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Introducing Amazon Web Services

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    Welcome to the journey of becoming an Amazon Web Services (AWS) solutions architect. A path full of challenges, but also a path full of knowledge awaits you. To begin, I'd like to start by defining the role of a solutions architect in the software-engineering context. Architecture has a lot to do with technology, but it also has a lot to do with everything else; it is a discipline responsible for the nonfunctional requirements, and a model to design the Quality of Service (QoS) of the information systems.

    Architecture is about finding the right balance and the midpoint of every circumstance. It is about understanding the environment in which problems are created, involving the people, the processes, the organizational culture, the business capabilities, and any external drivers that can influence the success of a project.

    We will learn that part of our role as solutions architects is to evaluate several trade-offs, manage the essential complexity of things, their technical evolution, and the inherent entropy of complex systems.

    The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

    Understanding cloud computing
    Cloud design patterns and principles
    Shared security model
    Identity and access management

    A widely used strategy to solve difficult problems is to use functional decomposition, that is, breaking a complex system or process into manageable parts; a pattern for this is the multilayered architecture, also known as the n-tier architecture, by which we decompose big systems into logical layers focused only on one responsibility, leveraging characteristics such as scalability, flexibility, reusability, and many other benefits. The three-layer architecture is a popular pattern used to decompose monolithic applications and design distributed systems by isolating their functions into three different services
    Presentation Tier: This represents the component responsible for the user interface, in which user actions and events are generated via a web page, a mobile application, and so on.
    Logic Tier: This is the middleware, the middle tier where the business logic is found. This tier can be implemented via web servers or application servers; here, every presentation tier event gets translated into service methods and business functions.
    Data Tier: Persistence means will interact with the logic tier to maintain user state and behavior; this is the central repository of data for the application. Examples of this are database management systems (DBMS) or distributed memory-caching systems.

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