▶Book Description
Amazon Web Services (AWS) dominates the public cloud market by a huge margin and it continues to be the first choice for many organizations. Networking has been an area of focus for all the leading cloud service providers. AWS has a suite of network-related products that help to perform network-related task in AWS.
This book initially covers the basics of networking in AWS. Then we use AWS VPC to create an isolated virtual cloud for performing network-related tasks. We then provide an overview of AWS Direct Connect after taking a deep dive into scalability and load balancing using Auto scaling feature, Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon Route S3.
Toward the end of the book, we cover some troubleshooting tips and security best practices for your network. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience of working with network tasks on AWS.
▶What You Will Learn
⦁ Overview of all networking services available in AWS.
⦁ Gain Work with load balance application across different regions.
⦁ Learn auto scale instance based on the increase and decrease of the traffic.
⦁ Deploy application in highly available and fault tolerant manner.
⦁ Configure Route 53 for a web application.
⦁ Troubleshooting tips and best practices at the end
▶Key Features
⦁ Master your networking skills on Public Cloud.
⦁ Gain hands-on experience of using Amazon VPC, Elastic Load Balancing, Direct Connect and other AWS products.
⦁ Implement troubleshooting skills and best practices for security on AWS network.
▶Who This Book Is For
Practical AWS Networking is only for beginners. This book targets developers and system administrators who are involved in AWS management. Technical leads and cloud engineers are the target readers to jump-start AWS networking. The reasons to jump-start AWS networking are to understand the important networking services available in AWS and how to utilize them effectively for applications so that applications, are secure, highly available, and fault tolerant.
▶What this book covers
⦁ Chapter 1, Basics of Networking on AWS, provides an overview AWS and its networking services to getting started quickly gives, and you an idea about key services and concepts.
⦁ Chapter 2, Amazon VPC, explains Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) and all its components. We will see how to provision a logically isolated section of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, where we can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that we define.
⦁ Chapter 3, Elastic Load Balancing, teaches you how Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances in the cloud to achieve higher levels of fault tolerance in the application.
⦁ Chapter 4, Auto Scaling, focuses on how to configure instances in the VPC for Auto Scaling,considering what and how configuration to make an application highly available.
⦁ Chapter 5, Amazon Route 53, discusses using Amazon Route 53 for domain names, routing traffic to the resources for the domain, and monitoring the health of resources.
⦁ Chapter 6, AWS Direct Connect, outlines AWS Direct Connect which makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS.
⦁ Chapter 7, Security Best Practices, explores various ways to secure resources in AWS using different options available, such as by using IAM, security groups, and other methods.
⦁ Chapter 8, Troubleshooting Tips, looks at the day-to-day issues we encounter while creating and managing AWS resources.
