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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

Chapter 10: Microservice and Event-Driven Architectures

This chapter builds upon the concepts we covered in Chapter 9, Serverless and Container Patterns. Now that we have covered the basics of containers and discovered what some of the most popular container implementations are today, we can continue to learn about higher-level concepts that will use containers to create modern, modular, and nimble applications. If your company operates in the cloud, it is very likely that they are taking advantage of the capabilities of the cloud. One architectural pattern that is extremely popular nowadays is the microservice architecture. At the beginning of Chapter 9, Serverless and Container Patterns, we mentioned some well-known companies that use containers. We won't repeat the list of companies again, but you can safely assume that these companies leverage containers to implement many microservices across the enterprise.

In this chapter, we will do a deep dive into the ins and outs...