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Learning AWS - Second Edition

By : Aurobindo Sarkar, Amit Shah
Book Image

Learning AWS - Second Edition

By: Aurobindo Sarkar, Amit Shah

Overview of this book

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the most popular and widely-used cloud platform. Administering and deploying application on AWS makes the applications resilient and robust. The main focus of the book is to cover the basic concepts of cloud-based development followed by running solutions in AWS Cloud, which will help the solutions run at scale. This book not only guides you through the trade-offs and ideas behind efficient cloud applications, but is a comprehensive guide to getting the most out of AWS. In the first section, you will begin by looking at the key concepts of AWS, setting up your AWS account, and operating it. This guide also covers cloud service models, which will help you build highly scalable and secure applications on the AWS platform. We will then dive deep into concepts of cloud computing with S3 storage, RDS and EC2. Next, this book will walk you through VPC, building real-time serverless environments, and deploying serverless APIs with microservices. Finally, this book will teach you to monitor your applications, automate your infrastructure, and deploy with CloudFormation. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with the various services that AWS provides and will be able to leverage AWS infrastructure to accelerate the development process.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Using AWS Serverless Application Repository

Developers and customers are facing challenges in finding, cloning, building, and deploying serverless apps. Typically, we need to get help from developers in the community, look at code samples, copy-and-paste the code, ensure they build, ensure they function properly, and ensure the roles and permissions are set up appropriately. Having to do all that is complicated for developers new to the the serverless paradigm.

There are several options to get started with serverless applications. Earlier, these options included AWS blueprints. However, the blueprints are a limited set that AWS creates and curates. It is not open to third parties and typically the functions have a limited scope in terms of the resources while serverless applications are a lot more than that (scalable, available, fault-tolerant, and secure). They are not linked...