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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

Understanding the serverless AWS microservice architecture

Now that we have thoroughly covered the different languages that can be used to implement our microservice architecture and the pros and cons for each, let's analyze how we can implement a microservice architecture in AWS that fully takes advantage of the many serverless services offered by AWS. We will keep the design high level and will not prescribe a specific language for the implementation. You should be able to transfer the concepts covered and use this design in your project regardless of the programming language that you or your firm favors.

Let's start looking at the design for our serverless microservice application. First, we'll present the high-level architecture and afterward, we'll analyze each individual component or domain independently in detail:

Figure 14.2 – Serverless web-application architecture

As you can see, the architecture provides services for...