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You're reading from Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure. Leverage AWS features to build highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable cloud environments

Product type Course

Published in Jan 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788835770

Length 690 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Design

Authors (4):

Yohan Wadia

Lucas Chan

Udita Gupta

Rowan Udell

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Table of Contents (29) Chapters

Title Page

About Packt

Contributors

Preface

1. What is New in AWS? FREE CHAPTER

2. Managing EC2 with Systems Manager

3. Introducing Elastic Beanstalk and Elastic File System

4. Securing Workloads Using AWS WAF

5. Governing Your Environments Using AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config

6. Access Control Using AWS IAM and AWS Organizations

7. Transforming Application Development Using the AWS Code Suite

8. Powering Analytics Using Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift

9. Orchestrating Data using AWS Data Pipeline

10. Managing AWS Accounts

11. Using AWS Compute

12. Management Tools

13. Database Services

14. Introducing AWS Lambda

15. Writing Lambda Functions

16. Testing Lambda Functions

17. Event-Driven Model

18. Extending AWS Lambda with External Services

19. Build and Deploy Serverless Applications with AWS Lambda

20. Monitoring and Troubleshooting AWS Lambda

21. AWS Lambda - Use Cases

22. Next Steps with AWS Lambda

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Introducing Amazon EMR

As mentioned earlier, Amazon EMR is a managed service that provides big data analytics frameworks, such as Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark straight out of the box and ready for use. Using Amazon EMR, you can easily perform a variety of use cases such as batch processing, big data analytics, low-latency querying, data streaming, or even use EMR as a large datastore itself!

With Amazon EMR, there is very little underlying infrastructure to manage on your part. You simply have to decide the number of instances you initially want to run your EMR cluster on and start consuming the framework for analytics and processing. Amazon EMR provides you with features that enable you to scale your infrastructure based on your requirements, without affecting the existing setups. Here is a brief look at some of the benefits that you can obtain by leveraging Amazon EMR for your own workloads:

Pricing: Amazon EMR relies on EC2 instances to spin up your Apache Hadoop or Apache Spark clusters...

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