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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

Section 2: AWS Service Offerings and Use Cases

In this section, you'll learn about some common and popular use cases and the AWS services that can be used to support them.

This part of the book comprises the following chapters:

  • Chapter 3, Storage in AWS – Choosing the Right Tool for the Job
  • Chapter 4, Harnessing the Power of Cloud Computing
  • Chapter 5, Selecting the Right Database Service
  • Chapter 6, Amazon Athena – Combining the Simplicity of Files with the Power of SQL
  • Chapter 7, AWS Glue – Extracting, Transforming, and Loading Data the Simple Way
  • Chapter 8, Best Practices for Application Security, Identity, and Compliance