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AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide - Second Edition

By : Yohan Wadia
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AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide - Second Edition

By: Yohan Wadia

Overview of this book

Many businesses are moving from traditional data centers to AWS because of its reliability, vast service offerings, lower costs, and high rate of innovation. AWS can be used to accomplish a variety of both simple and tedious tasks. Whether you are a seasoned system admin or a rookie, this book will help you to learn all the skills you need to work with the AWS cloud. This book guides you through some of the most popular AWS services, such as EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, EFS, CloudTrail, Redshift, EMR, Data Pipeline, and IoT using a simple, real-world, application-hosting example. This book will also enhance your application delivery skills with the latest AWS services, such as CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline, to provide continuous delivery and deployment, while also securing and monitoring your environment's workflow. Each chapter is designed to provide you with maximal information about each 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)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Planning your next steps


Well, we have covered a lot of new features and services in this chapter. However, there are still a few things that I would recommend you need to read up on your own as well. First up is the AWS CodeStar!

AWS CodeStar is an amazing service that can help developers create, manage, and work on developing applications, all one place. The integral part of CodeStar that enables this is called projects. Developers can create projects based on predefined templates that contain a supported programming model which is ready to use for developing. You can additionally select hosting for your application from a variety of options that include Amazon EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, and AWS Lambda as well! CodeStar comes with easy connectivity with various IDEs as well: Eclipse, Visual Studio, just to name a few. You can read more about AWS CodeStar at http://docs.aws.amazon.com/codestar/latest/userguide/welcome.html.

The second awesome service worth trying out is AWS Cloud9! AWS Cloud9...