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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

Investigating Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

Amazon EFS is not that different from Amazon EBS. Amazon EFS implements an elastic fully-managed Network File System (NFS) that can be leveraged by other AWS cloud services and on-premises infrastructure. The main difference is that several EC2 instances can be mounted to an EFS volume at the same time. Amazon EFS provides shared file storage that can elastically adjust on demand to expand or shrink depending on how much space your workloads require. It can grow and shrink as you add and remove files. Other than that, the structure will be like it is with Amazon EBS. Amazon EFS provides a typical file storage system where files can be organized into directories and subdirectories.

Common use cases for EFS volumes are also like EBS volumes. They are often used for the following:

  • Hosting content management systems
  • Hosting CRM applications that need to be hosted within the AWS data center but need to be managed by the AWS customer...