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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)

Summary


In this chapter, we covered an overview of AWS and the various services offered by AWS. It is very important to choose the appropriate service, which can be efficient, reliable and cost effective. We also covered steps for creating an AWS account, the regions offered by AWS, and the installation of the AWS CLI, which will be used in the future chapters.

In the next chapter, we will be learning about the Identity and Access Management (IAM) service, which is a core part of AWS.