Amazon Web Services in Action

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.

Thousands of developers have chosen Amazon Web Services in An in-depth guide to AWS to help them succeed with the AWS cloud. Readers love this all-practical 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. You’ll 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 Technology

Amazon Web Services, the leading cloud computing platform, offers customers APIs for on-demand 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 Book

In Amazon Web Services in Action, Third An in-depth 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. You’ll learn hands-on as you complete real-world projects like hosting a WordPress site, setting up a private cloud, and deploying an app on containers.

What’s Inside

About the Reader

Written for mid-level developers, DevOps or platform engineers, architects, and system administrators.

About the Author

Andreas 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 Contents

PART 1 - GETTING STARTED

1 What is Amazon Web Services?

2 A simple WordPress in 15 minutes

PART 2 - BUILDING VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE CONSISTING OF COMPUTERS AND NETWORKING

3 Using virtual EC2

4 Programming your The command line, SDKs, and CloudFormation

5 Securing your IAM, security groups, and VPC

6 Automating operational tasks with Lambda

PART 3 - STORING DATA IN THE CLOUD

7 Storing your S3

8 Storing data on hard EBS and instance store

9 Sharing data volumes between EFS

10 Using a relational database RDS

11 Caching data in Amazon ElastiCache and MemoryDB

12 Programming for the NoSQL database DynamoDB

PART 4 - ARCHITECTING ON AWS

13 Achieving high Availability zones, autoscaling, and CloudWatch

14 Decoupling your Elastic Load Balancing and Simple Queue

Service

15 Automating CodeDeploy, CloudFormation, and Packer

16 Designing for fault tolerance

17 Scaling up and Autoscaling and CloudWatch

18 Building modern architectures for the ECS, Fargate, and App Runner