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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

General considerations


In this section, we will discuss the general considerations that you need to have when designing your application infrastructure. Whilst some of these decisions will only be fleshed out by performing experiments and gaining experience with the tools, many of the solutions that AWS provide are industry standard and are generally well known.

We will cover the following:

  • Considerations around workflow
  • Determining which type of scaling is appropriate for different situations
  • How to plan for durability and ensure reliability and data access speed
  • Ensuring that you're sizing your storage sufficiently

We'll finish our discussion by covering different types of data and storage engines that we have available to us. This will not be exhaustive coverage of everything that AWS provides: that would create a manual several orders of magnitude than we have space for.

Workflow

In the beginning, workflows were relatively simple. You wrote all of your database changes locally as SQL scripts...