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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
First steps with AWS – no experience requiredDeploy web apps using EC2, RDS, S3, and Route 53Cheap and fast system backupsSetting 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 beginPART 1 – THE CORE AWS TOOLSThe 10-minute EC2 web serverProvisioning a more robust EC2 websiteDatabases on AWSDNS: what’s in a name?S3: cheap, fast file storageS3: cheap, fast system backupsAWS security: working with IAM users, groups, and rolesManaging growthPushing back against the chaos: using resource tagsCloudWatch: monitoring AWS resources for fun and profitAnother way to play: the command-line interfacePART 2 – THE AWS POWER USER: OPTIMIZING YOUR INFRASTRUCTUREKeeping ahead of user demandHigh availability: working with AWS networking toolsHigh availability: load balancingHigh availability: auto scalingHigh availability: content-delivery networksPART 3 – FOOD FOR THOUGHT: WHAT ELSE CAN AWS DO FOR YOU?Building hybrid infrastructureCloud automation: working with Elastic Beanstalk, Docker, and LambdaEverything else (nearly)Never the end
From the Publisher
About This Book
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.
Of course, that’s only a joke. Sometimes, safe choices can lead to disaster. And there’s still plenty of risk to be found in AWS: Finding yourself so heavily invested in uniquely AWS technologies that you’re effectively unable to move your resources elsewhere is one significant example. But AWS’s reputation for innovation and product reliability is well earned. When it comes to talking about the cloud, AWS is the elephant in every room.
Learn Amazon Web Services in a Month of Lunches is designed to give you the insights and skills you’ll need to quickly move from being a raw beginner to someone who’s able to safely and effectively launch and manage a wide range of AWS resources. The book encourages you to get your hands dirty with real infrastructure projects pretty much right away. The skills you’ll use in the early chapters will serve as a foundation for everything that comes after.
The book’s chapters more or less follow a small company’s intrepid efforts to create a public-facing web application. You’ll watch them as, one step at a time, they add security, resilience, high availability, and elasticity. The topics mostly follow a realistic upward curve of technical sophistication.
As you’ll soon see, I don’t try to cover all the 100+ services that are currently part of the AWS platform. Any book that tried to do so would be so big, it would probably break your e-book reader. Rather, I’ve limited the book’s primary focus to the dozen or so services that form the core of most of the action on AWS. If you understand how those 12 work, most of the rest will eventually make sense to you.
Finally, AWS—like cloud computing as a whole—is a moving target. In addition to new services and features constantly being introduced, visual elements of the browser interface change from time to time. Practically, this means by the time you read this book, some of the images and specific instructions may be outdated. Unfortunately, that’s how life is in the fast lane. But keep in mind that this book is primarily about the principles and processes of AWS deployments rather than exactly where on a page you’re supposed to click. When you’re finished reading the book, I expect you’ll have drawn the greatest value from those principles and processes.
Who should read this book?
This book isn’t about creating an application, a website, or a project. That’s your job. So at the very least, I expect that you have some idea of what you’d like to accomplish: perhaps migrating an existing multitiered local infrastructure or building an e-commerce WordPress website. With that in mind, you probably already have some experience with the way basic application-support tools like databases, networking, and filesystems work.
My first job is to help you deploy the project in the AWS cloud. My other job is to skillfully take the ideas behind the principles, processes, and functionality of the AWS cloud and park them neatly in your mind so that your imagination and creativity can take over.
Publisher : Manning; First Edition (September 3, 2017)
Language : English
Paperback : 328 pages
ISBN-10 : 1617294446
ISBN-13 : 978-1617294440
Item Weight : 1.25 pounds
Dimensions : 7.38 x 0.7 x 9.25 inches