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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

Storage


Amazon provides a number of highly available, fault tolerant, and durable storage options we can take advantage of in our products. They span the range from block to object storage. Depending on your product needs, you can use them individually, or compose them as needed. Integration with compute, networking, and security services is a common practice. The mature APIs and instrumentation of the services simplify their use.

 

Elastic Block Storage

Elastic Block Storage (EBS) is the disk type you want to use for the majority of your products. EBS implements a standard block device for EC2 instances. Disks spawned by EBS can be cloned, extended, or attached to other instances. Snapshots can be taken while EBS volumes are in use to ensure Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) of data can be met.

Ephemeral

Cloud resources are meant to be short-lived. That is why the default disk for AWS is the ephemeral type. Once the instance it was attached to is deleted, so is the disk. Do not use this type for...