Understanding Serverless Cost Models When evaluating your options for hosting and operating your software, cost is usu‐ ally a key consideration. In recent years, serverless has emerged as a sound choice for teams and organizations looking for simplicity and cost-efficiency. With the com‐ bination of managed services and a pay-per-use pricing model, there is huge […]
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Implementation Patterns and Best Practices for Sustainability In terms of patterns and practices, there are four distinct areas you can focus on for sustainability as part of your daily consumption of cloud services: The following sections discuss each of these in detail. User Behavior When you release a new feature, you assess how your consumers […]
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Planning for high-traffic events A key area in which you will benefit from working with AWS as partners is in preparing to face business-significant occasions such as high-sales events (like Black Friday), new product launches, the opening of ticket sales for a popular event, the release of a much-awaited movie trailer, and so on. Some […]
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Taking services closer to the customers As explained earlier, networking is a crucial element of the cloud, along with comput‐ ing and storage. As data moves from one application to another, one account to another, or one region to another, all three main elements of the cloud must work together. As you know, network resources […]
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Software Architecture You’ve already learned a great deal about serverless architectures, patterns, develop‐ ment, and operating practices in this book. In this section, we’ll explore how they are relevant to promoting sustainability in the cloud by looking at some best practices. A decoupled event-driven serverless application composed of man‐ aged cloud services is a step […]
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Use queues to buffer requests and smooth workloads If your application experiences unpredictable traffic spikes, planning and provision‐ ing the required extra resources can be challenging. For example, if you set the Lambda provisioned concurrency level too high, you’ll end up wasting resources and incurring unnecessary costs. In such situations, you must identify and separate […]
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Run batch jobs during a low energy consumption period Nightly batch jobs that perform data consolidation, engineering analysis, business analytics, payment settlements, and other tasks are common in many organizations. Working with AWS, identify the quieter periods in your cloud Region and schedule your batch jobs during those hours. Batch jobs usually have a predictable […]
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Classification of data and tagging. As part of the solution design for your serverless application, it is a good practice to recognize the data classifications and designate appropriate tags. You can classify data in your enterprise in several ways, depending on the context—sensitivity, shareability, secrecy, durability, etc. If you classify data based on durability, for […]
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Data lifecycle The sheer volume data we produce and consume in the modern digital world is beyond what our brains can imagine. Just imagine the working of the famous flight tracking service Flightradar24. It maps every operating flight across the globe, as shown in Figure 10-10, at any point in time and shows each one’s […]
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Total Cost of Ownership in the Cloud Your monthly bill shows you the obvious, regular cost of running your serverless application in the cloud. There is, however, another cost: the cost of ownership. Total cost of ownership (TCO) is an established concept that helps organizations understand the cost of software over time, not just at […]
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