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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 Organizations


So far we have been working out of a single AWS account that we use for development, testing as well as for production purposes, but this isn't the case with many organizations who end up with multiple AWS accounts for a variety of purposes such as multiple environments, compliance issues, and so on. Each account gets governed and managed in its own way with no centralized ownership or control.

AWS Organizations is a simple service that allows you to consolidate and manage multiple such AWS accounts all under one roof. It enables you to group AWS accounts into one or more collective organizations that you can create and manage as a whole.

Here's a quick look at some of AWS Organizations key concepts and terminologies:

  • Organizations: Organizations are consolidated views of all your AWS accounts in one place. Using organizations, you can centrally view and manage each of your AWS accounts under one roof. Organizations provide an additional functionality using which...