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You're reading from Learning AWS Design, build, and deploy responsive applications using AWS Cloud components

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787281066

Length 412 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Amit Shah

Aurobindo Sarkar

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Cloud 101 – Understanding the Basics FREE CHAPTER

2. Designing Cloud Applications

3. Introducing AWS Components

4. Designing for and Implementing Scalability

5. Designing for and Implementing High Availability

6. Designing for and Implementing Security

7. Deploying to Production and Going Live

8. Designing a Big Data Application

9. Implementing a Big Data Application

10. Deploying a Big Data System

11. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Nature of failures

There are many types of failures that can happen at any time. These could be a result of disk failures, power outages, natural disasters, software errors, and human errors. In addition, there are several points of failure in any given cloud application. These could include DNS or domain services, load balancers, web and application servers, database servers, application services-related failures, data center-related failures, and so on. You will need to ensure that you have a mitigation strategy for each of these types or points of failure.

It is highly recommended that you automate your recovery strategy and thoroughly test as many of these processes as possible.

Currently, the AWS Cloud operates 44 Availability Zones (AZs) within 16 geographic Regions around the world, with announced plans for 17 more Availability Zones and six more regions. The high-speed...

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Authors (2)

Sarkar

Aurobindo Sarkar leads a team of data scientists and engineers at Session AI, developing cloud-based ML models for in-session marketing in e-commerce and retail. As a former CTO at multiple SaaS startups, he has architected secure, scalable, and highly available AWS cloud applications. His research interests now focus on AWS-based large-scale transformer models for NLP and HFT models for the futures and options market. Aurobindo holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from IIT Delhi, a master's in management from the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, and a master's in computer science from New York University.

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Shah

Snehal Shah has extensive experience in implementing enterprise web applications using J2EE technologies. He is the co-founder of Techforce Infotech where he has worked on various J2EE based solutions, various open source product customizations, and worked on business expansion. He was also involved in building a team and finalizing the technology path for the organization. At his previous employer, CIGNEX Datamatics, he rolled out numerous Alfresco deployments worldwide in the areas of document management, web content management, and Share. He has also worked on application-based Liferay and Moodle products. Prior to CIGNEX, he has worked on various J2EE-based solutions using cutting edge technologies. He has worked with clients in education, legal, and marketing domains across the world. He has worked on defining architecture for various projects, which involves multiple product integrations. In his previous organizations, he was involved in deciding the technology path of the organization and was also involved in various internal technical training. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Engineering from Deemed University, DDIT India. He has also worked as a Technical Reviewer for the books Alfresco 3 Cookbook and Alfresco Share.

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