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AWS Administration Cookbook

By : Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan

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By: Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan

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Overview of this book

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a bundled remote computing service that provides cloud computing infrastructure over the Internet with storage, bandwidth, and customized support for application programming interfaces (API). Implementing these services to efficiently administer your cloud environments is a core task. This book will help you build and administer your cloud environment with AWS. We’ll begin with the AWS fundamentals, and you’ll build the foundation for the recipes you’ll work on throughout the book. Next, you will find out how to manage multiple accounts and set up consolidated billing. You will then learn to set up reliable and fast hosting for static websites, share data between running instances, and back up your data for compliance. Moving on, you will find out how to use the compute service to enable consistent and fast instance provisioning, and will see how to provision storage volumes and autoscale an application server. Next, you’ll discover how to effectively use the networking and database service of AWS. You will also learn about the different management tools of AWS along with securing your AWS cloud. Finally, you will learn to estimate the costs for your cloud. By the end of the book, you will be able to easily administer your AWS cloud.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

Free Chapter

AWS Fundamentals

Introduction

Infrastructure as Code

CloudFormation

The command-line interface tool

Managing AWS Accounts

Introduction

Setting up a master account

Creating a member account

Inviting an account

Managing your accounts

Adding a service control policy

Storage and Content Delivery

Introduction

Storage

Hosting a static website

Caching a website

Working with network storage

Backing up data for compliance

Using AWS Compute

Introduction

Creating a key pair

Launching an instance

Attaching storage

Securely accessing private instances

Auto scaling an application server

Creating machine images

Creating security groups

Creating a load balancer

Management Tools

Introduction

Auditing your AWS account

Recommendations with Trusted Advisor

Creating e-mail alarms

Publishing custom metrics in CloudWatch

Creating monitoring dashboards

Creating a budget

Feeding log files into CloudWatch logs

Database Services

Introduction

Creating a database with automatic failover

Creating a NAT gateway

Creating a database read-replica

Promoting a read-replica to master

Creating a one-time database backup

Restoring a database from a snapshot

Migrating a database

Calculating DyanmoDB performance

Networking

Introduction

Building a secure network

Creating a NAT gateway

Canary deployment via DNS

Hosting a domain

Routing based on location with failover

Network logging and troubleshooting

Security and Identity

Introduction

Federating with your AWS account

Creating SSL certificates

Active Directory as a service

Creating users

Creating instance roles

Cross-account user roles

Storing secrets

Estimating Costs

Introduction

Calculating costs

Estimating CloudFormation template costs

Purchasing reserved instances

Estimating total cost of ownership

Creating a database read-replica

This recipe will show you how to create an RDS read-replica. You can use read-replicas in order to increase the performance of your application by off-loading database reads to a separate database instance. You can provision up to five read-replicas per source DB.

Read-only database slaves

Getting ready

You will need an RDS DB deployed with backup retention enabled. We are going to build upon the DB deployed in the previous Creating a database with automatic failover recipe.

You're going to need the following values:

The identifier for your source RDS instance, for example, eexocwv5k5kv5z
A unique identifier for the read-replicate we're going to create, for example, read-replica-1

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