Preface

Cloud computing has definitely matured and evolved a lot ever since its conception. Practically all major industries and top fortune 500 companies today run their application workloads on clouds to reap all sorts of benefits, ranging from reduced costs, better availability of their applications, and easier manageability to on-demand scalability, and much more! At the forefront of this cloud innovation is a market leader like no other: Amazon Web Services (AWS).

AWS provides a ton of easy-to-use products and services that you can leverage to build, host, deploy, and manage your applications on the cloud. It also provides a variety of ways to interact with these services, such as SDKs, APIs, CLIs, and even a web-based management console.

This book is a one stop shop where you can find all there is to getting started with the core AWS services, which include EC2, S3, RDS, VPCs, and a whole lot more! If you are a sysadmin or an architect or someone who just wants to learn and explore various aspects of administering AWS services, then this book is the right choice for you! Each chapter of this book is designed to help you understand the individual services' concepts as well as gain hands-on experience by practicing simple and easy to follow steps. The chapters also highlight some key best practices and recommendations that you ought to keep in mind when working with AWS.