
- 328 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Learn Amazon Web Services in a Month of Lunches
About this book
Summary Learn Amazon Web Services in a Month of Lunches guides you through the process of building a robust and secure web application using the core AWS services you really need to know. You'll be amazed by how much you can accomplish with AWS!Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Cloud computing has transformed the way we build and deliver software. With the Amazon Web Services cloud platform, you can trade expensive glass room hardware and custom infrastructure for virtual servers and easy-to-configure storage, security, and networking services. Better, because you don't own the hardware, you only pay for the computing power you need! Just learn a few key ideas and techniques and you can have applications up and running in AWS in minutes. About the Book Learn Amazon Web Services in a Month of Lunches gets you started with AWS fast. In just 21 bite-size lessons, you'll learn the concepts and practical techniques you need to deploy and manage applications. You'll learn by doing real-world labs that guide you from the core AWS tool set through setting up security and storage and planning for growth. You'll even deploy a public-facing application that's highly available, scalable, and load balanced. What's Inside
- First steps with AWS - no experience required
- Deploy web apps using EC2, RDS, S3, and Route 53
- Cheap and fast system backups
- Setting up cloud automation
About the Reader If you know your way around Windows or Linux and have a basic idea of how web applications work, you're ready to start using AWS. About the Author David Clinton is a system administrator, teacher, and writer. He has administered, written about, and created training materials for many important technology subjects including Linux systems, cloud computing (AWS in particular), and container technologies like Docker. Many of his video training courses can be found on Pluralsight.com, and links to his other books (on Linux administration and server virtualization) can be found at https://bootstrap-it.com. Table of Contents
- Before you begin
PART 1 - THE CORE AWS TOOLS
- The 10-minute EC2 web server
- Provisioning a more robust EC2 website
- Databases on AWS
- DNS: what's in a name?
- S3: cheap, fast file storage
- S3: cheap, fast system backups
- AWS security: working with IAM users, groups, and roles
- Managing growth
- Pushing back against the chaos: using resource tags
- CloudWatch: monitoring AWS resources for fun and profit
- Another way to play: the command-line interface
PART 2 - THE AWS POWER USER: OPTIMIZING YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE
- Keeping ahead of user demand
- High availability: working with AWS networking tools
- High availability: load balancing
- High availability: auto scaling
- High availability: content-delivery networks
PART 3 - FOOD FOR THOUGHT: WHAT ELSE CAN AWS DO FOR YOU?
- Building hybrid infrastructure
- Cloud automation: working with Elastic Beanstalk, Docker, and Lambda
- Everything else (nearly)
- Never the end
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Table of contents
- Copyright
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About This Book
- Chapter 1. Before you begin
- Part 1. The core AWS tools
- Part 2. The AWS power user: optimizing your infrastructure
- Part 3. Food for thought: what else can AWS do for you?
- Appendix. Connecting to your EC2 instance
- Appendix
- Appendix
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings