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AWS for Solutions Architects

By : Alberto Artasanchez
3 (1)
Book Image

AWS for Solutions Architects

3 (1)
By: Alberto Artasanchez

Overview of this book

One of the most popular cloud platforms in the world, Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers hundreds of services with thousands of features to help you build scalable cloud solutions; however, it can be overwhelming to navigate the vast number of services and decide which ones best suit your requirements. Whether you are an application architect, enterprise architect, developer, or operations engineer, this book will take you through AWS architectural patterns and guide you in selecting the most appropriate services for your projects. AWS for Solutions Architects is a comprehensive guide that covers the essential concepts that you need to know for designing well-architected AWS solutions that solve the challenges organizations face daily. You'll get to grips with AWS architectural principles and patterns by implementing best practices and recommended techniques for real-world use cases. The book will show you how to enhance operational efficiency, security, reliability, performance, and cost-effectiveness using real-world examples. By the end of this AWS book, you'll have gained a clear understanding of how to design AWS architectures using the most appropriate services to meet your organization's technological and business requirements.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Exploring AWS
4
Section 2: AWS Service Offerings and Use Cases
11
Section 3: Applying Architectural Patterns and Reference Architectures
17
Section 4: Hands-On Labs

Learning about microkernel architecture

The microkernel architecture pattern (also sometimes called a plugin architecture pattern) is another useful pattern to implement microservices. It is important to note that it is also used to build other software and not just microservices. The resulting application created using microkernel architecture can be considered a product. A product is a fully standalone application that can be distributed and implemented in a simple manner without much configuration or extra scripting. The most famous example of an application or product using this pattern is the Eclipse IDE. However, many enterprises also use this pattern to develop external and internal applications.

Another important feature of the microkernel architecture and the reason it is named as such is that the kernel can be extended by installing plugins in the kernel. The kernel provides the core functionality and the plugins allow users to extend the behavior in the manner they desire...