Preface

AWS for System Administrators will teach you how to deploy, manage, and operate highly available systems on AWS. You'll start with the fundamentals of Identity and Access Management (IAM) to secure your environment before moving on to AWS networking and monitoring tools. As you make your way through the chapters, you'll get to grips with concepts such as Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), load balancers, auto-scaling, Relational Database Service (RDS) databases, CloudWatch, deployment, data management, and security. In the concluding chapters, you'll initiate AWS automated backups and learn how to keep track of and store log files. You will also acquire a knowledge of AWS APIs and how to use them, along with CloudFormation, Python Boto3 scripts, and Terraform to automate the infrastructure.

By the end of this book, you will be confident in building up your two-tier start-up with all the infrastructure, monitoring, and logging components in place. You will also acquire knowledge of AWS APIs and how to use them, along with Python Boto3 scripts and Terraform to automate the infrastructure.