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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

Facilitating self-service


To increase developer productivity, we must allow our team to experiment with new services and functionality with AWS. AWS releases new features at a rate that makes it hard for security personnel to review. We need to trust our developers in order for them to grow. A low-trust workplace is usually a high-turnover one. Isolated VPCs let developers play as needed while containing any ill-conceived experiments. Letting developers have their own playground is a great practice and will be expanded on in the next section.

 

 

Templates

Amazon and its partners provide a great deal of expertise that we can leverage in their services. CloudFormation templates and Lightsail let you build on known good configurations. Terraform does not provide a comprehensive API for Lightsail because many of the ingredients it uses are standard AWS parts. However, for developers unfamiliar with the infrastructure as code paradigm, it is a good place to get started. Whereas the standard AWS...