AWS is at the forefront of cloud computing today. Businesses are adopting AWS Cloud because of its reliability, versatility, and flexible design.
The book will guide you to build and manage highly reliable and scalable applications and services on AWS. Also, you will be learning all the necessary skills to design, deploy, and manage your applications and services on the AWS cloud platform. Initially, we will walk you through various web services offered by Amazon. This will help you to get a high-level of understanding of different services.
Moving forward, we will be exploring Amazon IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, and more, to get you well-versed with core Amazon services. Each chapter will contain different ways to access AWS resources such as AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, AWS SDK (Java), and Cloud Formation. Later, you may choose any of the ways to create your cloud infrastructure. The book also contains easy-to-follow hands-on steps, tips, and recommendations, along with security and troubleshooting concepts.
By the end of the book, you will be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications to run on.
Let’s play with Amazon Web Services!
This book targets IT professionals and system administrators looking at designing, deploying, and managing your applications and services on the AWS cloud platform. Developers looking at building highly scalable cloud-based services will also find this book useful. A basic understanding of AWS would be beneficial.
Chapter 1, Getting Started with AWS, briefs you about the basics of cloud computing and what Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers in cloud computing ecosystem. We will have walkthrough on different services offered by Amazon and sign-up processes.
Chapter 2, Configuring IAM, explains how to manage the access to AWS resources. This is a central security service around which all different AWS resources are surrounded for access management.
Chapter 3, Building Server Using EC2, helps you to build highly available and scalable applications using EC2 instances. We will learn how to configure the load balancer and auto-scaling feature, which helps to scale our application dynamically.
Chapter 4, Storing Files on S3, demonstrates how to utilize the cloud storage for more than one. We will learn about how to store data to and retrieve data from S3 and host a static HTML website.
Chapter 5, Managing RDS, lets you set up and operate database over the cloud. We will learn about different database engines supported by Amazon RDS and how to set up the MySQL database instance.
Chapter 6, Implementing DynamoDB – NoSQL Database, lets you create and operate a DynamoDB table. We will talk about auto-scaling the provisioned throughput on the DynamoDB table and secondary indexes, and then we have an example that will demonstrate CRUD operations.
Chapter 7, Implementing Caching Using ElastiCache, guides you through creating a caching server on the AWS cloud. We will learn about caching servers supported by the Amazon ElastiCache service and how to set up the infrastructure.
Chapter 8, Triggering Notifications, lets you create an SNS topic and send notifications to subscribers. We will also talk about push notifications on mobile devices and desktops.
Chapter 9, All about CloudWatch, explains how to monitor the AWS resources and applications to make sure they are up and running. You will learn about different features of CloudWatch, such as Alarm, Metrics, Logs, and Events.
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