Building Resilient Architectures on AWS

Unlock the power of AWS to create resilient cloud architectures on AWS and operate your business efficiently using best practices

Key Features

• Transform chaos into reliability with real-world case studies and cutting-edge methods to design robust AWS architectures
• Minimize downtime and protect business revenue through battle-tested architectural strategies
• Implement scalable architecture solutions on AWS using proven patterns and best practices
• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

Building systems that can withstand failure is key to running a successful business on the cloud. Learn from distinguished AWS experts—Ajit, Imaya, and Rodrigue—who bring over four decades of experience in architecting enterprise-scale solutions, speaking at major AWS conferences, and implementing resilience strategies across diverse industries, as they guide you through building highly available and fault-tolerant applications on AWS.

This book explores resiliency, offering steps to design, build, and operate resilient architectures on AWS. You’ll master data security practices, backup strategies, and automation techniques, helping you build strong defenses and reliable recovery plans for resilience against disruptions. You’ll also learn how to apply AWS Well-Architected pillars to design applications with redundancy, loose coupling, graceful degradation, and fault isolation. With architecture examples, you’ll validate your design’s effectiveness through resilient patterns, performance monitoring, and chaos engineering.

By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with best practices for creating robust cloud infrastructures to ensure business continuity and success and become proficient at creating fault-tolerant systems, optimizing performance, and ensuring reliability across regions.

What you will learn

• Master the key concepts and principles of building resilience in the cloud
• Architect modern applications using serverless and containers following best practices
• Use the AWS Well-Architected Framework to build durable architectures
• Anticipate operational events with chaos engineering techniques
• Understand when and how to use multi-region and cell-based architectures
• Attain highly efficient and reliable workload architectures on AWS
• Navigate the collaborative approach of the AWS Shared Responsibility

Who this book is for

The book is for developers, architects, site reliability engineers, and IT managers who use cloud services for their workloads. It is particularly valuable for those using AWS to develop, deploy, and operate their applications. Prior knowledge of public cloud, architecting highly available infrastructure and applications, software development, deployment, and DevOps practices is assumed.

Table of Contents

1. Understanding Resilience Concepts
2. Implementing Resilient Compute and Auto Scaling
3. Securing and Backing Up Critical Data
4. Orchestrating Graceful Degradation
5. Exploring the AWS Shared Responsibility Model
6. Learning AWS Well-Architected Principles for Resiliency
7. Architecting Fault-Tolerant Applications
8. Resiliency Considerations for Serverless Applications
9. Using Containers to Improve Resiliency
10. Resilient Architectures Across Regions
11. Examples of Resilient Architecture
12. Observability, Auditing, and Continuous Improvement
13. Performing Chaos Engineering Testing
14. Disaster Recovery Planning and Testing
15. Finalize Building Resilient Architecture Using AWS Resilience Services

Ajit Puthiyavettle is an accomplished Principal Solutions Architect with a proven track record of over a decade in architecting innovative solutions that drive business success. His expertise lies in collaborating closely with enterprise clients across diverse sectors, including financial services, healthcare, and life sciences, crafting tailored solutions that align with their strategic objectives. His deep understanding of industry trends, coupled with his technical acumen, allows him to architect solutions that not only meet current requirements but also anticipate future needs. He has presented at various public conferences, including AWS re:Invent, AWS re:Inforce, and AWS Summits, as well as having authored various blogs, workshops, videos, and so on.

Imaya Kumar Jagannathan is an expert architect, technical leader, speaker, and author with over 22 years of rich experience in the technology industry, specializing in designing and building complex, internet-scale applications. He has worked in highly impactful roles at various large organizations and is passionate about creating solutions that prioritize customers and make a meaningful difference to businesses. He is passionate about coaching and mentoring others and finds happiness in witnessing their success. He has presented at several top conferences, including AWS re:Invent, and has authored dozens of articles, blogs, videos, and live events. When not busy at work, he spends time learning about aviation.

Rodrigue Koffi is a technical leader, public speaker, and software engineer at heart with over a decade of experience. He is an author of multiple articles and whitepapers, and a speaker at top industry conferences. Currently working at AWS, he helps customers across multiple industries achieve their resilience goals through observability. He has held various roles, from software engineering to consulting and leading site reliability engineering teams. Rodrigue is passionate about high-scale and distributed systems, continuously expanding his knowledge in these domains. Outside of work, he finds joy in swimming and spending quality time with his family.