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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

Shared responsibilities


A huge benefit of using AWS services is that they manage a great deal of the security for you. You get to focus on product concerns. Amazon's data centers have certification for compliance with a large number of global standards such as CSA and ISO 27001. They also have industry-specific certifications for PCI, HIPAA, and NIST. Customers who trust AWS to house their products range from the Fortune 1000 to local governments.

Cloud specific

Building your product on the cloud lets you concentrate on the features that are important to your customer. We have been using AWS APIs (wrapped by Terraform) to manage our deployments. Amazon manages the security of, and access to, all physical devices. Assessments and testing of their assets are part of their ongoing operational concerns. Vulnerability and patch management for any hardware bugs (such as Spectre and Meltdown) are covered by their service-level agreements. However, operating systems and some services will require...