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Effective DevOps with AWS

By : Nathaniel Felsen
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Effective DevOps with AWS

By: Nathaniel Felsen

Overview of this book

The DevOps movement has transformed the way modern tech companies work. AWS which has been on the forefront of the Cloud computing revolution has also been a key contributor of this DevOps movement creating a huge range of managed services that help you implement the DevOps principles. In this book, you’ll see how the most successful tech start-ups launch and scale their services on AWS and how you can too. Written by a lead member of Mediums DevOps team, this book explains how to treat infrastructure as code, meaning you can bring resources online and offline as necessary with the code as easily as you control your software. You will also build a continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline to keep your app up to date. You’ll find out how to scale your applications to offer maximum performance to users anywhere in the world, even when traffic spikes with the latest technologies, such as containers and serverless computing. You will also take a deep dive into monitoring and alerting to make sure your users have the best experience when using your service. Finally, you’ll get to grips with ensuring the security of your platform and data.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Hardening the Security of Your AWS Environment

Our infrastructure is getting more and more advanced. One of the last areas that deserves a lot more attention is the security.

Security teams used to live in a silo, the same way operations teams once did before the DevOps revolution. Now that applications are running in the cloud and the rate of iteration and deployment frequency has drastically increased, the role of security needs to be moved to the left. Security-related issues need to be caught as early as possible. New movements such as DevSecOps and rugged DevOps were created with the goal of bringing the same concepts that revolutionized the operations world to the security industry. These concepts include increasing the collaboration and communication between security teams and the rest of the engineering organization, treating your security as code, and adding security...