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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 Amazon Elastic Beanstalk


One of the key features of a cloud is to provide its users and developers with a seamless and easy to use platform for developing and deploying their applications. That's exactly where Elastic Beanstalk comes in. Elastic Beanstalk was first launched in the year 2011, and has continuously evolved to become a full-fledged PaaS offering from AWS.

Elastic Beanstalk is your one-stop shop for quickly deploying and managing your web applications in AWS. All you need to do is upload your code to Beanstalk, and voila! Elastic Beanstalk takes care of the entire application's deployment process, from EC2 capacity provisioning to auto-scaling the instances and even load balancing using an ELB! Elastic Beanstalk does it all so that you can concentrate on more important tasks, such as developing your applications and not getting bogged down with complex operational nuances.

But for me, Beanstalk is much more than just the deployment and management of your applications...