Summary
Learn Amazon Web Services in a Month of Lunches guides you through the
process of building a robust and secure web application using the core
AWS services you really need to know. You'll be amazed by how much you
can accomplish with AWS!
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and
ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the Technology
Cloud computing has transformed the way we build and deliver software.
With the Amazon Web Services cloud platform, you can trade expensive
glass room hardware and custom infrastructure for virtual servers and
easy-to-configure storage, security, and networking services. Better,
because you don't own the hardware, you only pay for the computing power
you need! Just learn a few key ideas and techniques and you can have
applications up and running in AWS in minutes.
About the Book
Learn Amazon Web Services in a Month of Lunches gets you started with
AWS fast. In just 21 bite-size lessons, you'll learn the concepts and
practical techniques you need to deploy and manage applications. You'll
learn by doing real-world labs that guide you from the core AWS tool set
through setting up security and storage and planning for growth. You'll
even deploy a public-facing application that's highly available,
scalable, and load balanced.
What's Inside
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First steps with AWS - no experience required
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Deploy web apps using EC2, RDS, S3, and Route 53
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Cheap and fast system backups
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Setting up cloud automation
About the Reader
If you know your way around Windows or Linux and have a basic idea of
how web applications work, you're ready to start using AWS.
About the Author
David Clinton is a system administrator, teacher, and writer. He has
administered, written about, and created training materials for many
important technology subjects including Linux systems, cloud computing
(AWS in particular), and container technologies like Docker. Many of his
video training courses can be found on Pluralsight.com, and links to his
other books (on Linux administration and server virtualization) can be
found at https: //bootstrap-it.com.
Table of Contents
- Before you begin
- The 10-minute EC2 web server
- Provisioning a more robust EC2 website
- Databases on AWS
- DNS: whatâ (TM)s in a name?
- S3: cheap, fast file storage
- S3: cheap, fast system backups
- AWS security: working with IAM users, groups, and roles
- Managing growth
- Pushing back against the chaos: using resource tags
- CloudWatch: monitoring AWS resources for fun and profit
- Another way to play: the command-line interface
- Keeping ahead of user demand
- High availability: working with AWS networking tools
- High availability: load balancing
- High availability: auto scaling
- High availability: content-delivery networks
- Building hybrid infrastructure
- Cloud automation: working with Elastic Beanstalk, Docker, and Lambda
- Everything else (nearly)
- Never the end
