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AWS for System Administrators

By : Prashant Lakhera
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AWS for System Administrators

By: Prashant Lakhera

Overview of this book

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the most popular and efficient cloud platforms for administering and deploying your applications to make them resilient and robust. AWS for System Administrators will help you to learn several advanced cloud administration concepts for deploying, managing, and operating highly available systems on AWS. Starting with the fundamentals of identity and access management (IAM) for securing your environment, this book will gradually take you through AWS networking and monitoring tools. As you make your way through the chapters, you’ll get to grips with VPC, EC2, load balancer, Auto Scaling, RDS database, and data management. The book will also show you how to initiate AWS automated backups and store and keep track of log files. Later, you’ll work with AWS APIs and understand how to use them along with CloudFormation, Python Boto3 Script, and Terraform to automate infrastructure. By the end of this AWS book, you’ll be ready to build your two-tier startup with all the necessary infrastructure, monitoring, and logging components in place.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: AWS Services and Tools
4
Section 2: Building the Infrastructure
7
Section 3: Adding Scalability and Elasticity to the Infrastructure
11
Section 4: The Monitoring, Metrics, and Backup Layers

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "The Principal parameter (*) used within the resource-based policies is used to identify the user, account, or role."

A block of code is set as follows:

       { 
           "Sid": "Stmt1604259864802", 
           "Action": "s3:*", 
           "Effect": "Deny", 
           "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::myexamplebucket/*", 

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

           "Condition": { 
               "NotIpAddress": { 
                   "aws:SourceIp": "192.168.1.10/24" 
               } 
           }, 
           "Principal": "*" 
       }

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ cd AWS-for-System-Administrators/Chapter4/html

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on screen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "If you are creating a new user, click on Add user."

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