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AWS Cloud Computing Concepts and Tech Analogies

You're reading from   AWS Cloud Computing Concepts and Tech Analogies A guide to understand AWS services using easy-to-follow analogies from real life

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804611425
Length 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marco Tamassia Marco Tamassia
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Ashish Prajapati Ashish Prajapati
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Juan Carlos Ruiz Juan Carlos Ruiz
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Cloud Infrastructure and Core Services
2. Chapter 1: Understanding Cloud Computing – Demystifying the Cloud FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Global Infrastructure behind Cloud Platforms – What Is the Cloud Made of? 4. Chapter 3: Computing – In Cloud We Trust, Everything Else We Compute 5. Chapter 4: Storage – Where Should I Keep My Data and Maybe Publish It? 6. Chapter 5: Networking – So, How Do I Get Inside, Outside, and Across the Cloud? 7. Part 2: Platform Services
8. Chapter 6: Databases – To SQL or Not to SQL for So Many Records… 9. Chapter 7: Identity and Access Management – Who Am I and What Can I Do? 10. Chapter 8: Monitoring – Is Big Brother Watching? 11. Chapter 9: Scalability – I Scale to the Moon and Back 12. Part 3: Application Services
13. Chapter 10: Automation – Look, My Infrastructure Is in Code! 14. Chapter 11: Decoupled Architectures – in Space and Time 15. Chapter 12: Containers – Contain Yourself and Ship Some Containers 16. Chapter 13: Serverless – So, Where Are My Servers? 17. Chapter 14: Caching – Microseconds Latency: Why Are We Always in a Rush? 18. Chapter 15: Blockchain – Who Watches the Watchmen? 19. Chapter 16: What the Future Holds 20. Index 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Serverless architectures

The cloud event is close to its end, but there are still some sessions in progress. In some rooms of the conference center, the cloud provider that is hosting the event is leading some lab sessions. These special sessions allow people to sit down and use their own laptops to connect to a dedicated AWS account and follow some instructions to build a full solution from scratch.

Berta and Raj didn’t want to lose the opportunity to get some practice with some of the AWS services they have learned about so far during the event. They decided to join the lab session about serverless architectures.

The speaker, an AWS technical trainer, is introducing herself and the lab: expectations, pre-requisites, how to get access to the initial environment, and a quick description of the final serverless architecture they will build:

Figure 13.8 – Example of a serverless architecture on AWS

Figure 13.8 – Example of a serverless architecture on AWS

Berta: I’...

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