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Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801075930

Length 630 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Rajesh Daswani

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Cloud Concepts

2. Chapter 1: What Is Cloud Computing? FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Introduction to AWS and the Global Infrastructure

4. Chapter 3: Exploring AWS Accounts, Multi-Account Strategy, and AWS Organizations

5. Section 2: AWS Technologies

6. Chapter 4: Identity and Access Management

7. Chapter 5: Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

8. Chapter 6: AWS Networking Services – VPCs, Route53, and CloudFront

9. Chapter 7: AWS Compute Services

10. Chapter 8: AWS Database Services

11. Chapter 9: High Availability and Elasticity on AWS

12. Chapter 10: Application Integration Services

13. Chapter 11: Analytics on AWS

14. Chapter 12: Automation and Deployment on AWS

15. Chapter 13: Management and Governance on AWS

16. Section 3: AWS Security

17. Chapter 14: Implementing Security in AWS

18. Section 4: Billing and Pricing

19. Chapter 15: Billing and Pricing

20. Chapter 16: Mock Tests

21. Answers

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Learning about additional compute services on AWS

In this section, we will look at some additional compute services available on AWS and their use cases.

Serverless option – AWS Lambda

So far, we have only looked at server-based computer resources except for AWS ECS Fargate. When we say serverless, we do not mean that the compute resource is running without any servers. Ultimately, servers will house the CPU that offers compute capabilities. The term serverless is just used to mean that the customer does not need to manage any actual servers as this falls within the responsibility of AWS.

AWS Lambda is a serverless offering from AWS that allows you to run code and perform some tasks. AWS Lambda is known as a Function as a Service (FaaS) solution that can be used to build an entirely serverless architecture comprised of storage, databases, and network capabilities where you do not manage any underlying servers.

To use Lambda, you must create a function using a supporting...