Amazon Web Services in Action, Third Edition - MEAP Version 3

Amazon Web Services in Action, Third Edition MEAP V03 Copyright Welcome Brief contents Chapter 1: What is Amazon Web Services? 1.1 What is Amazon Web Services (AWS)? 1.2 What can you do with AWS? 1.2.1 Hosting a web shop 1.2.2 Running a Java EE application in your private network 1.2.3 Implementing a highly available system 1.2.4 Profiting from low costs for batch processing infrastructure 1.3 How you can benefit from using AWS 1.3.1 Innovative and fast-growing platform 1.3.2 Services solve common problems 1.3.3 Enabling automation 1.3.4 Flexible capacity (scalability) 1.3.5 Built for failure (reliability) 1.3.6 Reducing time to market 1.3.7 Benefiting from economies of scale 1.3.8 Global infrastructure 1.3.9 Professional partner 1.4 How much does it cost? 1.4.1 Free Tier 1.4.2 Billing example 1.4.3 Pay-per-use opportunities 1.5 Comparing alternatives 1.6 Exploring AWS services 1.7 Interacting with AWS 1.7.1 Management Console 1.7.2 Command-line interface 1.7.3 SDKs 1.7.4 Blueprints 1.8 Creating an AWS account 1.8.1 Signing up 1.8.2 Signing In 1.9 Create a budget alert to keep track of your AWS bill 1.10 Summary Chapter 2: A simple example: WordPress in fifteen minutes 2.1 Creating your infrastructure 2.2 Exploring your infrastructure 2.2.1 Virtual machines 2.2.2 Load balancer 2.2.3 MySQL database 2.2.4 Network filesystem 2.3 How much does it cost? 2.4 Deleting your infrastructure 2.5 Summary Chapter 14: Achieving high availability: Availability zones, auto-scaling, and CloudWatch 14.1 Recovering from EC2 instance failure with CloudWatch 14.1.1 How does a CloudWatch alarm recover an EC2 instance? 14.2 Recovering from a data center outage with Auto Scaling Group 14.2.1 Availability zones: groups of isolated data centers 14.2.2 Recovering a failed virtual machine to another availability zone with the help of auto-scaling 14.2.3 Pitfall: recovering network-attached storage 14.2.4 Pitfall: network interface recovery 14.2.5 Insights into availability zones 14.3 Architecting for high availability 14.3.1 RTO and RPO comparison for a single EC2 instance 14.3.2 AWS services come with different high availability guarantees 14.4 Summary Chapter 15: Decoupling your infrastructure: Elastic load balancing and simple queue service 15.1 Synchronous decoupling with load balancers 15.1.1 Setting up a load balancer with virtual machines 15.2 Asynchronous decoupling with message queues 15.2.1 Turning a synchronous process into an asynchronous one 15.2.2 Architecture of the URL2PNG application 15.2.3 Setting up a message queue 15.2.4 Producing messages programmatically 15.2.5 Consuming messages programmatically 15.2.6 Limitations of messaging with SQS 15.3 Summary Chapter 16: Designing for fault tolerance 16.1 Using redundant EC2 instances to increase availability 16.1.1 Redundancy can remove a single point of failure 16.1.2 Redundancy requires decoupling 16.2 Considerations for making your code fault-tolerant 16.2.1 Let it crash, but also retry 16.2.2 Idempotent retry makes fault tolerance possible 16.3 Building a fault-tolerant web application: Imagery 16.3.1 The idempotent state machine 16.3.2 Implementing a fault-tolerant web service 16.3.3 Implementing a fault-tolerant worker to consume SQS messages 16.3.4 Deploying the application 16.4 Summary Chapter 17: Scaling up and down: auto-scaling and CloudWatch 17.1 Managing a dynamic EC2 instance pool 17.2 Using metrics or schedules to trigger scaling 17.2.1 Scaling based on a schedule 17.2.2 Scaling based on CloudWatch metrics 17.3 Decouple your dynamic EC2 instance pool 17.3.1 Scaling a dynamic EC2 instance pool synchronously decoupled by a load balancer 17.3.2 Scaling a dynamic EC2 instances pool asynchronously decoupled by a queue 17.4 Summary Chapter 18: Building modern architectures for the cloud: ECS and Fargate 18.1 Why should you consider containers instead of virtual machines? 18.2 Comparing different options to run containers on AWS 18.3 The ECS basics: cluster, service, task, and task definition 18.4 AWS Fargate: running containers without managing a cluster of virtual machines 18.5 Walking through a cloud-native architecture: ECS, Fargate, and S3 18.6 Summary Notes 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. 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 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. Youll 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. Whats 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 Amazon Web Services in Action: An in-depth guide to AWS is the ideal guide for mid-level developers, DevOps or platform engineers, architects, and system administrators. Rich in examples and best practices, this Manning bestseller is the all-practical, complete handbook to computing, storage, and networking, for all core AWS services.