Best Practices in Architecting Cloud Applications in the AWS Cloud

Cloud Computing: Principles and Paradigms

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 457-490

  Varia, Jinesh ^a  

^a AMAZON   (United States)

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Applications best practices in architecting cloud applications in the AWS cloud; Decoupling components using queues; Elasticity, one of the fundamental properties of cloud elasticity, power to scale computing resources up and down easily and with minimal friction

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EID: 84886185520     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470940105.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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