Yohan Wadia - Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure: Leverage AWS features to build highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable cloud environments

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Yohan Wadia is a client-focused evangelist and technologist with an experience of more than 8 years in the cloud industry. He focuses on helping customers succeed with cloud adoption. As a technical consultant, he guides customers with pragmatic solutions that leverage cloud computing through either Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, or Google Cloud Platform and make practical and business sense.

Rowan Udell has been working in development and operations for 15 years. He has held a variety of positions, such as SRE, front-end developer, back-end developer, consultant, technical lead, and team leader. His travels have seen him work in start-ups and enterprises in the finance, education, and web industries in Australia and Canada. He currently works as a senior consultant with Versent, an AWS advanced partner in Sydney. He specializes in serverless applications and architectures on AWS and contributes actively in the Serverless Framework community.

Lucas Chan has been working in the field of technology since 1995 as a developer, systems admin, DevOps engineer, and a variety of other roles. He is currently a senior consultant and engineer at Versent and a technical director at Stax. He's been running production workloads on AWS for over 10 years. He's also a member of the APAC AWS Warriors program and holds all five of the available AWS certifications.

Udita Gupta is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and an experienced cloud engineer with a passion for developing customized solutions, especially on the Amazon Web Services Cloud platform. She loves developing and exploring new technologies and designing reusable components and solutions around them. She particularly likes using the serverless paradigm, along with other upcoming technologies such as IoT and AI. A highly animated creature and an avid reader, Udita likes to spend her time reading all kinds of books, with a particular interest in Sheryl Sandberg and Khaled Hosseini.

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AWS is one of the biggest market leaders for cloud computing. With this Learning Path, you'll explore techniques to easily manage applications on the AWS cloud.

You'll begin with an introduction to serverless computing, its advantages, and the fundamentals of AWS. The following chapters will guide you on how to manage multiple accounts by setting up consolidated billing. You'll learn to set up reliable and fast hosting for static websites, share data between running instances, and back up your data for compliance. The Learning Path holds much promise when it comes to enhancing your application delivery skills, with the latest AWS services such as CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline to provide continuous delivery and deployment, while also securing and monitoring your environment's workflow. It'll also add to your understanding of the services AWS Lambda provides to developers. To refine your skills further, it demonstrates how to design, write, test, monitor, and troubleshoot Lambda functions.

By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications.

This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products:

• AWS Administration: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Yohan Wadia
• AWS Administration Cookbook by Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan
• Mastering AWS Lambda b y Yohan Wadia, Udita Gupta

If you are an IT professional or a system architect who wants to improve infrastructure using AWS, then this course is for you. It is also for programmers who are new to AWS and want to build highly efficient, scalable applications.

, What's New in AWS?, contains a brief introduction to some of the key enhancements and announcements made to the existing line of AWS services and products.