Amazon Web Services in action [electronic resource] / Michael Wittig, Andreas Wittig ; foreword by Ben Whaley.

"The largest and most mature of the cloud platforms, AWS offers over 100 prebuilt services, practically limitless compute resources, bottomless secure storage, as well as top-notch automation capabilities. This book shows you how to develop, host, and manage applications on AWS. Amazon Web Serv...

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Online Access (A-Z Journals and Newspapers)
Main Authors: Wittig, Michael, 1987- (Author), Wittig, Andreas, 1984- (Author)
Other Authors: Whaley, Ben (foreword.)
Other title:AWS in action
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Shelter Island, NY : Manning, [2019]
Edition:Second edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Getting Started:
  • What is Amazon Web Services?
  • A simple example: WordPress in five minutes
  • Part 2: Building virtual infrastructure consisting of computers and networking:
  • Using virtual machines: EC2
  • Programming your infrastructure: the command line, SDKs, and CloudFormation
  • Automating deployment: CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, and OpsWorks
  • Securing your system: IAM, security groups, and VPC
  • Automating operational tasks with Lambda
  • Part 3: Storing Data in the cloud:
  • Storing your objects: S3 and Glacier
  • Storing data on hard drives: EBS and instance store
  • Sharing data volumes between machines: EFS
  • Using a relational database service: RDS
  • Programming for the NoSQL database service: DynamoDB
  • Part 4: Architecting on AWS
  • Achieving high availability: availability zones, auto-scaling, and CloudWatch
  • Decoupling your infrastructure: Elastic Load balancing and Simple Queue Service
  • Designing for fault tolerance
  • Scaling up and down: auto-scaling and CloudWatch.