Implementing Microservices on aws aws whitepaper

Implementing
Microservices on AWS
AWS Whitepaper

Implementing Microservices on AWS AWS Whitepaper
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Implementing Microservices on AWS AWS Whitepaper
Table of Contents
Abstract and introduction .................................................................................................................... i
Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 1
Are you Well-Architected? ........................................................................................................... 2
Modernizing to microservices ....................................................................................................... 2
Simple microservices architecture on AWS ............................................................................................. 3
User interface ............................................................................................................................ 3
Microservices ............................................................................................................................. 4
Microservices implementations ............................................................................................ 4
Continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) ............................................................ 4
Private networking ..................................................................................................................... 5
Data store ................................................................................................................................. 5
Simplifying operations ................................................................................................................ 5
Deploying Lambda-based applications .................................................................................. 6
Abstracting multi-tenancy complexities ................................................................................. 7
API management ................................................................................................................ 7
Microservices on serverless technologies ............................................................................................... 8
Resilient, efficient, and cost-optimized systems .................................................................................... 10
Disaster recovery (DR) ............................................................................................................... 10
High availability (HA) ................................................................................................................ 10
Distributed systems components ........................................................................................................ 11
Distributed data management ........................................................................................................... 12
Configuration management ............................................................................................................... 14
Secrets management ................................................................................................................ 14
Cost optimization and sustainability ................................................................................................... 15
Communication mechanisms .............................................................................................................. 16
REST-based communication ....................................................................................................... 16
GraphQL-based communication .................................................................................................. 16
gRPC-based communication ....................................................................................................... 16
Asynchronous messaging and event passing ................................................................................ 16
Orchestration and state management ......................................................................................... 18
Observability ................................................................................................................................... 20
Monitoring ............................................................................................................................... 20
Centralizing logs ...................................................................................................................... 21
Distributed tracing .................................................................................................................... 22
Log analysis on AWS ................................................................................................................ 23
Other options for analysis ......................................................................................................... 24
Managing chattiness in microservices communication ........................................................................... 26
Using protocols and caching ...................................................................................................... 26
Auditing .......................................................................................................................................... 27
Resource inventory and change management .............................................................................. 27
Conclusion ....................................................................................................................................... 29
Contributors .................................................................................................................................... 30
Document history ............................................................................................................................. 31
Notices ............................................................................................................................................ 32
AWS Glossary .................................................................................................................................. 33
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