Cloud adoption using the AWS Cloud computing ecosystem
MASTERING AWS CLOUD
A practitioner’s guide to cloud adoption using the AWS cloud computing ecosystem.
Mastering AWS Cloud provides a structured path from cloud fundamentals to the architectural, operational, security, and governance decisions required for successful AWS adoption.
Rather than treating AWS as a catalogue of independent services, the book presents cloud computing as an interconnected ecosystem. It connects infrastructure, applications, data, security, automation, cost management, and organizational readiness within a practical adoption framework.
Designed for technology professionals, architects, engineers, managers, and decision-makers, it helps readers understand not only how AWS services work, but how they fit together in real-world cloud environments.
Key Contributions & Practical Methods
01 / Cloud Architecture
A structured examination of AWS infrastructure, networking, compute, storage, databases, integration, and application services—with emphasis on how architectural decisions affect reliability, scalability, and operational control.
02 / Adoption & Governance
Practical guidance for approaching cloud adoption as an organizational transformation involving governance, security, financial management, operating models, skills, and shared responsibility.
03 / Applied Implementation
Real-world patterns for designing, migrating, operating, and evolving AWS environments while balancing performance, resilience, security, automation, and cost.
Book Outline & Core Topics
The book begins with the foundations of cloud computing and the AWS ecosystem, then advances through infrastructure design, application modernization, data platforms, security, automation, governance, and operational management.
Its purpose is to provide a practitioner-oriented understanding of AWS: broad enough to support strategic decisions and technically grounded enough to guide architecture and implementation.
Core areas
- Cloud computing foundations and service models
- The AWS global infrastructure
- Identity, access, and shared responsibility
- Compute, storage, and database services
- Networking and hybrid-cloud connectivity
- Application integration and modernization
- Containers, serverless computing, and automation
- Data processing, analytics, and artificial intelligence
- Security, resilience, and disaster recovery
- Monitoring and cloud operations
- Cost management and architectural optimization
- Cloud migration and organizational adoption
