AWS for Solutions Architects - Second Edition

Become a master Solutions Architect with this comprehensive guide, featuring cloud design patterns and real-world solutions for building scalable, secure, and highly available systems

Key Features:

Gain expertise in automating, networking, migrating, and adopting cloud technologies using AWS
Use streaming analytics, big data, AI/ML, IoT, quantum computing, and blockchain to transform your business
Upskill yourself as an AWS solutions architect and explore details of the new AWS certification

Book Description:

Are you excited to harness the power of AWS and unlock endless possibilities for your business? Look no further than the second edition of AWS for Solutions Architects! Packed with all-new content, this book is a must-have guide for anyone looking to build scalable cloud solutions and drive digital transformation using AWS.

With a focus on solution-building and best practices, this updated edition offers in-depth information on the AWS Well-Architected Framework design pillars, cloud-native design patterns, and more. You'll learn about networking in AWS, including edge networking and building hybrid cloud connectivity, as well as big data and streaming data processing with EMR, Glue, Kinesis, and MSK. And with entirely new chapters on CloudOps and emerging technologies like machine learning, IoT, and blockchain, you'll gain valuable insights into how to design industry-standard AWS architectures that meet your organization's technological and business requirements.

The book also includes new sections on storage in AWS, containers with ECS and EKS, and data lake patterns, including AWS Lake Formation, lakehouse architecture, and data mesh architecture. Whether you're an experienced solutions architect or just getting started with AWS, this book has everything you need to build cloud-native workloads and enterprise solutions with confidence.


What You Will Learn:

Optimize your Cloud Workload using the AWS Well-Architected Framework
Learn methods to migrate your workload using the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework
Apply cloud automation at various layers of application workload to increase efficiency
Build a landing zone in AWS and hybrid cloud setups with deep networking techniques
Select reference architectures for business scenarios, like data lakes, containers, and serverless apps
Apply emerging technologies in your architecture, including AI/ML, IoT
and blockchain

Who this book is for:

This book is for application and enterprise architects, developers, and operations engineers who want to become well versed with AWS architectural patterns, best practices, and advanced techniques to build scalable, secure, highly available, highly tolerant, and cost-effective solutions in the cloud. Existing AWS users are bound to learn the most, but it will also help those curious about how leveraging AWS can benefit their organization.

Prior knowledge of any computing language is not needed, and there's little to no code. Prior experience in software architecture design will prove helpful.