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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

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned some of the tips and tricks that you can utilize in your daily job to automate and manage your infrastructure. These tips can help troubleshoot any issue and enhance your productivity. You can use these tips during the initial stage while designing your infrastructure, and some tips will help you reduce your AWS bill.

As the internet is filled with infinite resources, I am sincerely thankful to you for spending time reading this book. I hope you learned something new. In this book, you have learned some of the ways to automate an infrastructure. As the cloud world changes almost every day and there is always scope for improvement, you can use these examples as building blocks and build something on top of them. As you continue to learn new technologies and grow in your career, always improve and share your knowledge with the rest of the world. As you are now empowered with this new knowledge, please use it in your daily job or enhance your...