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Practical AWS Networking

By : Mitesh Soni

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Practical AWS Networking

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By: Mitesh Soni

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Overview of this book

Amazon Web Services (AWS) dominates the public cloud market by a huge margin and continues to be the first choice for many organizations. Networking has been an area of focus for all the leading cloud service providers. AWS has a suite of network-related products which help in performing network related task on AWS. This book initially covers the basics of networking in AWS. Then we use AWS VPC to create an isolated virtual cloud for performing network-related tasks. We then provide an overview of AWS Direct Connect after taking a deep dive into scalability and load balancing using the auto scaling feature, Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon Route S3. Toward the end of the book, we cover troubleshooting tips and security best practices for your network. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience of working with network tasks on AWS.

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Basics of Networking on AWS

Introducing cloud computing

Regions and Availability Zones

Security and compliance

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Security groups

Overview of networking services

Billing Dashboard

AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculators

Sample architecture – compute and networking services

Summary

Amazon VPC

Creating and configuring VPC

Creating instances in VPC

Summary

Elastic Load Balancing

An overview of ELB

Creating and configuring ELB

Summary

Auto Scaling

An overview of Auto Scaling

Setting up an Auto scaling in load balanced application

Summary

Amazon Route 53

Overview of Amazon Route 53 concepts

Configuring Amazon Route 53

Configuring Route 53 for a web application

Summary

AWS Direct Connect

Introducing AWS Direct Connect

An overview of AWS Direct Connect components

Summary

Security Best Practices

Shared responsibility model

Identity and access management

Security groups

Network ACLs

Summary

Troubleshooting Tips

Common problems and solutions

Unhealthy targets for Elastic Load Balancing

Not able to connect to Tomcat server

Summary

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Configuring Amazon Route 53

In this section, we will configure Route 53. We will demonstrate the process of domain registration.

To configure Amazon Route 53 follow these steps:

Go to Services | Networking & Content Delivery | Route 53.
Click on Get started now for Domain registration:

Click on Register Domain:

Enter the domain name that you want to register and then click on Check:

Click on Add to Cart for a suitable and available domain name. Click on Continue.
Select the number of years in the Register for year field.
Provide contact details.
You can configure privacy protection also. This concerns whether you want to conceal your contact information from WHOIS queries. If you select Yes, your contact information will be masked. If you select No, your contact information will be publicly available.
Click on Continue.
Verify and purchase the domain name...