Amazon Web Services in Action

Price: $22.00
(as of May 20,2023 19:47:03 UTC – Details)

Amazon Web Services in Action introduces you to the world of computing, storing, and networking in the AWS cloud. The book provides an understanding of the most important services that AWS has to offer and shares best practices regarding security, high availability, and scalability.

In the beginning, a broad overview of cloud computing and AWS is presented, followed by instructions on how to spin-up servers manually and from the command line. The book also teaches how to automate infrastructure by programmatically calling the AWS API to control every aspect of AWS. Readers will be introduced to the infrastructure as code concept with the help of AWS CloudFormation and how to deploy applications on AWS.

Furthermore, this book teaches readers how to secure their infrastructure by isolating networks, controlling traffic, and managing access to AWS resources. Diverse techniques of storing data on AWS such as SQL, NoSQL, object storage, and block storage, are also analyzed.

The authors of this book also highlight how to integrate AWS services into one’s own applications by making use of SDKs and how to design for high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability. Whether someone is running an e-commerce site, analyzing real-time data, or building software as a service, AWS provides a reliable cloud-based platform with services that can be controlled via an API that allows for infrastructure automation.

The book covers:

• Overview of cloud concepts and patterns
• Management of servers on EC2 for cost-effectiveness
• Infrastructure automation with infrastructure as code (AWS CloudFormation)
• Deployment of applications on AWS
• Data storage on AWS: SQL, NoSQL, object storage, and block storage
• Integration of Amazon’s pre-built services
• Designing highly available and fault-tolerant systems

This book is aimed at developers and DevOps engineers moving distributed applications to the AWS platform. Andreas Wittig and Michael Wittig are software engineers and consultants specializing in AWS and web development.

IMPORTANT NOTE: When users purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in their Audible Library along with the audiobook.