Amazon Web Services in Action

Amazon Web Services in Action
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By:"Andreas Wittig","Michael Wittig"

Published on 2015-10-17 by

About the Book Amazon Web Services in Action introduces you to computing, storing, and networking in the AWS cloud. The book will teach you about the most important services on AWS.

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Summary Amazon Web Services in Action introduces you to computing, storing, and networking in the AWS cloud. You'll start with a broad overview of AWS and learn how to spin-up servers manually and from the command line. Then you'll explore infrastructure automation with the AWS CloudFormation service, where you can describe a blueprint of your infrastructure as code. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Book Physical data centers require lots of equipment and take time and resources to manage. If you need a data center, but don't want to build your own, Amazon Web Services may be your solution. Whether you're analyzing real-time data, building software as a service, or running an e-commerce site, AWS offers you a reliable cloud-based platform with services that scale. Amazon Web Services in Action introduces you to computing, storing, and networking in the AWS cloud. You'll start with an overview of cloud computing and then begin setting up your account. You'll learn how to automate your infrastructure by programmatically calling the AWS API to control every part of AWS. Next, you'll learn options and techniques for storing your data. You'll also learn how to isolate your systems using private networks to increase security. Finally, this book teaches you how to design for high availability and fault tolerance. What's Inside Overview of cloud concepts and patterns Deploy applications on AWS Integrate Amazon's pre-built services Manage servers on EC2 for cost-effectiveness About the Reader Written for developers and DevOps engineers moving distributed applications to the AWS platform. About the Authors Andreas Wittig and Michael Wittig are software engineers and consultants focused on AWS and web development. Table of Contents PART 1 GETTING STARTED What is Amazon Web Services? A simple example: WordPress in five minutes PART 2 BUILDING VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE WITH SERVERS AND NETWORKING Using virtual servers: 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 PART 3 STORING DATA IN THE CLOUD Storing your objects: S3 and Glacier Storing your data on hard drives: EBS and instance store 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: ELB and SQS Designing for fault-tolerance Scaling up and down: auto-scaling and CloudWatch

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