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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)

Setting up an automated landing zone with AWS Control Tower

AWS Control Tower is a service that helps you set up an automated landing zone using best practices for account management that have been learned from years of working with a variety of customers who have complex multi-account environments. Control Tower is the successor to AWS Landing Zone and relies heavily on AWS Organizations, which will be covered in detail later in this chapter.

In this recipe, you will create a new account to serve as the Control Tower master, and within that account, you will launch your Control Tower environment, which will spawn two additional core accounts: Log Archive and Audit. Then, you will use the AWS Service Catalog to create a new provisioned account. Within a provisioned account, you will attempt to create resources that fail to comply with the guardrails established on the organizational...