You're reading from AWS for Solutions Architects Design your cloud infrastructure by implementing DevOps, containers, and Amazon Web Services

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789539233

Length 454 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Exploring AWS

2. Chapter 1: Understanding AWS Cloud Principles and Key Characteristics FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Leveraging the Cloud for Digital Transformation

4. Section 2: AWS Service Offerings and Use Cases

5. Chapter 3: Storage in AWS – Choosing the Right Tool for the Job

6. Chapter 4: Harnessing the Power of Cloud Computing

7. Chapter 5: Selecting the Right Database Service

8. Chapter 6: Amazon Athena – Combining the Simplicity of Files with the Power of SQL

9. Chapter 7: AWS Glue – Extracting, Transforming, and Loading Data the Simple Way

10. Chapter 8: Best Practices for Application Security, Identity, and Compliance

11. Section 3: Applying Architectural Patterns and Reference Architectures

12. Chapter 9: Serverless and Container Patterns

13. Chapter 10: Microservice and Event-Driven Architectures

14. Chapter 11: Domain-Driven Design

15. Chapter 12: Data Lake Patterns – Integrating Your Data across the Enterprise

16. Chapter 13: Availability, Reliability, and Scalability Patterns

17. Section 4: Hands-On Labs

18. Chapter 14: Hands-On Lab and Use Case

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Understanding IaaS

Cloud infrastructure services, also known as IaaS, comprise highly flexible, fault-tolerant compute and storage resources. IaaS provides access and full management and monitoring of compute, storage, networking, and other miscellaneous services. IaaS enables enterprises to use resources on an as-needed basis, so they don't need to purchase the equipment.

IaaS leverages virtualization technology. AWS allows you to quickly provision hardware through the AWS console, using the Command Line Interface (CLI) or using an API, among other methods. By using an IaaS platform, a business can provision a whole host of resources and functionality that they have with their current infrastructure without the headache of physically maintaining it. From a client perspective, they might not even be aware that the backend services are being provided by an IaaS platform instead of being a company-owned data center.

As we saw in Figure 4.1, when using the IaaS solution, we...