AWS SysOps Cookbook
Practical recipes to build, automate, and manage your AWS-based cloud environments
2nd Edition
Published on 27. September 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
490 pages
978-1-83855-018-9 (ISBN)
Description
Become an AWS SysOps administrator and explore best practices to maintain a well-architected, resilient, and secure AWS environment
Key Features
Explore AWS Cloud functionalities through a recipe-based approach
Get to grips with a variety of techniques for automating your infrastructure
Discover industry-proven best practices for architecting reliable and efficient workloads
Book DescriptionAWS is an on-demand remote computing service providing cloud infrastructure over the internet with storage, bandwidth, and customized support for APIs. This updated second edition will help you implement these services and efficiently administer your AWS environment.
You will start with the AWS fundamentals and then understand how to manage multiple accounts before setting up consolidated billing. The book will assist you in setting up reliable and fast hosting for static websites, sharing data between running instances and backing up data for compliance. By understanding how to use compute service, you will also discover how to achieve quick and consistent instance provisioning. You'll then learn to provision storage volumes and autoscale an app server. Next, you'll explore serverless development with AWS Lambda, and gain insights into using networking and database services such as Amazon Neptune. The later chapters will focus on management tools like AWS CloudFormation, and how to secure your cloud resources and estimate costs for your infrastructure. Finally, you'll use the AWS well-architected framework to conduct a technology baseline review self-assessment and identify critical areas for improvement in the management and operation of your cloud-based workloads.
By the end of this book, you'll have the skills to effectively administer your AWS environment.What you will learn
Secure your account by creating IAM users and avoiding the use of the root login
Simplify the creation of a multi-account landing zone using AWS Control Tower
Master Amazon S3 for unlimited, cost-efficient storage of data
Explore a variety of compute resources on the AWS Cloud, such as EC2 and AWS Lambda
Configure secure networks using Amazon VPC, access control lists, and security groups
Estimate your monthly bill by using cost estimation tools
Learn to host a website with Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudFront, and S3
Who this book is forIf you are an administrator, DevOps engineer, or an IT professional interested in exploring administrative tasks on the AWS Cloud, then this book is for you. Familiarity with cloud computing platforms and some understanding of virtualization, networking, and other administration-related tasks is assumed.
Key Features
Explore AWS Cloud functionalities through a recipe-based approach
Get to grips with a variety of techniques for automating your infrastructure
Discover industry-proven best practices for architecting reliable and efficient workloads
Book DescriptionAWS is an on-demand remote computing service providing cloud infrastructure over the internet with storage, bandwidth, and customized support for APIs. This updated second edition will help you implement these services and efficiently administer your AWS environment.
You will start with the AWS fundamentals and then understand how to manage multiple accounts before setting up consolidated billing. The book will assist you in setting up reliable and fast hosting for static websites, sharing data between running instances and backing up data for compliance. By understanding how to use compute service, you will also discover how to achieve quick and consistent instance provisioning. You'll then learn to provision storage volumes and autoscale an app server. Next, you'll explore serverless development with AWS Lambda, and gain insights into using networking and database services such as Amazon Neptune. The later chapters will focus on management tools like AWS CloudFormation, and how to secure your cloud resources and estimate costs for your infrastructure. Finally, you'll use the AWS well-architected framework to conduct a technology baseline review self-assessment and identify critical areas for improvement in the management and operation of your cloud-based workloads.
By the end of this book, you'll have the skills to effectively administer your AWS environment.What you will learn
Secure your account by creating IAM users and avoiding the use of the root login
Simplify the creation of a multi-account landing zone using AWS Control Tower
Master Amazon S3 for unlimited, cost-efficient storage of data
Explore a variety of compute resources on the AWS Cloud, such as EC2 and AWS Lambda
Configure secure networks using Amazon VPC, access control lists, and security groups
Estimate your monthly bill by using cost estimation tools
Learn to host a website with Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudFront, and S3
Who this book is forIf you are an administrator, DevOps engineer, or an IT professional interested in exploring administrative tasks on the AWS Cloud, then this book is for you. Familiarity with cloud computing platforms and some understanding of virtualization, networking, and other administration-related tasks is assumed.
More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
906 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83855-018-9 (9781838550189)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Eric Z. Beard Beard | Rowan Udell | Lucas Chan
AWS SysOps Cookbook
Practical recipes to build, automate, and manage your AWS-based cloud environments
E-Book
09/2019
2nd Edition
Packt Publishing
€29.99
Available for download
Person
Eric Z. Beard, a former United States Marine, has nearly two decades of experience in technology, leading diverse DevOps and solutions architecture teams. Eric is currently a manager at Amazon Web Services in Seattle, Washington, and holds nine AWS certifications. Rowan Udell has been working in development and operations for 15 years. His travels have seen him work in start-ups and enterprises in the finance, education, and web industries in both Australia and Canada. He currently works as a Technical Director at Versent, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, working with teams building cloud-native products on AWS. He specializes in serverless applications and architectures on AWS, and contributes actively in the AWS and serverless communities. Lucas Chan has been working in tech since 1995 in a variety of development, systems admin, and DevOps roles. He is currently a senior consultant and engineer at Versent and was a technical director at Stax. He's been running production workloads on AWS for over 10 years. He's also a member of the APAC AWS warriors program and holds all five of the available AWS certifications.
Content
Table of Contents
AWS Fundamentals
Account Setup and Management
AWS Storage and Content Delivery
AWS Compute
Monitoring the Infrastructure
Managing AWS Databases
AWS Networking Essentials
AWS Account Security and Identity
Managing Costs
Advanced AWS CloudFormation
AWS Well-Architected Framework
Working with Business Applications
Appendix: AWS Partner Solutions
AWS Fundamentals
Account Setup and Management
AWS Storage and Content Delivery
AWS Compute
Monitoring the Infrastructure
Managing AWS Databases
AWS Networking Essentials
AWS Account Security and Identity
Managing Costs
Advanced AWS CloudFormation
AWS Well-Architected Framework
Working with Business Applications
Appendix: AWS Partner Solutions