Book Image

Effective DevOps with AWS

By : Nathaniel Felsen
Book Image

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)

Understanding where to focus your effort

Keeping your customers' data safe is the result of keeping multiple layers of the infrastructure and services secured. Because we are in a cloud environment, we don't have access to every layer of our infrastructure. For instance, we don't have physical access to the data centers where our EC2 instances are running. Therefore, keeping each layer secured is a responsibility shared between you and AWS.

The shared responsibility model

In this world of shared responsibility, AWS provides the security of the cloud and, as an AWS user, you are responsible for providing the security in the cloud. In other words, AWS will take care of securing the data centers, the physical infrastructure...