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    This book provides an overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and how to use its various cloud-based services. It introduces cloud computing concepts and then guides readers through setting up an AWS account. Various chapters cover how to deploy and manage virtual servers, databases, storage solutions, and networking tools on AWS. The book also teaches automation techniques and best practices for security, high availability, fault tolerance and scaling applications on AWS. It aims to equip developers and DevOps engineers with the skills to migrate existing software to AWS and build new distributed systems in the cloud.

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    This book provides an overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and how to use its various cloud-based services. It introduces cloud computing concepts and then guides readers through setting up an AWS account. Various chapters cover how to deploy and manage virtual servers, databases, storage solutions, and networking tools on AWS. The book also teaches automation techniques and best practices for security, high availability, fault tolerance and scaling applications on AWS. It aims to equip developers and DevOps engineers with the skills to migrate existing software to AWS and build new distributed systems in the cloud.

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    This book provides an overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and how to use its various cloud-based services. It introduces cloud computing concepts and then guides readers through setting up an AWS account. Various chapters cover how to deploy and manage virtual servers, databases, storage solutions, and networking tools on AWS. The book also teaches automation techniques and best practices for security, high availability, fault tolerance and scaling applications on AWS. It aims to equip developers and DevOps engineers with the skills to migrate existing software to AWS and build new distributed systems in the cloud.

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    Amazon Web Services in Action

    ABOUT THE BOOK


    Amazon Web Services in Action introduces you to
    computing, storing, and networking in the AWS
    cloud. You'll start with an overview of cloud
    computing and then begin setting up your account.
    You'll learn how to automate your infrastructure by
    programmatically calling the AWS API to control
    every part of AWS. Next, you'll learn options and
    techniques for storing your data. You'll also learn
    how to isolate your systems using private networks
    to increase security. Finally, this book teaches you
    how to design for high availability and fault
    tolerance.

    Whats Inside

    ` 899 /ISBN: 9789351198758 Pages: 424

    Overview of cloud concepts and patterns

    Deploy applications on AWS

    Integrate Amazon's prebuilt services

    Manage servers on EC2 for cost


    effectiveness

    Written for developers and DevOps engineers


    moving distributed applications to the AWS
    platform.

    Authors: Andreas and Michael Wittig

    SUMMARY
    Physical data centers require lots of equipment and take time and resources to manage. If you need a data
    center, but don't want to build your own, Amazon Web Services may be your solution. Whether you're analyzing
    realtimedata, building software as a service, or running an ecommerce site, AWS offers you a reliable cloud
    based platform with services that scale.

    ABOUT THE AUTHORS


    Andreas Wittig and Michael Wittig are software engineers and consultants focused on
    AWS and web development.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS
    PART 1 GETTING STARTED
    1 What is Amazon Web Services?
    1.1 What is cloud computing?
    1.2 What can you do with AWS?
    1.3 How you can benefit from using AWS
    1.4 How much does it cost?
    1.5 Comparing alternatives
    1.6 Exploring AWS services
    1.7 Interacting with AWS
    1.8 Creating an AWS account
    1.9 Summary
    2 A simple example: WordPress in five
    minutes
    2.1 Creating your infrastructure
    2.2 Exploring your infrastructure
    2.3 How much does it cost?
    2.4 Deleting your infrastructure
    2.5 Summary

    5.3 Deploying a simple web application


    with Elastic Beanstalk
    5.4 Deploying a multilayer application
    with OpsWorks
    5.5 Comparing deployment tools
    5.6 Summary
    6 Securing your system: IAM, security
    groups, and VPC
    6.1 Who's responsible for security?
    6.2 Keeping your software up to date
    6.3 Securing your AWS account
    6.4 Controlling network traffic to and
    from your virtual server
    6.5 Creating a private network in the
    cloud: Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
    6.6 Summary
    PART 3 STORING DATA IN THE CLOUD

    PART 2 BUILDING VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE


    WITH SERVERS AND NETWORKING
    3 Using virtual servers: EC2
    3.1 Exploring a virtual server
    3.2 Monitoring and debugging a virtual
    server
    3.3 Shutting down a virtual server
    3.4 Changing the size of a virtual server
    3.5 Starting a virtual server in another
    data center
    3.6 Allocating a public IP address
    3.7 Adding an additional network
    interface to a virtual server
    3.8 Optimizing costs for virtual servers
    3.9 Summary

    7 Storing your objects: S3 and Glacier


    7.1 Concept of an object store
    7.2 Amazon S3
    7.3 Backing up your data
    7.4 Archiving objects to optimize costs
    7.5 Storing objects programmatically
    7.6 Using S3 for static web hosting
    7.7 Internals of the object store
    7.8 Summary

    10 Programming for the NoSQL


    database service: DynamoDB
    10.1 Operating DynamoDB
    10.2 DynamoDB for developers
    10.3 Programming a todo application
    10.4 Creating tables
    10.5 Adding data
    10.6 Retrieving data 266
    10.7 Removing data
    10.8 Modifying data
    10.9 Scaling capacity
    10.10 Summary
    PART 4 ARCHITECTING ON AWS
    11 Achieving high availability: availability
    zones, autoscaling, and CloudWatch
    11.1 Recovering from server failure with
    CloudWatch
    11.2 Recovering from a data center
    outage
    11.3 Analyzing disasterrecovery
    requirements
    11.4 Summary

    12 Decoupling your infrastructure:


    ELB and SQS
    12.1 Synchronous decoupling with load
    balancers
    12.2 Asynchronous decoupling with
    8 Storing your data on hard drives: EBS and
    message queues
    instance store
    12.3 Summary
    8.1 Networkattached storage
    13 Designing for faulttolerance
    8.2 Instance stores
    13.1 Using redundant EC2 instances to
    8.3 Comparing blocklevel storage
    increase availability
    solutions
    13.2 Considerations for making your code
    8.4 Hosting a shared file system backed by
    faulttolerant
    an instance store and EBS
    4 Programming your infrastructure: the
    13.3
    Architecting
    a faulttolerant web
    8.5
    Summary
    command line, SDKs, and Cloud Formation
    application: Imagery
    4.1 Infrastructure as code 93
    9 Using a relational database service: RDS
    13.4 Summary
    4.2 Using the commandline interface
    9.1 Starting a MySQL database
    14 Scaling up and down: autoscaling and
    4.3 Programming with the SDK
    9.2 Importing data into a database
    CloudWatch
    4.4 Using a blueprint to start a virtual
    9.3 Backing up and restoring your
    14.1
    Managing a dynamic server pool
    server
    database
    14.2 Using metrics and schedules to
    4.5 Summary
    9.4 Controlling access to a database
    trigger scaling
    9.5 Relying on a highly available database
    5 Automating deployment: CloudFormation,
    14.3
    Decoupling
    your dynamic server
    9.6 Tweaking database performance
    Elastic Beanstalk, and OpsWorks
    pool
    9.7 Monitoring a database
    5.1 Deploying applications in a flexible
    14.4 Summary
    cloud environment
    9.8 Summary
    Books are available on:
    5.2 Running a script on server startup
    using CloudFormation
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