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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

Learning about AWS Fargate

Yet another AWS service that is important to understand when it comes to container management is AWS Fargate.

AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for container management that can be used with Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS. AWS Fargate further simplifies the management of these two services and enables users to focus on application development rather than infrastructure management. With AWS Fargate, the provisioning of infrastructure and the management of servers is handled by AWS. The benefits of using AWS Fargate are as follows:

  • Obviates the provisioning and management of servers
  • Reduces costs by matching resources with workloads
  • Enhances security with an application isolation architecture

Why isn't Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS by itself enough, and why would we use AWS Fargate to manage these workloads?

Well, AWS Fargate is not a container management service in itself; it is a method to launch container services.

It...