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AWS SysOps Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Eric Z. Beard, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan
Book Image

AWS SysOps Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Eric Z. Beard, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan

Overview of this book

AWS is an on-demand remote computing service providing cloud infrastructure over the internet with storage, bandwidth, and customized support for APIs. This updated second edition will help you implement these services and efficiently administer your AWS environment. You will start with the AWS fundamentals and then understand how to manage multiple accounts before setting up consolidated billing. The book will assist you in setting up reliable and fast hosting for static websites, sharing data between running instances and backing up data for compliance. By understanding how to use compute service, you will also discover how to achieve quick and consistent instance provisioning. You’ll then learn to provision storage volumes and autoscale an app server. Next, you’ll explore serverless development with AWS Lambda, and gain insights into using networking and database services such as Amazon Neptune. The later chapters will focus on management tools like AWS CloudFormation, and how to secure your cloud resources and estimate costs for your infrastructure. Finally, you’ll use the AWS well-architected framework to conduct a technology baseline review self-assessment and identify critical areas for improvement in the management and operation of your cloud-based workloads. By the end of this book, you’ll have the skills to effectively administer your AWS environment.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

AWS Fundamentals

Amazon Web Services (AWS) was the pioneer in cloud computing, launching its offering over a decade ago, and it continues to rapidly introduce new services and features based on customer demand. AWS was developed by Amazon.com when the company decided to turn its expertise in building large-scale, reliable, and cost-efficient internet systems into a product that could be used by customers to host their own sites and services.

At the time of writing, AWS has 136 services listed on its web console, ranging from foundational services such as Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to high-level machine learning services such as Rekognition. The breadth and depth of the services that are available make it possible to implement almost any idea quickly and efficiently your imagination is the only true limit to what you can do. But all of those services mean that you as a developer, systems administrator, or solutions architect have a lot to learn!

Luckily, we are here to help, and if you stick with us throughout the next 12 chapters, you will have a solid foundation for establishing yourself as an AWS expert.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Signing up for an AWS account
  • Understanding AWS's global infrastructure
  • Using the web console
  • Learning the basics of AWS CloudFormation
  • Using the AWS CLI