Amazon Web Services in Action: An indepth guide to AWS: Adapted by Joseph Cowley

Master essential best practices for deploying and managing applications on Amazon Web Services. This revised bestseller is packed with techniques for building highly available and scalable architectures and automating deployment with Infrastructure as Code.Leverage globally distributed data centers to launch virtual machines with EC2 Store and archive large volumes of data with EBS, S3, and EFS Persist and query data with highly available and scalable database systems with RDS and DynamoDB Enhance performance with caching data inmemory with ElastiCache and MemoryDB Use Infrastructure as Code to automate your cloud infrastructure Secure workloads running in the cloud with VPC and IAM Build faulttolerant web applications with ALB and SQS Automate common sysadmin tasks with Lambda, CLI, and SDK Build cloudnative applications based on containers with AppRunner, ECS, FargateThousands of developers have chosen Amazon Web Services in Action: An indepth guide to AWS to help them succeed with the AWS cloud. Readers love this allpractical handbook for its complete introduction to computing, storage, and networking, along with best practices for all core AWS services. This revised third edition features new chapters on containerization, along with a variety of AWS innovations. Youll also learn how automating your infrastructure with IAC is a game changer for your cloud deployment, delivering a massive boost to efficiency and quality.Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.About the TechnologyAmazon Web Services, the leading cloud computing platform, offers customers APIs for ondemand access to computing services. Rich in examples and best practices of how to use AWS, this Manning bestseller is now released in its third, revised, and improved edition.About the BookIn Amazon Web Services in Action, Third Edition: An indepth guide to AWS, the Wittig brothers give you a comprehensive, practical introduction to deploying and managing applications on the AWS cloud platform. With a sharp focus on the most important AWS tasks and services, they will save you hours of unproductive time. Youll learn handson as you complete realworld projects like hosting a WordPress site, setting up a private cloud, and deploying an app on containers.Whats InsideLeverage globally distributed data centers to launch virtual machines Enhance performance with caching data inmemory Secure workloads running in the cloud with VPC and IAM Build faulttolerant web applications with ALB and SQSAbout the ReaderWritten for midlevel developers, DevOps or platform engineers, architects, and system administrators.About the AuthorAndreas Wittig and Michael Wittig are software engineers and consultants focused on AWS. Together, they migrated the first bank in Germany to AWS in 2013.Table of ContentsPART 1 GETTING STARTED1 What is Amazon Web Services?2 A simple example: WordPress in 15 minutesPART 2 BUILDING VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE CONSISTING OF COMPUTERS AND NETWORKING3 Using virtual machines: EC24 Programming your infrastructure: The command line, SDKs, and CloudFormation5 Securing your system: IAM, security groups, and VPC6 Automating operational tasks with LambdaPART 3 STORING DATA IN THE CLOUD7 Storing your objects: S38 Storing data on hard drives: EBS and instance store9 Sharing data volumes between machines: EFS10 Using a relational database service: RDS11 Caching data in memory: Amazon ElastiCache and MemoryDB12 Programming for the NoSQL database service: DynamoDBPART 4 ARCHITECTING ON AWS13 Achieving high availability: Availability zones, autoscaling, and CloudWatch14 Decoupling your infrastructure: Elastic Load Balancing and Simple QueueService15 Automating deployment: CodeDeploy, CloudFormation, and Packer16 Designing for fault tolerance17 Scaling up and down: Autoscaling and CloudWatch18 Building modern architectures for the cloud: ECS, Fargate, and App Runner