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AWS for Solutions Architects - Second Edition

By : Saurabh Shrivastava, Neelanjali Srivastav, Alberto Artasanchez, Imtiaz Sayed
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Book Image

AWS for Solutions Architects - Second Edition

4 (2)
By: Saurabh Shrivastava, Neelanjali Srivastav, Alberto Artasanchez, Imtiaz Sayed

Overview of this book

Are you excited to harness the power of AWS and unlock endless possibilities for your business? Look no further than the second edition of AWS for Solutions Architects! Imagine crafting cloud solutions that are secure, scalable, and optimized – not just good, but industry-leading. This updated guide throws open the doors to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, design pillars, and cloud-native design patterns empowering you to craft secure, performant, and cost-effective cloud architectures. Tame the complexities of networking, conquering edge deployments and crafting seamless hybrid cloud connections. Uncover the secrets of big data and streaming with EMR, Glue, Kinesis, and MSK, extracting valuable insights from data at speeds you never thought possible. Future-proof your cloud with game-changing insights! New chapters unveil CloudOps, machine learning, IoT, and blockchain, empowering you to build transformative solutions. Plus, unlock the secrets of storage mastery, container excellence, and data lake patterns. From simple configurations to sophisticated architectures, this guide equips you with the knowledge to solve any cloud challenge and impress even the most demanding clients. This book is your one-stop shop for architecting industry-standard AWS solutions. Stop settling for average – dive in and build like a pro!
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Index

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about Storage Area Network (SAN) in the cloud with Amazon EBS. You learned about various EBS options and how to choose the right EBS volume per your workload. You further learned about Network Attached Storage (NAS) in the cloud with Amazon EFS and file system-specific workloads with Amazon FSx.

With the ever-increasing amount of data, you need scalable storage to store petabytes of data, and AWS provides Amazon S3 to fulfill that need. You learned about various tiers of Amazon S3, including S3 Standard, Intelligent Tiering, Infrequent Access-IA, One Zone-IA, and S3 Glacier. You further learned about S3 versioning to save a copy of your file and build multi-destination replication.

Later in the chapter, you learned about Amazon S3 best practices and optimized your S3 storage for performance, cost, and security. Finally, you learned about building a hybrid cloud with AWS Storage Gateway and a cloud-native backup option with AWS Backup.

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