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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)

Defining security objectives

Security on the cloud should be a primary area of focus for you because it is a top-of-the-mind issue for your customers. You will need to robustly address these concerns because of the following:

  • Customer trust: Customers come to our site expecting us to protect their information and keep it safe. We need to live up to that trust.
  • Regulatory compliance: Increasingly, various regulations and compliance requirements are putting security front and center, especially for cloud-based data storage and applications. And data privacy is a huge part of that.

In order to protect your assets and data on the cloud, you will need to define an Information Security Management System (ISMS), and implement security policies and processes for your organization. While larger companies may have well-defined security controls already defined for their on-premises environments...