Learning Amazon Web Services · A Hands-On Guide to the Fundamentals of AWS Cloud by Wilkins, Mark -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover About This E-Book Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Accessing the Web Edition Contents at a Glance Table of Contents Companion Videos List Preface About the Author Acknowledgments 1. Learning AWS

About This Book Trying to Define the Cloud Moving to AWS Essential Characteristics of AWS Cloud Computing Operational Benefits of AWS Cloud Provider Limitations Data Security at AWS Network Security at AWS Application Security at AWS Compliance in the AWS Cloud Migrating Applications The Well-Architected Framework The Well-Architected Tool In Conclusion

2. Designing with AWS Global Services

Considering Location AWS Regions Availability Zones Multiple Availability Zones What’s the AWS Service-Level Agreement? Global Edge Services Choosing a Region AWS and Compliance Latency Concerns Services Offered at Each Region Calculating Costs Management Service Costs AWS Compute Costs Storage Costs Data Transfer Costs Optimizing Costs at AWS Tools for Analyzing Costs at AWS AWS Simple Monthly Calculator In Conclusion Top 10 Big-Picture Discussion Points: Compliance, Governance, Latency, and Failover Considerations

3. AWS Networking Services

VPC Networking What’s Behind the Networking Curtain? Creating Your First VPC How Many VPCs? Creating the VPC CIDR Block The Default VPC Revisiting Availability Zones Creating Subnets Working with Route Tables Private IPV4 Addresses Elastic IP Addresses Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) IPv6 Addresses Security Groups Network ACLs Understanding Ephemeral Ports Peering VPCs Gateway VPC Endpoints VPC Connectivity VPN Connections VPN Connections Understanding Route Propagation Direct Connect Route 53 Using DNS with a VPC: Private DNS Zones In Conclusion Top 10 Discussion Points: Networking Considerations for Security, Failover, and Connectivity

4. Compute Services: AWS EC2 Instances

A Short History of EC2 Virtualization The Nitro System EC2 Instances Instance Families What’s a vCPU? EC2 Instance Choices Instances Designed to Burst EC2 Network Performance Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) Choosing an AMI Creating a Custom AMI Custom Instance Store AMIs Proper AMI Design EC2 Pricing Reserved Instances (RI) Spot Fleet EC2 Fleet EC2 Instance Storage Options EC2 Auto Recovery Ordering an Instance Migrating to AWS Other Ways to Host Workloads at AWS In Conclusion Top 10 Big-Picture Discussion Points: Migration and Planning Considerations

5. Planning for Scale and Resiliency

The Concept of Monitoring What Is CloudWatch? Planning for Monitoring CloudWatch Integration CloudWatch Terminology Using the Dashboard Monitoring EC2 Instances Elastic Load Balancing Services Additional ELB Features Application Load Balancer (ALB) Configuring Health Checks Network Load Balancer Scaling Applications Launch Templates Scaling Options for Auto Scaling Groups AWS Auto Scaling In Conclusion Top 10 Big-Picture Discussion Points: Scale, Availability, and Monitoring Decisions

6. Cloud Storage

Cloud Storage EBS Block Storage EBS Snapshots S3 Storage S3 Management S3 Bucket Security Amazon S3 Glacier Archive Storage Shared File Systems at AWS Elastic File System (EFS) Storage Performance Compared Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Relational Database Service (RDS) Big-Picture RDS Installation Steps Aurora DynamoDB DynamoDB Tables ElastiCache AWS Data Transfer Options The Snow Family AWS Storage Gateway Family In Conclusion Top 10 Big-Picture Discussion Points: Storage Options and Considerations

7. Security Services

Identity and Access Management IAM Users Creating an IAM User Using Multifactor Authentication (MFA) IAM Policy Types IAM Policy Creation Reading a Simple JSON Policy Policy Actions Reviewing the Policy Permissions Applied Using Tags with IAM Identities IAM Roles Cross-Account Access to AWS Resources The AWS Security Token Service (STS) Identity Federation IAM Best Practices IAM Security Tools Creating a CloudWatch Trail Event Other AWS Security Services In Conclusion Top 10 Big-Picture Security Discussion Points

8. Automating AWS Infrastructure

Automating with AWS From Manual to Automated Infrastructure with CloudFormation CloudFormation Components Creating an EC2 Instance with ElP Updating with Change Sets AWS Service Catalog The 12-Factor Methodology Elastic Beanstalk CodePipeline Serviceless Computing with Lambda API Gateway Building a Serverless Web App In Conclusion Top 10 Big-Picture Discussion Points: Moving Toward Stateless Design

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