Effective DevOps with AWS

Improving performance and cost saving

That new architecture design will typically let you scale your service to hundreds of thousands of users. The next logical step will be to look at how to improve performance and lower costs.

As mentioned previously, one of the most compelling reasons to use AWS is the amount of managed services that can be used in conjunction with your application. A lot of those services are geared toward very specific needs. For instance, if you do a lot of image transcoding, you may look into Elastic Transcoder or if you need reliable systems to send emails, you could look at Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), but some other services are more ubiquitous. In the previous section, we talked about adding more computing ...