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Amazon Web Services (AWS) Resources

AWS Official Resources

• • AWS Cloud Transformation Maturity Model

  • AWS Well Architected Framework

  • AWS Security Best Practices

  • AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)

  • A Practical Guide to Cloud Migration

  • AWS YouTube channel

  • AWS Labs on GitHub

  • AWS Official Training and Certifications

  • FERPA Compliance on AWS

  • 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

    • Microservices on AWS

      • 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
    • Cisco CSR Implementation Guide

re:Invent 2016 Sessions

• • Governance Strategies for Cloud Transformation (featuring the University of Maryland)
  • How Harvard University Improves Scalable Cloud Network Security
  • The Cloud Is Enterprise Ready: The University of Arizona

Unofficial Resources

• • The Open Guide to Amazon Web Services

  • Awesome AWS

  • A Cloud Guru Certification Courses

  • Linux Academy Certification Training

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Resources

• Choosing the right compute option in GCP: a decision tree

• Preparing a Container Engine Environment for Production

• Going multi-cloud with Google Cloud Endpoints and AWS Lambda

• Solution Guides

  • Building connected vehicle apps with Cloud IoT Core

  • Best practices for migrating Virtual Machines

• Case Studies

  • 580,000 cores and counting: MIT math professor breaks record for largest ever Compute Engine job

General Resources

• Documentation for Cloud Computing and Data Science
  

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  • Total Cost of Ownership for Cloud Services: A Framework 

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