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AWS for Solutions Architects

By : Alberto Artasanchez
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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

Reviewing the list of available AWS programming languages

As we design our microservice architecture, we need to decide which programming language to use for development. As we saw in Chapter 9, Serverless and Container Patterns, and Chapter 10, Microservice and Event-Driven Architectures, microservices make it easy to use different languages for different microservices since they all communicate through the common RESTful protocol by passing JSON back and forth. As we also learned in these chapters, just because we can use different languages doesn't mean that we should have a mishmash of services, all written in different languages.

Let's spend some time exploring the advantages and disadvantages of the various options. First, AWS offers a version of the SDK in a limited number of languages, so unless you have a compelling reason to go with a different choice, you probably want to stick to one of the supported languages. The supported languages as of May 2020 are as...