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AWS SysOps Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Eric Z. Beard, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan
Book Image

AWS SysOps Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Eric Z. Beard, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan

Overview of this book

AWS is an on-demand remote computing service providing cloud infrastructure over the internet with storage, bandwidth, and customized support for APIs. This updated second edition will help you implement these services and efficiently administer your AWS environment. You will start with the AWS fundamentals and then understand how to manage multiple accounts before setting up consolidated billing. The book will assist you in setting up reliable and fast hosting for static websites, sharing data between running instances and backing up data for compliance. By understanding how to use compute service, you will also discover how to achieve quick and consistent instance provisioning. You’ll then learn to provision storage volumes and autoscale an app server. Next, you’ll explore serverless development with AWS Lambda, and gain insights into using networking and database services such as Amazon Neptune. The later chapters will focus on management tools like AWS CloudFormation, and how to secure your cloud resources and estimate costs for your infrastructure. Finally, you’ll use the AWS well-architected framework to conduct a technology baseline review self-assessment and identify critical areas for improvement in the management and operation of your cloud-based workloads. By the end of this book, you’ll have the skills to effectively administer your AWS environment.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Conducting a technology baseline review self-assessment

Later in this chapter, we will walk through a full Well-Architected review, which is an extremely beneficial exercise, but the process can seem daunting if you are new to AWS. In this recipe, you will conduct what is known as a Technology Baseline Review (TBR) a self-assessment of your technology that is quick and easy to accomplish. You will ask yourself, and your team, a series of basic questions about your architecture that capture the essence of the Well-Architected Framework. These are the most critical elements to have in place, and you should only give yourself a passing score if you end up with 100% affirmative answers.

Be completely honest when you conduct a self-assessment! You can't improve if you gloss over areas where you are weak and pretend you are in better shape than you actually are.
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