Amazon Web Services in Action - Softcover

Wittig, Andreas; Wittig, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1617292885 ISBN 13: 9781617292880

Publisher: Manning Publications, 2015

Synopsis

DESCRIPTION

Distributed systems are unpredictable, and it can be an enormous challenge to manage around potentially-crippling obstacles like hardware failures, unanticipated changes in load, and network issues. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a platform for hosting distributed applications in a secure, flexible cloud environment. AWS provides a suite of services designed to keep the focus on what an application does instead of the infrastructure required to run it. Whether serving up blog pages, analyzing fast data in real-time, building software as a service, or implementing a massive e-commerce site, AWS provides both a stable platform and services that will scale with every application.

 

Amazon Web Services in Action introduces readers to computing, storing, and networking in the AWS cloud. It starts with a broad overview of AWS, and shows how to spin up servers manually and from the command line. Then, it explores infrastructure automation with the AWS CloudFormation service, where readers can describe a blueprint of their infrastructure as code. Readers will learn how to isolate systems using private networks to increase security, how to use the most valuable AWS managed services available on AWS, and about the benefits of stateless servers. In the end, they’ll look to the AWS model for high availability, scaling, decoupling with queues and load balancers, and fault tolerance.

 

KEY SELLING POINTS

Explains the key concepts of AWS

Gives an overview of the most important services

Allows readers to take full advantage of the AWS platform

 

AUDIENCE

Written for developers and DevOps engineers who are moving traditionally-deployed distributed applications to the AWS platform. No experience with AWS is required.

 

ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY

Amazon Web Services is a platform of services in the Cloud to provide everything needed to run applications―from hosting a private blog, to running one of the biggest websites on earth, analyzing data for cancer research, or providing business applications.

About this title

About the Author

Andreas Wittig migrated the complete IT infrastructure of the first Bank in Germany to AWS. He has a strong distributed systems background and started as a Java developer and was responsible for the first realtime online-banking platform written entirely in Node.js based on Websockets. He implemented DevOps into software teams to help financial industry customers create new products. Today, he runs a business with a focus on consulting and developing of AWS and web technologies.

Michael Wittig was part of the team who migrated the complete IT infrastructure of the first Bank in Germany to AWS. He has a strong algorithmic trading background using AWS to analyze Terabytes of historical financial data and for realtime analytics of financial data using a wide range of technologies and programming languages. Today he runs a business with a focus on consulting and developing of AWS and web technologies together with his brother, Andreas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manning Publications
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1617292885
• ISBN 13: 9781617292880
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 422