Learn Amazon Web Services in a Month of Lunches
ISBN: 9789386052209
330 pages
Description
AWS certainly isn’t the only cloud provider on earth, and there’s no single service it offers that can’t be replicated elsewhere at a comparable or sometimes lower price. But although Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform offer some serious products, AWS is by all measures the biggest player in this market. You’ve probably already heard this old joke: no one ever got fired for choosing IBM. The idea was that IBM’s size and history made choosing its products and services the safe choice. These days? AWS is probably getting close to IBM status.
1. Before you begin
Part 1: The Core AWS Tools
2. The 10-minute EC2 web server
3. Provisioning a more robust EC2 website
4. Databases on AWS
5. DNS: what’s in a name?
6. S3: cheap, fast file storage
7. S3: cheap, fast system backups
8. AWS security: working with IAM users, groups, and roles
9. Managing growth
10. Pushing back against the chaos: using resource tags
11. Cloud Watch: monitoring AWS resources for fun and profit
12. Another way to play: the command-line interface
Part 2: The AWS Power User: Optimizing Your Infrastructure
13. Keeping ahead of user demand
14. High availability: working with AWS networking tools
15. High availability: load balancing
16. High availability: auto scaling
17. High availability: content-delivery networks
Part 3: Food For Thought: What Else Can Aws Do For You?
18. Building hybrid infrastructure
19. Cloud automation: working with Elastic Beanstalk, Docker and Lambda
20. Everything else (nearly)
21. Never the end