AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide - Second Edition: Design, build, and manage your infrastructure on Amazon Web Services - Softcover

Yohan Wadia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788478797 ISBN 13: 9781788478793

Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account, 2018

Synopsis

Leverage this step-by-step guide to build a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable Cloud environment

Key Features

• Learn how to leverage various Amazon Web Services (AWS) components and services to build a secure, reliable, and robust environment to host your applications on.
• Delve into core AWS service offerings with hands-on tutorials, real-world use case scenarios, and best practices.
• A self-paced, systematic, and step-by-step guide to learning and implementing AWS in your own environment.

Book Description

Many businesses are moving from traditional data centers to AWS because of its reliability, vast service offerings, lower costs, and high rate of innovation. AWS can be used to accomplish a variety of both simple and tedious tasks. Whether you are a seasoned system admin or a rookie, this book will help you to learn all the skills you need to work with the AWS cloud.

This book guides you through some of the most popular AWS services, such as EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, EFS, CloudTrail, Redshift, EMR, Data Pipeline, and IoT using a simple, real-world, application-hosting example. This book will also enhance your application delivery skills with the latest AWS services, such as CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline, to provide continuous delivery and deployment, while also securing and monitoring your environment's workflow. Each chapter is designed to provide you with maximal information about each AWS service, coupled with easy to follow, hands-on steps, best practices, tips, and recommendations.

By the end of the book, you will be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications to run on.

What you will learn

• Take an in-depth look at what's new with AWS, along with how to effectively manage and automate your EC2 infrastructure with AWS Systems Manager
• Deploy and scale your applications with ease using AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Amazon Elastic File System
• Secure and govern your environments using AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config, and AWS Shield
• Learn the DevOps way using a combination of AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline
• Run big data analytics and workloads using Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift
• Learn to back up and safeguard your data using AWS Data Pipeline
• Get started with the Internet of Things using AWS IoT and AWS Greengrass

Who This Book Is For

This book is for those who want to learn and leverage the rich plethora of services provided by AWS. Although no prior experience with AWS is required, it is recommended that you have some hands-on experience of Linux, Web Services, and basic networking.

Table of Contents

1. What's New in AWS!
2. Managing EC2 with Systems manager
3. Introducing Elastic Beanstalk and Elastic File System
4. Securing workloads using AWS WAF
5. Governing Your Environments Using AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config
6. Access Control Using AWS IAM and AWS Organizations
7. Transforming Application development using the AWS Code Suite
8. Messaging in the Cloud using Amazon SNS and Amazon SQS
9. Powering Analytics Using Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift
10. Orchestrating Data using AWS Data Pipeline
11. Connecting the World with AWS IoT and AWS Greengrass

About this title

About the Author

Yohan Wadia is a client-focused evangelist and technologist with more than 8 years of experience in the cloud industry, focused on helping customers succeed with cloud adoption.As a technical consultant, he provides guidance and implementation services to customers looking to leverage cloud computing through either Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, or Google Cloud Platform by helping them come up with pragmatic solutions that make practical as well as business sense.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788478797
• ISBN 13: 9781788478793
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 358