Stratospheric
Stratospheric
From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS
About the Book
With Spring Boot being the leading framework for building applications in the JVM ecosystem and AWS the leading cloud platform, their combination is quite powerful.
This book will teach you everything you need to know to get your Spring Boot application running on AWS.
Throughout this book, we'll develop a web application that seamlessly integrates common AWS services such as SQS, S3, SNS, RDS, Cognito, and ECS using Spring Cloud AWS.
Not only will we focus on developing the application with Spring Boot but also take a detailed look at getting it ready for production. This includes a continuous deployment pipeline, infrastructure-as-code using CloudFormation and AWS CDK, deployment patterns, and monitoring.
The Stratospheric book will become your go-to resource for building production-ready applications with Spring Boot and AWS. It will prepare you for your next project in the cloud.
No previous AWS knowledge required.
Reader Testimonials
Espen Westgaard
CTO and CISO at Datek AS, Norway
Great book covering many best practices of modern cloud based infrastructure setup, application development and operations using Spring Boot and AWS. Regardless of whether you’re a novice or seasoned developer, I highly recommend this book

AbdulRahman elRawas
Software Engineer
This is an excellent book for every Spring Boot developer who wants to level up their knowledge and move their applications to the AWS cloud. I'm still halfway through the book, and it feels like someone is taking me by my hand into the AWS forest of services. The writers went just deep enough (and not too much) into each service they tackled and included practical exercises to follow along the way. That's giving confidence and instilling the learning naturally.
Table of Contents
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Introduction
- Why Spring Boot & AWS?
- Who Should Read This Book?
- Prerequisites for the Hands-On Examples
- What to Expect from This Book?
- Getting in Touch
- Resources
- About the Authors
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Introduction
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Part I: Deploying with AWS
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1. Getting Warm with AWS
- Getting Ready
- Inspecting the “Hello World” Todo App
- Publishing the “Hello World” App to Docker Hub
- Getting Started with AWS Resources
- Inspecting the CloudFormation Templates
- Inspecting the Deployment Scripts
- Inspecting the AWS Console
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2. An Overview of AWS Services
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Amazon Cognito
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
- Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
- Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
- Amazon MQ
- Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
- Amazon Route 53
- Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
- Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- AWS Certificate Manager
- AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- AWS Lambda
- AWS Secrets Manager
- AWS Systems Manager (SSM)
- Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
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3. Managing Permissions with IAM
- Users, Groups, and Roles
- Root Users vs. Individual Users
- Defining Policies
- Creating AWS Access Keys for Each User
- Managing IAM Resources Programmatically
- Best Practices for Managing Permissions with IAM
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4. The Evolution of Automated Deployments
- An Anecdote about Manual Deployments
- Self-Service Deployments with the AWS Console
- Scriptable Deployments with the AWS CLI
- Declarative Deployments with CloudFormation
- Programmable Deployments with CDK
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5. First Steps with CDK
- Creating Our First CDK App
- Deploying a Spring Boot App with a CDK Construct
- Why Not Stop Here?
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6. Designing a Deployment Project with CDK
- The Big Picture
- Working with CDK
- The Docker Repository CDK App
- The Network CDK App
- The Service CDK App
- Playing with the CDK Apps
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7. Building a Continuous Deployment Pipeline
- GitHub Actions Concepts
- Bootstrapping a New Environment
- Deploying a Shared Network
- Deploying an Application Environment
- Building a Continuous Deployment Workflow
- Supporting High-Frequency Deployments with Amazon SQS and AWS Lambda
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Addendum: Configuring HTTPS and a Custom Domain with Route 53 and ELB
- Domain Name System (DNS)
- HTTPS and Transport Layer Security (TLS)
- Registering or Transferring a Domain
- Creating an SSL Certificate with CDK
- Creating an HTTPS Listener Using the Network App
- Associating a Custom Domain For the ELB
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1. Getting Warm with AWS
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Part II: Spring Boot & AWS
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8. The Sample Todo Application
- Features
- Application Architecture
- Domain Model
- Skeleton Application Setup
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9. Local Development
- The Challenges of Local Cloud Development
- LocalStack - Our Local AWS Cloud
- Local Amazon RDS & Amazon Cognito
- Bringing It All Together
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10. Building User Registration and Login with Amazon Cognito
- What’s OAuth2?
- OAuth 2.0 Terminology
- OpenID Connect 1.0 (OIDC)
- Alternatives to OAuth2 & OpenID Connect
- Using Amazon Cognito for User Management
- Using AWS Cognito as an Identity Provider with Spring Security
- Enabling Local Development
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11. Connecting to a Database with Amazon RDS
- Introduction to AWS Relational Database Service (RDS)
- Setting up IAM Permissions
- Creating a Database CDK App
- Strategies for Initializing the Database Structure
- Configuring the Database in the Todo App
- Using the Database for Storing and Retrieving Todos
- Enabling Local Development
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12. Sharing Todos with Amazon SQS and Amazon SES
- Using AWS SQS for Asynchronous Workloads
- Sending Emails with Amazon SES
- Enabling Local Development
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13. Push Notifications with Amazon MQ
- What Are Push Notifications Anyway?
- Push Notifications for Live Updates
- AWS Services for Implementing Push Notifications
- Setting up a Message Broker with CDK
- Implementing Push Notifications in the Todo App
- Enabling Local Development
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14. Tracing User Actions with Amazon DynamoDB
- Use Case: Tracing User Actions
- Amazon RDS vs. Amazon DynamoDB
- Implementing User Tracing in the Todo App
- Enabling Local Development
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8. The Sample Todo Application
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Part III: Production Readiness with AWS
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15. Structured Logging with Amazon CloudWatch
- Logging with AWS
- CloudWatch Logging Terminology
- Status Quo: Logging Unstructured Text
- Logging and Querying Structured Data
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16. Metrics with Amazon CloudWatch
- Introduction to Monitoring Metrics with Amazon CloudWatch
- Sending Metrics from AWS Services
- Sending Metrics from Our Spring Boot Application
- Monitoring Metrics with Amazon CloudWatch
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17. Alerting with Amazon CloudWatch
- Introduction to Alerting with Amazon CloudWatch
- Creating Alarms with the AWS CDK
- Working and Living with Alarms and Incidents
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18. Synthetic Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch
- Introduction to CloudWatch Synthetics
- Recording a Canary Script for the Todo App
- Keeping it Simple
- Automating Canary Deployment with CDK
- Alerting on Canary Failure
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15. Structured Logging with Amazon CloudWatch
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Closing Thoughts
- Conquer the Cloud
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Appendix
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- Technical GitHub Actions IAM User
- Deployment Guide
- Changelog
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- Notes
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