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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)

Chapter 3. Building Servers Using EC2

Cloud servers are a new infrastructure (rather than on-premises servers) for running applications. Cloud servers are virtual remote machines that can be accessed via the internet. Software can be configured on cloud severs as per our needs. It becomes easy for IT or system administrators to manage cloud servers with minimal configuration, rather than handling traditional on-premise servers. Cloud servers are cheap and offer pay-as-you-go pricing models. So, it becomes inexpensive for small as well as large companies. It also offers a variety of operating system flavors to use. So, we can choose whichever operating system is best suited to our requirements or applications.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • EC2 instance types
  • Amazon Machine Images (AMI)
  • Key pairs
  • Security groups
  • EC2 instances
  • Elastic Load Balancer
  • Auto Scaling groups
  • Elastic Block Storage

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) allows us to create virtual machines on the Amazon cloud. EC2...