Book Image

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)

Leveraging AWS infrastructure services for scalability

In this section, we will shift our focus to the strategies you can use to leverage the AWS cloud infrastructure to scale your applications.

Using AWS CloudFront to distribute content

Try to offload as much content as possible to the AWS CloudFront CDN service for distribution to Amazon edge locations. This can include both static and dynamic content. For example, static content or files would include CSS, HTML, images, and so on, that are stored in Amazon S3 (and not on your web server instance). This can reduce load on your web servers and improve the efficiency of maintaining content (by storing at one S3 location) while reducing latency for your end users and overall...