AWS Cloud Projects : Strengthen Your AWS Skills Through Practical Projects, from Websites to Advanced AI Applications / Ivo Pinto and Pedro Santos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinto, Ivo, author.

Santos, Pedro, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Amazon Web Services (Firm).

Cloud computing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages)

Edition:

First edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, [2024]

Biography/History:

Pinto Ivo: Ivo Pinto, CCIE No. 57162 (R&S, Security, and Data Center), CISSP, is a principal solutions architect with many years of experience in the fields of cloud, automation, and enterprise and data center networking. Ivo has worked at Cisco in different roles and different geographies, and he has led the architecture and deployment of many automated global-scale solutions for Fortune 50 companies that are in production today. In his latest role, he is responsible for the architecture of multiple ISV products at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Ivo has authored two books, Network Automation Made Easy and Automating and Orchestrating Networking with NetDevOps. Santos Pedro: Pedro Santos is a senior solutions architect with over a decade of experience in the technology industry. With a background in data engineering and cloud computing, he focuses on designing and implementing innovative cloud-based solutions. After experiencing different cloud providers and companies of different sizes, Pedro is now working for AWS where he helps SaaS providers design and improve their products.

Summary:

Tired of resumes that get lost in the pile? This book is your roadmap to creating an in-demand AWS portfolio that grabs attention and gets you hired. This comprehensive guide unlocks the vast potential of AWS for developers of all levels. Inside, you'll find invaluable guidance for crafting stunning websites with S3, CloudFront, and Route53. You’ll build robust and scalable applications, such as recipe-sharing platforms, using DynamoDB and Elastic Load Balancing. For streamlined efficiency, the book will teach you how to develop serverless architectures with AWS Lambda and Cognito. Gradually, you’ll infuse your projects with artificial intelligence by creating a photo analyzer powered by Amazon Rekognition. You’ll also automate complex workflows for seamless content translation using Translate, CodePipeline, and CodeBuild. Later, you’ll construct intelligent virtual assistants with Amazon Lex and Bedrock to answer web development queries. The book will also show you how to visualize your data with insightful dashboards built using Athena, Glue, and QuickSight. By the end of this book, you’ll be ready to take your projects to the next level and succeed in the dynamic world of cloud computing.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: Beginner Level Projects

Chapter 1: Deploying and Interacting with AWS Services

Technical requirements

Architecting on AWS

Requirements gathering

Choosing an architecture pattern

Selecting a service

Diagramming

Exploring the Well-Architected Framework

Getting started with AWS Console

Using the Console

Navigating AWS CLI and AWS SDK

AWS CLI

AWS SDK

Understanding IaC

Using CloudFormation

Using Terraform

Summary

Chapter 2: Creating a Personal Website

Scenario

Requirements

Architecture patterns

Architecture

AWS services

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

Amazon CloudWatch metrics

Coding the solution

Editing the website

Publishing the website

Monitoring the website

Cleaning up

Future work

Implementing custom DNS

Taking security to the next level

Having better observability

Final architecture

Part 2: Intermediate Level Projects

Chapter 3: Building a Recipe-Sharing Application

Amazon S3

Amazon CloudFront

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Amazon EC2

Application Load Balancer (ALB)

Amazon DynamoDB

AWS CloudFormation

Cloning the project

Section 1 - DNS configuration and certificate issuing (option 1 only)

Section 2 - Solution deployment

Section 3 - Additional configurations (option 1 only)

Section 4 - Frontend configuration and deployment

Section 5 - Testing and exploring your application

Section 6 - Cleaning up

Using secure protocols

Infrastructure auto-scaling

Managed hosting and CI/CD

Authentication.

Logging and monitoring

Caching

Chapter 5: Building a Serverless Recipe-Sharing Application

Amazon Cognito

Amazon Lambda

API Gateway

Solution deployment

Frontend configuration and deployment

Test and explore your application

Clean up

Enrich your application with media content

User profile

Chapter 5: Implementing an Image Analyzer to Detect Photo Friendliness

Amazon Rekognition

Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda

Building the infrastructure

Understanding the image analyzer code

Testing your application

Implementing authentication and authorization

Improving your security posture

Implementing custom names

Improving the image analysis algorithm

Hosting your own ML model

Chapter 6: Architecting a Content Translation Pipeline

Lambda@Edge

Amazon Translate

AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild

Building the web application

Building the CI/CD pipeline

Testing the solution

Expanding your application functionality

Adopting CI/CD for infrastructure code

Part 3: Advanced Level Projects

Chapter 7: Implementing a Chatbot Using Machine Learning

Requirements.

Architecture patterns

Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

Amazon Cognito, Amazon API Gateway, and Amazon Lambda

Amazon Lex

Amazon Lex configuration and build

Extend the actions performed by your chatbot

Multilingual support

Maintain user profiles for different sessions

Chapter 8: Building a Business Intelligence Application

AWS Glue

Amazon Athena

Amazon QuickSight

Section 1 - Cloning the project

Section 3 - Clickstream event generator

Section 4 - The Glue ETL job

Section 5 - Data exploration with Athena

Section 6 - Data visualization with QuickSight

Section 7 - Clean up

Automate the ETL pipeline

Data life cycle management

Chapter 9: Exploring Future Work

AWS services overview

Containers

Other API types

Generative AI

Other communication patterns

AWS Pricing Calculator

Pricing the solution from Chapter 2

Pricing the solution from Chapter 6

AWS re:Post

AWS documentation, Solutions Library and Prescriptive Guidance

AWS documentation

AWS Solutions Library

AWS Prescriptive Guidance

Index

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ISBN:

1-83588-929-8

OCLC:

1456759567