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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

Advantage of EC2

In the previous section, you learned about various EC2 instances provided by AWS. Selecting the correct EC2 instance for a given workload means finding the instance family that closely matches your workload's CPU and memory needs. Amazon EC2 provides a wide selection of instances, which give you lots of flexibility to compute right-size resources to match workload needs while keeping your cost low. Let's look at them and understand the key advantages of using EC2.

The diverse set of instances to choose

EC2 offers nearly 400 instances to enable customers to run virtually every workload. You can choose from instances that offer less than a single processor (T3 instances) and up to 96 processors (C5 instances). Memory is available from the hundreds of megabytes (T3 instances) to 24 terabytes (High Memory Instance), the most memory of any major IaaS provider. Network performance ranges from a single Gigabit (T2 instances)to 100 Gigabit (Elastic Fabric Adapter)....