Amazon Web Services has been the go-to cloud for customers and enterprises for a long time now. The cloud provider has evolved from just an Infrastructure as a Service provider to everything and anything as a service that helps in the development of applications, game development, IoT, big data analysis, customer engagement services, AR-VR, and much more! However, with so many services and products coming up each year, it tends to get difficult for beginners to know where and how exactly to start using these services.
This book is a one-stop shop where you can find all there is to getting started with AWS services, which includes EC2 Systems Manager, Elastic Beanstalk, EFS, CloudTrail, EMR, IoT, 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 and gain hands-on experience by practicing simple and easy-to-follow steps. The book also highlights some key best practices and recommendations that you ought to keep in mind when working with AWS.
This book is intended for any and all IT professionals who wish to learn and implement AWS for their own environment and application hosting. Although no prior experience or knowledge is required, it will be beneficial for you to have basic Linux knowledge and some understanding of networking concepts and server virtualization.
Chapter 1, What's New in AWS?, contains a brief introduction to some of the key enhancements and announcements made to the existing line of AWS services and products.
Chapter 2, Managing EC2 with Systems Manager, provides a brief introduction to using EC2 Systems Manager to manage your fleet of EC2 instances. It also covers an in-depth look at how to work with SSM agents, Run Command, as well as other systems manager features, such as automation, patching, and inventory management.
Chapter 3, Introducing Elastic Beanstalk and Elastic File System, explains how to leverage both Elastic Beanstalk and the Elastic File Systems services to build and scale out web applications and deploy them with absolute ease.
Chapter 4, Securing Workloads Using AWS WAF, discusses some of the key aspects that you can leverage to provide added security for your web applications using AWS WAF and AWS Shield. The chapter also provides some keen insights into how you can protect your web applications against commonly occurring attacks such as cross-site scripting and SQL injections.
Chapter 5, Governing Your Environments Using AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config, introduces you to the concept and benefits provided by leveraging AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config. The chapter covers in-depth scenarios using which you can standardize governance and security for your AWS environments.
Chapter 6, Access Control Using AWS IAM and AWS Organizations, takes a look at some of the latest enhancements made to the AWS IAM service. It also walks you through how you can manage your AWS accounts with better efficiency and control using AWS organizations as a Service.
Chapter 7, Transforming Application Development Using the AWS Code Suite, covers an in-depth look at how you can leverage CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline to design and build complete CICD pipelines for your applications.
Chapter 8, Messaging in the Cloud Using Amazon SNS and Amazon SQS, provides an in-depth look at how you can effectively develop modern cloud-ready, decoupled applications, and perform general housekeeping of your AWS accounts.
Chapter 9, Powering Analytics Using Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift, provides practical knowledge and hands-on approach to process and a run large-scale analytics and data warehousing in the AWS Cloud.
Chapter 10, Orchestrating Data Using AWS Data Pipeline, covers how you can effectively orchestrate the movement of data from one AWS service to another using simple, reusable pipeline definitions.
Chapter 11, Connecting the World with AWS IoT and AWS Greengrass, provides a quick introduction to the AWS IoT Suite of services, along with hands-on guides on how you can connect, test, and monitor IoT devices with utmost ease.
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