. We will continue to use our instance of Cloud9 throughout this book as our cloud IDE. In the IDE, we installed Terraform and created some AWS resources. Lastly, we focused on how everything we do in AWS can be driven through code and the importance of versioning it.

In the next chapter, we will combine some of the components into architectures aimed towards creating your own highly available services.