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Amazon Web Services Bootcamp

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Amazon Web Services Bootcamp

Overview of this book

AWS is at the forefront of Cloud Computing today. Businesses are adopting AWS Cloud because of its reliability, versatility, and flexible design. The main focus of this book is teaching you how to build and manage highly reliable and scalable applications and services on AWS. It will provide you with all the necessary skills to design, deploy, and manage your applications and services on the AWS cloud platform. We’ll start by exploring Amazon S3, EC2, and so on to get you well-versed with core Amazon services. Moving on, we’ll teach you how to design and deploy highly scalable and optimized workloads. You’ll also discover easy-to-follow, hands-on steps, tips, and recommendations throughout the book and get to know essential security and troubleshooting concepts. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to create a highly secure, fault tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications to run on.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

EC2 instance


An EC2 instance is a virtual server running on Amazon. An EC2 instance service is exposed as a web service, whereby a user can provision a computing platform to run their application.

AWS Management Console

Go to AWS EC2 Management Console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home.

Launching an instance

Create a new EC2 instance:

  1. Click InstancesunderINSTANCE on the left menu.
  2. Click Launch Instance.
  3. Choose an Amazon Machine Image (AMI). As discussed in the AMI section, we need to choose an AMI that has the required pre-installed software package:

Figure 3.6: Choosing an AMI

Here, we can see that we have the option to select the AMI from different sources:

    • My AMIs: Choose from your own custom created AMI.
    • AWS Marketplace: You can choose from AWS Marketplace where third parties have created AMIs for public use. These AMIs may be freely available or you may be charged.
    • Community AMIs: You can choose from Community AMIs, which are listed by third parties who have made their AMI public.

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