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Learning AWS - Second Edition

By : Aurobindo Sarkar, Amit Shah
Book Image

Learning AWS - Second Edition

By: Aurobindo Sarkar, Amit Shah

Overview of this book

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the most popular and widely-used cloud platform. Administering and deploying application on AWS makes the applications resilient and robust. The main focus of the book is to cover the basic concepts of cloud-based development followed by running solutions in AWS Cloud, which will help the solutions run at scale. This book not only guides you through the trade-offs and ideas behind efficient cloud applications, but is a comprehensive guide to getting the most out of AWS. In the first section, you will begin by looking at the key concepts of AWS, setting up your AWS account, and operating it. This guide also covers cloud service models, which will help you build highly scalable and secure applications on the AWS platform. We will then dive deep into concepts of cloud computing with S3 storage, RDS and EC2. Next, this book will walk you through VPC, building real-time serverless environments, and deploying serverless APIs with microservices. Finally, this book will teach you to monitor your applications, automate your infrastructure, and deploy with CloudFormation. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with the various services that AWS provides and will be able to leverage AWS infrastructure to accelerate the development process.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Understanding emerging cloud-based application architectures

In this section, we will describe common architecture patterns and deployment of some of the main processing models being used for batch processing, streaming applications, and machine learning pipelines. The underlying architecture for these processing models are required to support ingesting very large volumes of various types of data arriving at high velocities at one end, while making the output data available for use by analytical tools, reporting and modeling software, at the other.

The software platforms supporting such applications have the necessary features and support the key mechanisms required to access data across a diverse set of data sources and formats, and prepare it for downstream applications, either as low-latency streaming data or high-throughput historical data stores. For example, Apache Spark...