Amazon Web Services in Action, Second Edition

  • 7h 20m
  • Andreas Wittig, Michael Wittig
  • Manning Publications
  • 2019

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 need to know, emphasizing best practices for security, high availability and scalability.

Foreword by Ben Whaley, AWS community hero and author.

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

  • Completely revised bestseller
  • Secure and scale distributed applications
  • Deploy applications on AWS
  • Design for failure to achieve high availability
  • Automate your infrastructure

About the Reader

Written for mid-level developers and DevOps engineers.

About the Authors

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.

In this Book

  • Foreword
  • About This Book
  • 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
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