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AWS SysOps Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Eric Z. Beard, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan
Book Image

AWS SysOps Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Eric Z. Beard, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan

Overview of this book

AWS is an on-demand remote computing service providing cloud infrastructure over the internet with storage, bandwidth, and customized support for APIs. This updated second edition will help you implement these services and efficiently administer your AWS environment. You will start with the AWS fundamentals and then understand how to manage multiple accounts before setting up consolidated billing. The book will assist you in setting up reliable and fast hosting for static websites, sharing data between running instances and backing up data for compliance. By understanding how to use compute service, you will also discover how to achieve quick and consistent instance provisioning. You’ll then learn to provision storage volumes and autoscale an app server. Next, you’ll explore serverless development with AWS Lambda, and gain insights into using networking and database services such as Amazon Neptune. The later chapters will focus on management tools like AWS CloudFormation, and how to secure your cloud resources and estimate costs for your infrastructure. Finally, you’ll use the AWS well-architected framework to conduct a technology baseline review self-assessment and identify critical areas for improvement in the management and operation of your cloud-based workloads. By the end of this book, you’ll have the skills to effectively administer your AWS environment.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Exploring the use of Alexa for Business

Alexa for Business allows you to integrate voice recognition devices, such as the Amazon Echo, into your corporate office environment in many creative ways. As someone who has experienced this personally, I can tell you that walking into a conference room, saying "Alexa, start my meeting," and watching the video conferencing equipment turn on and automatically configure itself is a real joy. It's a huge improvement over the usual 5-10 minutes of wasted time at the beginning of every meeting spent troubleshooting the conference phone or the camera on top of the TV. Alexa for Business integrates with your calendaring system, conferencing software such as Chime, and the hardware that sits in the conference room, turning what was once a hassle into a quick, intuitive interaction.

The capabilities of Alexa for Business go beyond...