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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By : Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta
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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By: Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta

Overview of this book

With this Learning Path, you’ll explore techniques to easily manage applications on the AWS cloud. You’ll begin with an introduction to serverless computing, its advantages, and the fundamentals of AWS. The following chapters will guide you on how to manage multiple accounts by setting up consolidated billing, enhancing your application delivery skills, with the latest AWS services such as CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline to provide continuous delivery and deployment, while also securing and monitoring your environment's workflow. It’ll also add to your understanding of the services AWS Lambda provides to developers. To refine your skills further, it demonstrates how to design, write, test, monitor, and troubleshoot Lambda functions. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • AWS Administration: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Yohan Wadia • AWS Administration Cookbook by Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan • Mastering AWS Lambda by Yohan Wadia, Udita Gupta
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Introducing SAM


The story of SAM starts back with few of the caveats faced by AWS CloudFormations. Although immensely powerful in it's automated infrastructure deployment capabilities, CloudFormations is still a tool that's not that easy to work with and maintain. A simple infrastructure deployment template can range anywhere from a 100 lines to even a 1,000 lines depending on the way the template is authored. More so, CloudFormation lacked the specialized resource types optimized for defining serverless applications which is why project Flourish was established which later on became known as SAM.

SAM is an extension of CloudFormation and basically provides developers with a really simplified way of writing CloudFormation-like templates for serverless services such as API Gateway, DynamoDB and even Lambda.

Note

NOTE: SAM is released under the Apache 2.0 License

The main goal of SAM is to define a standard application model for serverless applications which in turn helps developers design, deploy...