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Cloud Native Architectures

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Product type Book

Published in Aug 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787280540

Pages 358 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Authors (4):

Tom Laszewski

Kamal Arora

Erik Farr

Piyum Zonooz

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

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Foreword

Contributors

Preface

1. Introducing Cloud Native Architecture

2. The Cloud Adoption Journey

3. Cloud Native Application Design

4. How to Choose Technology Stacks

5. Scalable and Available

6. Secure and Reliable

7. Optimizing Cost

8. Cloud Native Operations

9. Amazon Web Services

10. Microsoft Azure

11. Google Cloud Platform

12. What's Next? Cloud Native Application Architecture Trends

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Index

The cloud native toolKit

The tools for cloud native operations can cover many different areas, and the following list is by no means complete. The list simply reflects some of the most important and pivotal tools the authors have used or encountered in their projects.

Slack

For most developers, the thought of using email or any other chat-based service is a nonstarter. Slack represents a shift in the way teams communicate by bringing together human CND teams and bots to create a unified communications platform for making decisions, sharing progress, and operating systems (https://slack.com/).

Stelligent cfn-nag

The cfn-nag (https://github.com/stelligent/cfn_nag) tool looks for patterns in AWS CloudFormation templates that may indicate insecure infrastructure. Roughly speaking, it will look for the following:

IAM rules that are too permissive (wildcards)
Security group rules that are too permissive (wildcards)
Access logs that aren't enabled
Encryption that isn't enabled

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Authors (4)

Tom Laszewski

Tom Laszewski is a leader and cloud technologist who has helped ISVs, SIs, start-ups, and mid-market, and global customers modernization IT systems and develop innovative software solutions. He currently leads a team of Enterprise Technologists responsible for the business and IT transformation strategy with key AWS customers pursuing cloud modernization initiatives and digital transformation efforts utilizing cloud native architecture. He enjoys traveling the world with his teenage sons Slade and Logan.

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Kamal Arora

Kamal Arora is an inventor, author, and technology leader with more than 15 years of IT experience. He currently works at Amazon Web Services and leads a diverse team of highly experienced solutions architects who enable global consulting partners and enterprise customers on their journey to cloud. Kamal has also led the creation of biggest global technical partnerships, set his team's vision and execution model, and incubated multiple new strategic initiatives. He's passionate about the latest innovations in the cloud and the AI/ML space, and their impact on our society and daily-life.

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Erik Farr

Erik Farr is a technology leader with over 18 years in the IT industry. He has been on the leading edge of cloud technology and enterprise architecture, working with some of the largest companies and system integrators in the world. In his current role at Amazon Web Services, he leads a team of experienced solution architects to help global system integrator partners design enterprise scale cloud native architectures. Before AWS, he has experience with Capgemini and The Walt Disney Company, always working to create highly valuable outcomes for customers.

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Piyum Zonooz

Piyum Zonooz is a Global Partner Solution Architect at Amazon Web Services, where he works with companies across all industries to help drive cloud adoption and re-architect products to cloud native. He's led projects in TCO analysis, infrastructure design, DevOps adoption, and complete business transformation. Prior to AWS, Piyum was a Lead Architect as part of the Accenture Cloud Practice where he led large-scale cloud adoption projects. Piyum holds a BSc and MSc. degree in Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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