Let’s Ship It — with AWS
Ship a simple web application in the AWS Cloud from the ground up
Watch our on-demand Twitch series, Let’s Ship It — with AWS. Follow along with our hosts as they ship a real application step-by-step. We’ll walk you through the essential building blocks of the AWS Cloud and help you get ready to launch your first web application. Whether you’re ready for deployment or starting from scratch, learn how to design a scalable, secure, and cost-efficient architecture in the AWS Cloud.
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Episode 1: Getting Started on the AWS Cloud
In our first episode, we will show you the application that we are going to build together and how to get started with AWS. You will learn how to create an AWS account and get it ready for production.
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Episode 2: Networking and Security Layers
Now that our account is set up and ready to go, it’s time to get our base networking infrastructure established and deploy our application on AWS.
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Episode 3: Get Ready for Scale
Do you know how to ensure that your application components can scale quickly to be reliable and available? Join us to learn more.
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- Introduction to Amazon Elastic Load Balancer - Application
- Get the most from Elastic Load Balancing for different workloads
- AWS Developer Workshop: How to build multi-region applications in the cloud
- Designing for failure: Architecting resilient systems on AWS
- Amazon's approach to high-availability deployment
- Customer success story | Netflix: Multi-Regional resiliency and Amazon Route 53
- GitHub aws-samples series repo
- Customer success story | Auth0: Multi-Region high-availability architecture that scales to 1.5B+ logins a month
- Introduction to Amazon CloudWatch
- Springfield AWS User Group | Monitoring resources on AWS: CloudWatch metrics and dashboards
- Turbocharging cost optimization with Amazon CloudWatch metrics
- Create an AMI on AWS EC2 tutorial
- Automate image creation in AWS with EC2 Image Builder
Episode 4: Data Strategy
In this episode, we will look at our data needs and explore the best practices for selecting the right database. We’ll also learn about hosting and connecting databases securely.
Episode 5: Production Readiness
Our application is now running in a highly available and secure manner. In this episode, we will talk about some key concepts to help you ensure that your application is ready for prime time: distribution, fault tolerance, and cost analysis.
Episode 6: Onward and Upward
We’ve successfully deployed our application and are ready to scale. We’ll kick this episode off by reviewing the key concepts that we’ve covered so far. After that, we’ll talk about how you can continue to build your skills and speed up deployments with Infrastructure as Code and managed services for containers, databases, machine learning, and more.
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