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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

Learning about Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

Soon after Amazon released the EC2 service, it quickly released another service – the Simple Storage Service or S3 for short. It was released on March 14, 2006. After the launch of S3, it also launched many other object storage services to complement S3. We will analyze many of those services in this chapter.

S3 Standard

Initially, when Amazon launched the S3 service, it was simply called Amazon S3. Amazon now offers a variety of object storage services and they all use the S3 moniker, so Amazon has renamed Amazon S3 to Amazon S3 Standard.

S3 Standard delivers highly performant, available, and durable storage for data that will be accessed frequently. S3 Standard has low latency, high performance, and high scalability. S3 Standard is suited for a long list of use cases, including the following:

  • Websites with dynamic content
  • Distribution of content
  • Cloud services and applications
  • Data analytics and...