In this chapter, we will focus on making your application live on the cloud. As an enterprise or a start-up, you want to ensure your applications are deployed and supported to best serve your customers. We will discuss the tools, approaches, and best practices in deployment and operations that ensure smooth functioning of your applications in production environments. We will also show you how to deploy the sample application in a production environment.
In this chapter, we shall learn about:
- Managing infrastructure, deployments, and support at scale
- Creating and managing AWS environments using CloudFormation
- Using CloudWatch for monitoring
- Using AWS solutions for backups and archiving
- Planning for production go-live activities
