Monitoring is one of those tasks with no finish line. There is always something that you could add or improve. Because of that, it is important to prioritize the areas on which you will focus most of your efforts, especially at the beginning, or when new services are released. In addition, different services require different levels of attention. For instance, services such as Lambda, S3, or DynamoDB are considered serverless. AWS takes care of almost everything. You don't need to handle failures, security patches, scaling, high availability, and so on. At the opposite end of the spectrum, you have services such as EC2 where, aside from the hardware itself, you control every aspect of the instance, and, therefore, you need to also invest time and effort in monitoring. Luckily for us, most services that AWS creates have a native integration with...
Effective DevOps with AWS
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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.
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Effective DevOps with AWS
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
The Cloud and the DevOps Revolution
Deploying Your First Web Application
Treating Your Infrastructure As Code
Adding Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
Scaling Your Infrastructure
Running Containers in AWS
Monitoring and Alerting
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