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AWS for Solutions Architects

By : Alberto Artasanchez
3 (1)
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

Availability in AWS

Most services, including compute, database, and storage services, in AWS are built from the ground up to provide high availability and reliability and to be massively scalable.

Let's look a little more closely at these three core types of services in AWS:

  • Compute services – Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, and other compute services allow the provisioning of computing resources. Enabling high availability and reliability as well as massive scalability can be fully automated and configured using available features such as Auto Scaling, load balancing, and auto-provisioning over multiple AZs and Regions.
  • Database services – Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, and other managed database services give you a plethora of options to automate the deployment process for full-featured databases. Including multiple read replicas (within and across AZs) in the deployment is as easy as picking a few more options during the configuration stage...