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AWS DevOps Simplified

By : Akshay Kapoor
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AWS DevOps Simplified

By: Akshay Kapoor

Overview of this book

DevOps and AWS are the two key enablers for the success of any modern software-run business. DevOps accelerates software delivery, while AWS offers a plethora of services, allowing developers to prioritize business outcomes without worrying about undifferentiated heavy lifting. This book focuses on the synergy between them, equipping you with strong foundations, hands-on examples, and a strategy to accelerate your DevOps journey on AWS. AWS DevOps Simplified is a practical guide that starts with an introduction to AWS DevOps offerings and aids you in choosing a cloud service that fits your company's operating model. Following this, it provides hands-on tutorials on the GitOps approach to software delivery, covering immutable infrastructure and pipelines, using tools such as Packer, CDK, and CodeBuild/CodeDeploy. Additionally, it provides you with a deep understanding of AWS container services and how to implement observability and DevSecOps best practices to build and operate your multi-account, multi-Region AWS environments. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with solutions and ready-to-deploy code samples that address common DevOps challenges faced by enterprises hosting workloads in the cloud.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1 Driving Transformation through AWS and DevOps
5
Part 2 Faster Software Delivery with Consistent and Reproducible Environments
9
Part 3 Security and Observability of Containerized Workloads
13
Part 4 Taking the Next Steps

Ensuring a Strong AWS Foundation for Multi-Account and Multi-Region Environments

An AWS account is a logical container for the AWS resources that you create. It provides a structure that can be used to easily manage the access, billing, and isolation needs of a group of related resources.

All organizations start their AWS journey by creating an account and hosting some proof of concept (PoC) workloads on it. As they gain more experience and know-how, their confidence and comfort with cloud services increases. At a certain point, the organizations might decide on migrating their on-premises production workloads to the cloud. Or, even better, they might directly start developing cloud-native applications by leveraging AWS services for maximized innovation.

There is often a pivoting point where they must decide if all their workloads should be hosted in one or multiple AWS accounts. Key drivers behind these discussions are the problems associated with a single account. These problems...