Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

Work through exciting recipes to administer your AWS cloud

Key Features

• Build secure environments using AWS components and services
• Explore core AWS features with real-world applications and best practices
• Design and build Lambda functions using real-world examples

Book Description

With this Learning Path, you'll explore techniques to easily manage applications on the AWS cloud.

You'll begin with an introduction to serverless computing, its advantages, and the fundamentals of AWS. The following chapters will guide you on how to manage multiple accounts by setting up consolidated billing, enhancing 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. It'll also add to your understanding of the services AWS Lambda provides to developers. To refine your skills further, it demonstrates how to design, write, test, monitor, and troubleshoot Lambda functions.

By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications.

This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products:

• AWS Administration: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Yohan Wadia
• AWS Administration Cookbook by Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan
• Mastering AWS Lambda by Yohan Wadia, Udita Gupta

What you will learn

• Explore the benefits of serverless computing and applications
• Deploy apps with AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Amazon Elastic File System
• Secure environments with AWS CloudTrail, AWSConfig, and AWS Shield
• Run big data analytics with Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift
• Back up and safeguard data using AWS Data Pipeline
• Create monitoring and alerting dashboards using CloudWatch
• Effectively monitor and troubleshoot serverless applications with AWS
• Design serverless apps via AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway

Who this book is for

This Learning Path is specifically designed for IT system and network administrators, AWS architects, and DevOps engineers who want to effectively implement AWS in their organization and easily manage daily activities. Familiarity with Linux, web services, cloud computing platforms, virtualization, networking, and other administration-related tasks will assist in understanding the concepts in the book. Prior hands-on experience with AWS core services such as EC2, IAM, S3, and programming languages, such as Node.Js, Java, and C#, will also prove beneficial.

Table of Contents

1. What is New in AWS?
2. Managing EC2 with Systems Manager
3. Introducing Elastic Beanstalk and Elastic File System
4. Securing Workloads Using AWS WAF
5. Governing Your Environments Using AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config
6. Access Control Using AWS IAM and AWS Organizations
7. Transforming Application Development Using the AWS Code Suite
8. Powering Analytics Using Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift
9. Orchestrating Data Using AWS Data Pipeline
10. Managing AWS Accounts
11. Using AWS Compute
12. Management Tools
13. Database Services
14. Introducing AWS Lambda
15. Writing Lambda Functions
16. Testing Lambda Functions
17. Event-Driven Model
18. Extending AWS Lambda with External Services
19. Build and Deploy Serverless Applications with AWS Lambda
20. Monitoring and Troubleshooting AWS Lambda
21. AWS Lambda - Use Cases
22. Next Steps with AWS Lambda

Yohan Wadia is a client-focused evangelist and technologist with an experience of more than 8 years in the cloud industry. He focuses on helping customers succeed with cloud adoption. As a technical consultant, he guides customers with pragmatic solutions that leverage cloud computing through either Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, or Google Cloud Platform and make practical and business sense.

Rowan Udell has been working in development and operations for 15 years. He has held a variety of positions, such as SRE, front-end developer, back-end developer, consultant, technical lead, and team leader. His travels have seen him work in start-ups and enterprises in the finance, education, and web industries in Australia and Canada. He currently works as a senior consultant with Versent, an AWS advanced partner in Sydney. He specializes in serverless applications and architectures on AWS and contributes actively in the Serverless Framework community.

Lucas Chan has been working in the field of technology since 1995 as a developer, systems admin, DevOps engineer, and a variety of other roles. He is currently a senior consultant and engineer at Versent and a technical director at Stax. He's been running production workloads on AWS for over 10 years. He's also a member of the APAC AWS Warriors program and holds all five of the available AWS certifications.

Udita Gupta is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and an experienced cloud engineer with a passion for developing customized solutions, especially on the Amazon Web Services Cloud platform. She loves developing and exploring new technologies and designing reusable components and solutions around them. She particularly likes using the serverless paradigm, along with other upcoming technologies such as IoT and AI. A highly animated creature and an avid reader, Udita likes to spend her time reading all kinds of books, with a particular interest in Sheryl Sandberg and Khaled Hosseini.