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AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide - Second Edition

By : Yohan Wadia
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AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide - Second Edition

By: Yohan Wadia

Overview of this book

Many businesses are moving from traditional data centers to AWS because of its reliability, vast service offerings, lower costs, and high rate of innovation. AWS can be used to accomplish a variety of both simple and tedious tasks. Whether you are a seasoned system admin or a rookie, this book will help you to learn all the skills you need to work with the AWS cloud. This book guides you through some of the most popular AWS services, such as EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, EFS, CloudTrail, Redshift, EMR, Data Pipeline, and IoT using a simple, real-world, application-hosting example. This book will also enhance 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. Each chapter is designed to provide you with maximal information about each AWS service, coupled with easy to follow, hands-on steps, best practices, tips, and recommendations. By the end of the book, you will be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications to run on.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Planning your next steps


Although we have covered quite a lot in this chapter, there is still a lot to be covered with Data Pipeline. One of the fastest and easiest ways to get started with Data Pipeline is by using one of the ready made pipeline definition templates.

As of date, Data Pipeline provides the following list of ready-to-use templates, using which you can get started with your own pipeline in a matter of minutes:

You can additionally use these definitions as templates for further customizing and enhancing your own as well. Simply create a pipeline using one of the previously depicted templates, however do not activate them. Edit the pipeline in the architect mode and simple export the pipeline definition locally. Once the template's pipeline definition is saved locally, you can make further changes and enhancements to it or simply reuse components within it to make your own pipeline, as well. The possibilities are endless!

Another cool feature provided by pipelines is the use of...