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AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide

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AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide

Overview of this book

AWS is at the forefront of Cloud Computing today. Many businesses are moving away from traditional datacenters and toward AWS because of its reliability, vast service offerings, lower costs, and high rate of innovation. Because of its versatility and flexible design, AWS can be used to accomplish a variety of simple and complicated tasks such as hosting multitier websites, running large scale parallel processing, content delivery, petabyte storage and archival, and lots more. Whether you are a seasoned sysadmin or a rookie, this book will provide you with all the necessary skills to design, deploy, and manage your applications on the AWS cloud platform. The book guides you through the core AWS services such as IAM, EC2, VPC, RDS, and S3 using a simple real world application hosting example that you can relate to. Each chapter is designed to provide you with the most information possible about a particular AWS service coupled with easy to follow hands-on steps, best practices, tips, and recommendations. By the end of the book, you will be able to create a highly secure, fault tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications to run on.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
AWS Administration – The Definitive Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


So it's been a pretty long and intense chapter so far with lots to learn and try out! Let's have a quick recap of the things covered!

Well we started off with a brief overview of VPCs and its components and terminologies such as subnets, route tables, Network ACLs, Internet Gateways, and much more. Next we had an in-depth look at some of the VPC deployment scenarios and even went ahead and created our first VPC using the VPC wizard. Toward the end, we looked at some key considerations to keep in mind when dealing with security groups and NAT instances and finally topped it all off with some handy best practices and recommendations!