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AWS for Solutions Architects - Second Edition

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Product type Book

Published in Apr 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803238951

Pages 692 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Cloud Computing

Authors (4):

Saurabh Shrivastava

Neelanjali Srivastav

Alberto Artasanchez

Imtiaz Sayed

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Understanding AWS Principles and Key Characteristics

2. Understanding the AWS Well-Architected Framework and Getting Certified

3. Leveraging the Cloud for Digital Transformation

4. Networking in AWS

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

6. Harnessing the Power of Cloud Computing

7. Selecting the Right Database Service

8. Best Practices for Application Security, Identity, and Compliance

9. Driving Efficiency with CloudOps

10. Big Data and Streaming Data Processing in AWS

11. Data Warehouses, Data Queries, and Visualization in AWS

12. Machine Learning, IoT, and Blockchain in AWS

13. Containers in AWS

14. Microservice Architectures in AWS

15. Data Lake Patterns – Integrating Your Data across the Enterprise

16. Hands-On Guide to Building an App in AWS

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

18. Index

Cloud migration patterns - The 7 R’s

There is more than one way to handle migration. The followings are the 7 R’s cloud patterns defined by AWS:

Rehost
Re-platform
Refactor
Relocate
Repurchase
Retain
Retire

Creating a detailed strategy that identifies your workloads’ best patterns is essential to accelerating your cloud journey and achieving your desired business objectives. Let’s learn a full breakdown of the 7 R’s and what each migration pattern brings to the table.

Rehost in the cloud

This method is also commonly known as lift and shift. By rehosting your application in the cloud, you perform the least work to move your workloads to the cloud. Applications are being rehosted as they are in a different environment. Services are simply migrated. Let's say, for example, that you are hosting a simple three-tier application on your on-premises environment that is using the following:

A webserver
An app server
A database server

Using the lift...

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Authors (4)

Saurabh Shrivastava

Saurabh Shrivastava is a technology leader, author, inventor, and public speaker with over 18 years of experience in the IT industry. He currently works at Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Global Solutions Architect Leader and enables global consulting partners and enterprise customers on their journey to the cloud. Saurabh led the AWS global technical partnerships, set his team's vision and execution model, and nurtured multiple new strategic initiatives. Saurabh has authored various blogs and whitepapers across a diverse range of technologies, such as big data, IoT, machine learning, and cloud computing. He is passionate about the latest innovations and their impact on our society and daily life. He holds a patent in the area of cloud platform automation. Before AWS, Saurabh worked as an enterprise solution architect, software architect, and software engineering manager in Fortune 50 enterprises, start-ups, and global product and consulting organizations.

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Neelanjali Srivastav

Neelanjali Srivastav is a technology leader, product manager, agile coach, and cloud practitioner with over 16 years of experience in the software industry. She currently works at Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Senior Product Manager and enables global customers on their data journey to the cloud. Neelanjali evangelizes and enables AWS customer and partners in AWS database, analytics, and machine learning services. She sets the product vision and cultivates new products in incubation. Before AWS, Neelanjali led teams of software engineers, solutions architects, and systems analysts to modernize IT systems and develop innovative software solutions for large enterprises. Neelanjali has held multiple roles in the IT services industry and R&D, focusing on enterprise application management, cloud service management, and orchestration.

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Alberto Artasanchez

Alberto Artasanchez is a solutions architect with expertise in the cloud, data solutions, and machine learning, with a career spanning over 28 years in various industries. He is an AWS Ambassador and publishes frequently in a variety of cloud and data science publications. He is often tapped as a speaker on topics including data science, big data, and analytics. He has a strong and extensive track record of designing and building end-to-end machine learning platforms at scale. He also has a long track record of leading data engineering teams and mentoring, coaching, and motivating them. He has a great understanding of how technology drives business value and has a passion for creating elegant solutions to complicated problems.

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Imtiaz Sayed

Imtiaz (Taz) Sayed leads the Worldwide Data Analytics Solutions Architecture community at AWS. He is a Principal Solutions Architect, and works with diverse customers engaging in thought leadership, strategic partnerships and specialized guidance on building modern data platforms on AWS. He is a technologist with over 20 years of experience across several domains including distributed architectures, data analytics, service mesh, databases, and DevOps.

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