Learning Amazon Web Services (AWS): A Hands-On Guide to the Fundamentals of AWS Cloud

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• Balance cost, compliance, and latency in your service designs
• Choose the right networking options for your virtual private cloud (VPC)
• Build, host, launch, manage, and budget for EC2 compute services
• Plan for scale and resiliency, and make informed decisions about AWS storage
• Enforce strict security, and automate to improve operational efficiency

Description

Learning Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a clear, complete, practical, and hands-on introduction to the world’s leading cloud platform -- a perfect resource for everyone who needs to understand AWS, whatever their previous IT background.

Top cloud trainer and evangelist Mark Wilkins covers all you need to know to succeed with AWS, introducing each key concept in the context of a book-length case study. He teaches best practices that fully align with Amazon’s Well Architected Framework, the basis of all AWS certifications -- making this guide a valuable learning tool for those seeking to demonstrate their expertise by pursuing formal certification. Wilkins introduces new concepts based on how they are presented in the AWS self-service portal, making his coverage even easier to learn from and practice with.

Coverage includes:

• The big picture: What AWS is, how it has evolved, and how it can help you
• Foundation Core Services: compute, network, storage, and databases
• Implementing AWS Compute Services and EC2 instances (and understanding their pricing)
• Enforcing AWS security, compliance, and control
• Leveraging AWS Networking Services, including VPC, CIDR, DHCP, NAT, Internet gateways, endpoints, and VPNs
• Utilizing AWS cloud storage and databases
• Efficiently administering and managing AWS
  

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What is the Public Cloud and AWS?

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Table of Contents

Preface     xix
Chapter 1  Learning AWS     1
Chapter 2  Designing with AWS Global Services     29
Chapter 3  AWS Networking Services     77
Chapter 4  Compute Services: AWS EC2 Instances     147
Chapter 5  Planning for Scale and Resiliency     209
Chapter 6  Cloud Storage     255
Chapter 7  Security Services     315
Chapter 8  Automating AWS Infrastructure     373
Index     409

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