Amazon Web Services (AWS) Resources
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AWS Official Resources
Lambda, API Gateway, and Microservices
Getting Started with Serverless Architectures Webinar
Video: several best practices at ~38 min mark
Building Serverless Backends with AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway Webinar
Video: deeper dive into Lambda and API gateway
Whitepaper: overview of AWS microservices and interaction between them
- Controlling Access to API Gateway
- Lambda Limits
- Lambda deployments
Fully managed with AWS Code Pipeline
Most complete option for modeling and automating your deployment steps
Leverages Code Pipeline (workflow automation), Code Deploy (build, test, and package your code), S3 (store code package), and CloudFormation (deployment)
Partially managed with AWS CloudFormation (blog entry with S3 integration)
Primarily focused on deploying your code instead of using the console
- Blog entry on using Jenkins if you already have an environment
- Apache Spark and EMR
Best Practices for Apache Spark on AWS Webinar
Video: a discussion about storage options and best practices with EMR at ~32 min mark
- Using spot instances with EMR
- Transit VPCs
re:Invent 2016 Sessions
Unofficial Resources
ECAR Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
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- Spotlight on Cloud Computing Series
Cloud strategy for Higher Education: Building a Common Solution