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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By : Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta
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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By: Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta

Overview of this book

With this Learning Path, you’ll explore techniques to easily manage applications on the AWS cloud. You’ll begin with an introduction to serverless computing, its advantages, and the fundamentals of AWS. The following chapters will guide you on how to manage multiple accounts by setting up consolidated billing, enhancing your application delivery skills, with the latest AWS services such as CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline to provide continuous delivery and deployment, while also securing and monitoring your environment's workflow. It’ll also add to your understanding of the services AWS Lambda provides to developers. To refine your skills further, it demonstrates how to design, write, test, monitor, and troubleshoot Lambda functions. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • AWS Administration: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Yohan Wadia • AWS Administration Cookbook by Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan • Mastering AWS Lambda by Yohan Wadia, Udita Gupta
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Introducing AWS X-Ray


AWS X-Ray was first introduced during AWS re:Invent 2016 as a tool that would enable developers to debug their distributed applications by analyzing and tracing the calls that occur between the application and its various components. By analyzing this performance, you can easily isolate and remediate issues caused either due to bottlenecks or errors. The best part of X-Ray is its ability to work with a wide variety of applications and services; for example, your application maybe running on a single EC2 instance or it might even be a highly distributed application containing thousands of Lambda functions! X-Ray can easily get integrated with your code; whether it is written in Node.js, .NET, or Java, and start providing performance metrics for the same. This, along with the support for tracing requests from services such as EC2, ECS, Beanstalk, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, and Lambda makes, X-Ray a really important tool from an application performance management perspective...