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AWS Administration Cookbook

By : Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan
Book Image

AWS Administration Cookbook

By: Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan

Overview of this book

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a bundled remote computing service that provides cloud computing infrastructure over the Internet with storage, bandwidth, and customized support for application programming interfaces (API). Implementing these services to efficiently administer your cloud environments is a core task. This book will help you build and administer your cloud environment with AWS. We’ll begin with the AWS fundamentals, and you’ll build the foundation for the recipes you’ll work on throughout the book. Next, you will find out how to manage multiple accounts and set up consolidated billing. You will then learn to set up reliable and fast hosting for static websites, share data between running instances, and back up your data for compliance. Moving on, you will find out how to use the compute service to enable consistent and fast instance provisioning, and will see how to provision storage volumes and autoscale an application server. Next, you’ll discover how to effectively use the networking and database service of AWS. You will also learn about the different management tools of AWS along with securing your AWS cloud. Finally, you will learn to estimate the costs for your cloud. By the end of the book, you will be able to easily administer your AWS cloud.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Creating a budget


One of the main attractions of using AWS, is its pay-as-you-go model. You only pay for what you use, no more and no less.

Unfortunately, this can sometimes result in what's known as bill shock at the end of the month. This happens when you do something that you might not know is a charged service, or you do not know how much is charged for it, and you don't find out until it's too late. Especially when getting started, users may not fully appreciate the cost of the activities they're undertaking.

There are also ways to optimize your costs on AWS, for example, by transferring at slower speeds, removing external access, and so on. All this means that you should be aware of your cost obligations, and manage them in real time. To this end, you can create budgets that help you be aware of your usage and spending.

While you can create budgets via the AWS CLI tool, it is useful to know how the Billing dashboard works for administration purposes, so we will use the AWS console for...