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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)

Backing up data for compliance

We work with a lot of companies (especially in the finance industry) that have strict rules regarding the minimum time data needs to be kept for. This can become quite onerous and expensive if you need to keep customer records for a minimum of seven years, for example.

Using S3, Glacier, and life cycle rules, we can create a flexible long-term backup solution while also automating the archiving and purging of backups and reducing costs.

We are also going to utilize versioning in order to mitigate the damage caused by a file being accidentally deleted or overwritten in our backup bucket.

How to do it...

Execute the following steps to create an S3 bucket with life cycle policies to migrate data...