cloudonaut Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 Michael and I have written a book about Amazon Web Services. Our goal was to provide you a deep introduction to AWS with a lot of examples. We have started writing our book in January 2015. And with a lot of support from Manning, our reviewers, and MEAP readers we have reached the goal to publish the book just in time for re:Invent. /images/2015/10/awsinaction-reinvent.jpg Available now The printed book Amazon Web Services in Action is available now. The eBook is available as PDF, ePub, and Kindle mobi. /images/2015/10/AWSinAction_Cover_Large.png Buy now and use the code ctwreinvent to get 41% off: Amazon Web Services in Action About the book Amazon Web Services in Action introduces you to computing, storing, and networking in the AWS cloud. You’ll start with an overview of cloud computing and then begin setting up your account. You’ll learn how to automate your infrastructure by programmatically calling the AWS API to control every part of AWS. Next, you’ll learn options and techniques for storing your data. You’ll also learn how to isolate your systems using private networks to increase security. Finally, this book teaches you how to design for high availability and fault tolerance. Table of contents Part 1: Getting started 1 - What is Amazon Web Services?2 - A simple example: WordPress in five minutes Part 2: Building virtual infrastructure consisting of servers and networking 3 - Using virtual servers: Amazon EC24 - Programming your infrastructure: the command-line interface, SDKs, and AWS CloudFormation5 - Automating deployment: CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, and OpsWorks6 - Securing your system: IAM, Security Groups, and VPC Part 3: Storing data in the cloud 7 - Storing your objects: Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier8 - Storing your data on hard drives: EBS and instance stores9 - Using a relational database service: RDS10 - Programming for the NoSQL database service: DynamoDB Part 4: Architecting on AWS 11 - Achieving high availability: availability zones, auto-scaling, and CloudWatch12 - Decoupling your infrastructure: ELB and SQS13 - Designing for fault-tolerance14 - Scaling up and down: auto-scaling and CloudWatch Free download Chapters 1 and 13 can be downloaded for free: Amazon Web Services in Action View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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