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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

Amazon Machine Images

Even though there are so many EC2 instance types to choose from, the number of instance types pales in comparison with the number of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) available. An AMI contains the information needed to start an instance. An AMI needs to be specified when launching an instance.

The chosen AMI will determine characteristics of the EC2 instance, such as the following:

  • Operating system: The currently supported operating systems are as follows:

    a. AWS Linux

    b. Ubuntu

    c. Debian

    d. Red Hat

    e. Oracle Linux

    f. CentOS

    g. SUSE Linux

    h. Debian

    i. Windows Server

  • Architecture: The architecture that will be used:

    a. 32-bit

    b. 64-bit

  • Launch permissions: The launch permissions will determine when and where the AMI can be used:
    • Public: All AWS accounts can launch this AMI.
    • Explicit: Only specific AWS accounts can launch the AMI.
    • Implicit: Implicit launch permission is given to launch the AMI.
  • Root device storage: Another option that can be specified when...