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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

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Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
About Packt
Contributors
Contributors
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
What is New in AWS?
What is New in AWS?
Improvements in existing services
Introduction of newer services
2
Managing EC2 with Systems Manager
Managing EC2 with Systems Manager
Introducing EC2 Systems Manager
Getting started with the SSM agent
Introducing Run Command
Working with State Manager
Simplifying instance maintenance using System Manager Automation
Managing instance patches using patch baseline and compliance
Getting started with Inventory Management
3
Introducing Elastic Beanstalk and Elastic File System
Introducing Elastic Beanstalk and Elastic File System
Introducing Amazon Elastic Beanstalk
Getting started with Elastic Beanstalk
Introducing Amazon Elastic File System
4
Securing Workloads Using AWS WAF
Securing Workloads Using AWS WAF
Introducing AWS Web Application Firewall
Getting started with WAF
5
Governing Your Environments Using AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config
Governing Your Environments Using AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config
Introducing AWS CloudTrail
Working with AWS CloudTrail
Introducing AWS Config
Tips and best practices
6
Access Control Using AWS IAM and AWS Organizations
Access Control Using AWS IAM and AWS Organizations
What's new with AWS IAM
Introducing AWS Organizations
7
Transforming Application Development Using the AWS Code Suite
Transforming Application Development Using the AWS Code Suite
Understanding the AWS Code Suite
Getting Started with AWS CodeCommit
Introducing AWS CodeDeploy
Introducing AWS CodePipeline
8
Powering Analytics Using Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift
Powering Analytics Using Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift
Understanding the AWS analytics suite of services
Introducing Amazon EMR
Introducing Amazon Redshift
9
Orchestrating Data using AWS Data Pipeline
Orchestrating Data using AWS Data Pipeline
Introducing AWS Data Pipeline
Getting started with AWS Data Pipeline
10
Managing AWS Accounts
Managing AWS Accounts
Introduction
Setting up a master account
Creating a member account
Inviting an account
Managing your accounts
Adding a service control policy
11
Using AWS Compute
Using AWS Compute
Introduction
Creating a key pair
Launching an instance
Attaching storage
Securely accessing private instances
Auto scaling an application server
Creating machine images
Creating security groups
Creating a load balancer
12
Management Tools
Management Tools
Introduction
Auditing your AWS account
Recommendations with Trusted Advisor
Creating e-mail alarms
Publishing custom metrics in CloudWatch
Creating monitoring dashboards
Creating a budget
Feeding log files into CloudWatch logs
13
Database Services
Database Services
Introduction
Creating a database with automatic failover
Creating a NAT gateway
Creating a database read-replica
Promoting a read-replica to master
Creating a one-time database backup
Restoring a database from a snapshot
Migrating a database
Calculating DyanmoDB performance
14
Introducing AWS Lambda
Introducing AWS Lambda
What is serverless computing?
Introducing AWS Lambda
Getting started with AWS Lambda
15
Writing Lambda Functions
Writing Lambda Functions
The Lambda programming model
Versioning and aliases
Packaging and deploying
16
Testing Lambda Functions
Testing Lambda Functions
The need for testing Lambda function
Testing with a simple serverless test harness
17
Event-Driven Model
Event-Driven Model
Introducing event-driven architectures
Understanding events and AWS Lambda
Exploring Lambda and event mapping
18
Extending AWS Lambda with External Services
Extending AWS Lambda with External Services
Introducing Webhooks
Integrating GitHub with AWS Lambda
Integrating Slack with AWS Lambda
Invoking Lambda using an external application
19
Build and Deploy Serverless Applications with AWS Lambda
Build and Deploy Serverless Applications with AWS Lambda
Introducing SAM
Introducing AWS step functions
20
Monitoring and Troubleshooting AWS Lambda
Monitoring and Troubleshooting AWS Lambda
Monitoring Lambda functions using CloudWatch
Introducing AWS X-Ray
Monitoring Lambda functions using Datadog
Logging your functions with Loggly
21
AWS Lambda - Use Cases
AWS Lambda - Use Cases
Infrastructure management
Data transformation
22
Next Steps with AWS Lambda
Next Steps with AWS Lambda
Processing content at the edge with Lambda@Edge
Building next generation chatbots with Lambda and Lex
Processing data at the edge with Greengrass and Lambda
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Index
Index

Contributors

About the authors

Yohan Wadia is a client-focused evangelist and technologist with an experience of more than 8 years in the cloud industry. He focuses on helping customers succeed with cloud adoption. As a technical consultant, he guides customers with pragmatic solutions that leverage cloud computing through either Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, or Google Cloud Platform and make practical and business sense.

 

 

Rowan Udell has been working in development and operations for 15 years. He has held a variety of positions, such as SRE, front-end developer, back-end developer, consultant, technical lead, and team leader. His travels have seen him work in start-ups and enterprises in the finance, education, and web industries in Australia and Canada. He currently works as a senior consultant with Versent, an AWS advanced partner in Sydney. He specializes in serverless applications and architectures on AWS and contributes actively in the Serverless Framework community.

 

 

Lucas Chan has been working in the field of technology since 1995 as a developer, systems admin, DevOps engineer, and a variety of other roles. He is currently a senior consultant and engineer at Versent and a technical director at Stax. He's been running production workloads on AWS for over 10 years. He's also a member of the APAC AWS Warriors program and holds all five of the available AWS certifications.

 

 

Udita Gupta is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and an experienced cloud engineer with a passion for developing customized solutions, especially on the Amazon Web Services Cloud platform. She loves developing and exploring new technologies and designing reusable components and solutions around them. She particularly likes using the serverless paradigm, along with other upcoming technologies such as IoT and AI. A highly animated creature and an avid reader, Udita likes to spend her time reading all kinds of books, with a particular interest in Sheryl Sandberg and Khaled Hosseini.

 

 

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