Summary
Amazon Web Services in Action, Second Edition is a comprehensive
introduction to computing, storing, and networking in the AWS cloud.
You'll find clear, relevant coverage of all the essential AWS services
you to know, emphasizing best practices for security, high availability
and scalability.
Foreword by Ben Whaley, AWS community hero and author.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and
ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the Technology
The largest and most mature of the cloud platforms, AWS offers over 100
prebuilt services, practically limitless compute resources, bottomless
secure storage, as well as top-notch automation capabilities. This book
shows you how to develop, host, and manage applications on AWS.
About the Book
Amazon Web Services in Action, Second Edition is a comprehensive
introduction to deploying web applications in the AWS cloud. You'll find
clear, relevant coverage of all essential AWS services, with a focus on
automation, security, high availability, and scalability. This
thoroughly revised edition covers the latest additions to AWS, including
serverless infrastructure with AWS Lambda, sharing data with EFS, and
in-memory storage with ElastiCache.
What's inside
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Completely revised bestseller
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Secure and scale distributed applications
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Deploy applications on AWS
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Design for failure to achieve high availability
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Automate your infrastructure
About the Reader
Written for mid-level developers and DevOps engineers.
About the Author
Andreas Wittig and Michael Wittig are software engineers and
DevOps consultants focused on AWS. Together, they migrated the first
bank in Germany to AWS in 2013.
Table of Contents
- What is Amazon Web Services?
- A simple example: WordPress in five minutes
- Using virtual machines: EC2
- Programming your infrastructure: The command-line, SDKs, and
CloudFormation
- Automating deployment: CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, and
OpsWorks
- Securing your system: IAM, security groups, and VPC
- Automating operational tasks with Lambda
- Storing your objects: S3 and Glacier
- Storing data on hard drives: EBS and instance store
- Sharing data volumes between machines: EFS
- Using a relational database service: RDS
- Caching data in memory: Amazon ElastiCache
- Programming for the NoSQL database service: DynamoDB
- Achieving high availability: availability zones, auto-scaling, and
CloudWatch
- Decoupling your infrastructure: Elastic Load Balancing and Simple
Queue Service
- Designing for fault tolerance
- Scaling up and down: auto-scaling and CloudWatch
