Implementing Cloud Design Patterns for AWS

Preface

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is arguably the most cutting-edge Cloud provider currently available. In the past, data centers were massive entities that often required days to provide resources for applications. With AWS, this barrier is nonexistent. Applications can be scaled almost instantly. Metrics can be gathered with little or no configuration. Moving into the Cloud, however, might not be easy.

This book will act as a small reference guide, with detailed implementation examples, to show how (and how not) to design your applications in a way that makes them tolerant of underlying hardware failures, resilient against an unexpected influx of data, and easy to manage and replicate. You will be able to see both the benefits and limitations ...