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AWS Networking Cookbook

By : Satyajit Das, Jhalak Modi
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AWS Networking Cookbook

By: Satyajit Das, Jhalak Modi

Overview of this book

This book starts with practical recipes on the fundamentals of cloud networking and gradually moves on to configuring networks and implementing infrastructure automation. This book then supplies in-depth recipes on networking components like Network Interface, Internet Gateways, DNS, Elastic IP addresses, and VPN CloudHub. Later, this book also delves into designing, implementing, and optimizing static and dynamic routing architectures, multi-region solutions, and highly available connectivity for your enterprise. Finally, this book will teach you to troubleshoot your VPC's network, increasing your VPC's efficiency. By the end of this book, you will have advanced knowledge of AWS networking concepts and technologies and will have mastered implementing infrastructure automation and optimizing your VPC.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

EC2, ELB and Elastic IP pricing

EC2 is the infrastructure service that you need to host your application. You need services such as EBS to be attached to EC2. Elastic IP or ELB can be used to expose your service, hosted on EC2 to the end users. The cost of EC2 is dependent on the type of EC2 and the operating system. Discounts are available for reserved instances. We should consider shared instances with on demand usage for costing. Dedicated instances are also available for special purposes. To understand details of pricing, go to https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/.

Getting ready

We will start by short listing regions where an infrastructure can be created, which may be dependent on network latency, compliance, and so on...