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AWS Administration Cookbook

By : Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan
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AWS Administration Cookbook

By: Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan

Overview of this book

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a bundled remote computing service that provides cloud computing infrastructure over the Internet with storage, bandwidth, and customized support for application programming interfaces (API). Implementing these services to efficiently administer your cloud environments is a core task. This book will help you build and administer your cloud environment with AWS. We’ll begin with the AWS fundamentals, and you’ll build the foundation for the recipes you’ll work on throughout the book. Next, you will find out how to manage multiple accounts and set up consolidated billing. You will then learn to set up reliable and fast hosting for static websites, share data between running instances, and back up your data for compliance. Moving on, you will find out how to use the compute service to enable consistent and fast instance provisioning, and will see how to provision storage volumes and autoscale an application server. Next, you’ll discover how to effectively use the networking and database service of AWS. You will also learn about the different management tools of AWS along with securing your AWS cloud. Finally, you will learn to estimate the costs for your cloud. By the end of the book, you will be able to easily administer your AWS cloud.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Recommendations with Trusted Advisor


Trusted Advisor covers four main areas and it is designed to give you some guidance around what are considered best practices for your cloud deployment. The areas covered are:

  • Cost Optimization
  • Performance
  • Security
  • Fault Tolerance

It's available to everyone and free to use—with one fairly large catch. Unless you are paying for Business or Enterprise level support with AWS you only get access to four checks. At the time of publishing there are 55 possible checks.

How to do it...

The good news is you don't need to do anything at all to turn on Trusted Advisor. It's automatically enabled when your AWS account is created and will continue to update for the lifetime of your account.

Go ahead and navigate to the Trusted Advisor section of the AWS web console.

How it works...

The four checks provided for free with this service are:

  • Unrestricted ports: This is a check on the highest risk ports in your security groups. They'll be flagged if they're open to everyone (0.0...