Chapter 7. Deploying to Production and Going Live
In this chapter, we will focus on getting your application live in the cloud. As an enterprise, or a start-up, you want to ensure that your applications are deployed and supported appropriately to best serve your customers. We will discuss tools, approaches, and the best practices in deployment and operations that ensure smooth functioning of your applications in production environments. We will also show you how to deploy a sample application in a production environment.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- 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
