Designing AWS Environments

Design and create robust and resilient distributed solutions with AWS

Key Features

• Design and secure virtual private network environments on the AWS cloud
• Deploy appropriate instance types and sizes based on performance and cost requirements
• Gain proficiency and confidence when designing virtual cloud environments

Book Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides trusted,cloud-based solutions to help you meet your business needs. Running your solutions in the AWS Cloud can help you get your applications up and running faster while providing the security to meet your compliance requirements.

This book begins by familiarizing you with the key capabilities to architect and host applications, websites, and services on AWS. We explain the available options for AWS free tier with virtual instances and demonstrate how you can launch and connect them. Using practical examples, you'll be able to design and deploy networking and hosting solutions for large deployments. Finally, the book focuses on security and important elements of scalability and high availability using AWS VPC, Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto scaling. By the end of this book, you will have handson experience of working with AWS instances,VPC, Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto scalingrelated tasks on Amazon Web Services.

What you will learn

• Establish how to launch EC2 instances and log in
• Work with Linux and Windows instances
• Understand Amazon VPC networking creation with and without a wizard
• Design, create, and secure a Virtual Private Cloud
• Autoscale instances based on the increase and decrease in traffic
• Deploy applications in a highly available and fault-tolerant manner
• Load balance the requests with Elastic Load Balancing
• Make your applications highly available through load balancing, multi-AZ deployments, and auto scaling

Who this book is for

This book is for new and aspiring individuals who are preparing or gearing up for a solutions architect role. You'll also find this useful if you're an IT professional such as beginners, cloud architects, and cloud solution providers, or DevOps engineer who is preparing to design and deploy large solutions on AWS. No experience with AWS is required.

Table of Contents

1. Installation and Setup
2. LAUNCHING AN EC2 INSTANCE
3. LOGGING IN TO EC2 INSTANCES
4. NETWORKING ON AWS
5. CREATING A VPC

Mitesh Soni is an avid learner with 10 years' experience in the IT industry. He is an SCJP, SCWCD, and VCP. He is IBM Urbancode- and IBM Bluemix-certified, and is also a Certified Jenkins Engineer. He loves DevOps and cloud computing, and he also has an interest in programming in Java. He finds design patterns fascinating and believes that a picture is worth a thousand words. He occasionally contributes to clean-clouds and eTutorials World websites. He loves to play with his kids, fiddle with his camera, and take photographs at Indroda Park.

Wayde Gilchrist started moving customers of his IT consulting business into the cloud and away from traditional hosting environments back in 2010. In addition to consulting, he delivers AWS training for Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and international consulting firms. When he is not out visiting customers, he is delivering training virtually from his home in Florida.