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Amazon Web Services Bootcamp

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Amazon Web Services Bootcamp

Overview of this book

AWS is at the forefront of Cloud Computing today. Businesses are adopting AWS Cloud because of its reliability, versatility, and flexible design. The main focus of this book is teaching you how to build and manage highly reliable and scalable applications and services on AWS. It will provide you with all the necessary skills to design, deploy, and manage your applications and services on the AWS cloud platform. We’ll start by exploring Amazon S3, EC2, and so on to get you well-versed with core Amazon services. Moving on, we’ll teach you how to design and deploy highly scalable and optimized workloads. You’ll also discover easy-to-follow, hands-on steps, tips, and recommendations throughout the book and get to know essential security and troubleshooting concepts. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to create a highly secure, fault tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications to run on.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Introduction to AWS


AWS is a cloud computing platform offered by Amazon. It offers a large set of services that can be utilized in various forms. AWS caters for different services, including infrastructure, networking, storage, databases, security, and many more. These different services can be used in the application life cycle. Also, AWS offers a pay-as-you-go pricing model, which means that the user will only pay for services being used, so the user doesn't have to pay any upfront fees to acquire hardware resources.

AWS offers a web service interface for all services. We can also integrate AWS services via web services with various software to make our application management easier. AWS offers multiple regions to create AWS services.

The user has the choice to select the regions based on the application usage so that latency is low. Each region has multiple Availability Zones (AZ), which means you have an option to select Availability Zones where the application will reside, to avoid failure when one availability zone is down but another may be up.