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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

Exploring Amazon S3 best practices

Amazon S3 is one of the simplest services in AWS and at the same time, it is one of the most powerful and scalable services as well. We can easily scale our Amazon S3 applications to be able to process thousands of requests per second while uploading and retrieving files. This scalability can be achieved "out of the box" and without needing to provision any resources or servers.

Some customers in AWS are already leveraging Amazon S3 to host petabyte-scale data lakes and other applications storing billions of objects and performing billions of requests. These applications, with little optimization, can upload and retrieve multiple terabytes of data per second.

Other customers that have low latency requirements have been able to use Amazon S3 and other Amazon file storage services to achieve consistent low latency for small objects. Being able to retrieve this kind of object in 100 to 200 milliseconds is not uncommon.

For bigger objects...