AWS Administration–The Definitive Guide Second Edition

<AWS Administration–The Definitive Guide Second Edition> ▶Book Description
Many businesses are moving from traditional data centers to AWS because of its reliability, vast service offerings, lower costs, and high rate of innovation. AWS can be used to accomplish a variety of both simple and tedious tasks. Whether you are a seasoned system admin or a rookie, this book will help you to learn all the skills you need to work with the AWS cloud.

This book guides you through some of the most popular AWS services, such as EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, EFS, CloudTrail, Redshift, EMR, Data Pipeline, and IoT using a simple, real-world, application-hosting example. This book will also enhance your application delivery skills with the latest AWS services, such as CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline, to provide continuous delivery and deployment, while also securing and monitoring your environment's workflow. Each chapter is designed to provide you with maximal information about each AWS service, coupled with easy to follow, hands-on steps, best practices, tips, and recommendations.

By the end of the book, you will be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications to run on.

▶What You Will Learn
- Take an in-depth look at what's new with AWS, along with how to effectively manage and automate your EC2 infrastructure with AWS Systems Manager
- Deploy and scale your applications with ease using AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Amazon Elastic File System
- Secure and govern your environments using AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config, and AWS Shield
- Learn the DevOps way using a combination of AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline
- Run big data analytics and workloads using Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift
- Learn to back up and safeguard your data using AWS Data Pipeline
- Get started with the Internet of Things using AWS IoT and AWS Greengrass

▶Key Features
- Learn how to leverage various Amazon Web Services (AWS) components and services to build a secure, reliable, and robust environment to host your applications on.
- Delve into core AWS service offerings with hands-on tutorials, real-world use case scenarios, and best practices.
- A self-paced, systematic, and step-by-step guide to learning and implementing AWS in your own environment.

▶Who This Book Is For
This book is for those who want to learn and leverage the rich plethora of services provided by AWS. Although no prior experience with AWS is required, it is recommended that you have some hands-on experience of Linux, Web Services, and basic networking.

▶What this book covers
- Chapter 1, What's New in AWS?, contains a brief introduction to some of the key enhancements and announcements made to the existing line of AWS services and products.
- Chapter 2, Managing EC2 with Systems Manager, provides a brief introduction to using EC2 Systems Manager to manage your fleet of EC2 instances. It also covers an in-depth look at how to work with SSM agents, Run Command, as well as other systems manager features, such as automation, patching, and inventory management.
- Chapter 3, Introducing Elastic Beanstalk and Elastic File System, explains how to leverage both Elastic Beanstalk and the Elastic File Systems services to build and scale out web applications and deploy them with absolute ease.
- Chapter 4, Securing Workloads Using AWS WAF, discusses some of the key aspects that you can leverage to provide added security for your web applications using AWS WAF and AWS Shield. The chapter also provides some keen insights into how you can protect your web applications against commonly occurring attacks such as cross-site scripting and SQL injections.
- Chapter 5, Governing Your Environments Using AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config, introduces you to the concept and benefits provided by leveraging AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config. The chapter covers in-depth scenarios using which you can standardize governance and security for your AWS environments.
- Chapter 6, Access Control Using AWS IAM and AWS Organizations, takes a look at some of the latest enhancements made to the AWS IAM service. It also walks you through how you can manage your AWS accounts with better efficiency and control using AWS organizations as a Service.
- Chapter 7, Transforming Application Development Using the AWS Code Suite, covers an indepth look at how you can leverage CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline to design and build complete CICD pipelines for your applications.
- Chapter 8, Messaging in the Cloud Using Amazon SNS and Amazon SQS, provides an in-depth look at how you can effectively develop modern cloud-ready, decoupled applications, and perform general housekeeping of your AWS accounts.
- Chapter 9, Powering Analytics Using Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift, provides practical knowledge and hands-on approach to process and a run large-scale analytics and data warehousing in the AWS Cloud.
- Chapter 10, Orchestrating Data Using AWS Data Pipeline, covers how you can effectively orchestrate the movement of data from one AWS service to another using simple, reusable pipeline definitions.
- Chapter 11, Connecting the World with AWS IoT and AWS Greengrass, provides a quick introduction to the AWS IoT Suite of services, along with hands-on guides on how you can connect, test, and monitor IoT devices with utmost ease.