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Implementing Cloud Design Patterns for AWS - Second Edition

By : Sean Keery, Clive Harber, Marcus Young
Book Image

Implementing Cloud Design Patterns for AWS - Second Edition

By: Sean Keery, Clive Harber, Marcus Young

Overview of this book

Whether you're just getting your feet wet in cloud infrastructure or already creating complex systems, this book will guide you through using the patterns to fit your system needs. Starting with patterns that cover basic processes such as source control and infrastructure-as-code, the book goes on to introduce cloud security practices. You'll then cover patterns of availability and scalability and get acquainted with the ephemeral nature of cloud environments. You'll also explore advanced DevOps patterns in operations and maintenance, before focusing on virtualization patterns such as containerization and serverless computing. In the final leg of your journey, this book will delve into data persistence and visualization patterns. You'll get to grips with architectures for processing static and dynamic data, as well as practices for managing streaming data. By the end of this book, you will be able to design applications that are tolerant of underlying hardware failures, resilient against an unexpected influx of data, and easy to manage and replicate.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Amazon Web Services
Index

Transforms


Data sources often don't provide useful forms of information. Data and information are two different things. Data needs to be processed into useful forms: information. This sort of processing in traditional setups is usually a process such as ETL, but can also cover encoding changes for media files, natural language processing (NLP), or data mining.

 

Transforms are a natural part of processing data and should be an integral part of your data processing pipeline.

Audio/video (mp4 to mp3)

Elemental MediaConvert is a video transcoding service that can also broadcast. This video-on-demand service allows for broadcasting to multiscreen devices at whatever scale you need. Both audio and video are served by this service using a simple web interface.

Setting up MediaConvert is not currently available using Terraform and can only currently be set up using the API or the AWS Console. This looks to be due to change at some point in the future though, so it pays to keep tabs on the Terraform...