AWS Administration – The Definitive Guide电子书

AWS Administration – The Definitive Guide

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AWS Administration – The Definitive Guide

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Introducing Amazon Web Services

What is cloud computing?

Cloud computing features and benefits

Cloud computing use cases

Introducing Amazon Web Services

AWS architecture and components

Regions and availability zones

AWS platform overview

Compute

Storage

Databases

Networking

Distributed computing and analytics

Content distribution and delivery

Workflow and messaging

Monitoring

Identity and access management

Getting started with AWS

Introducing the AWS Management Console

Getting started with AWS CLI

Plan of attack!

Summary

2. Security and Access Management

Security and clouds

Is AWS really secure

Shared responsibility model

Identity and Access Management

Business use case scenario

Getting started with the IAM Console

Creating users and groups

Understanding permissions and policies

Creating and assigning policies

Managing access and security using the AWS CLI

Planning your next steps

Recommendations and best practices

Summary

3. Images and Instances

Introducing EC2!

EC2 use cases

Introducing images and instances

Understanding images

Amazon Linux AMI

Understanding instances

EC2 instance pricing options

On-demand instances

Reserved instances

Spot instances

Working with instances

Stage 1 – choose AMI

Stage 2 – choose an instance type

Stage 3 – configure instance details

Stage 4 – add storage

Stage 5 – tag instances

Stage 6 – configure security groups

Stage 7 – review instance launch

Connecting to your instance

Configuring your instances

Launching instances using the AWS CLI

Stage 1 – create a key pair

Stage 2 – create a security group

Stage 3 – add rules to your security group

Stage 4 – launch the instance

Cleaning up!

Planning your next steps

Recommendations and best practices

Summary

4. Security, Storage, Networking, and Lots More!

An overview of security groups

Understanding EC2 networking

Determining your instances IP addresses

Working with Elastic IP addresses

Create an Elastic IP address

Allocating Elastic IP addresses

Disassociating and releasing an Elastic IP address

Understanding EBS volumes

EBS volume types

Getting started with EBS Volumes

Creating EBS volumes

Attaching EBS volumes

Accessing volumes from an instance

Detaching EBS volumes

Managing EBS volumes using the AWS CLI

Backing up volumes using EBS snapshots

Planning your next steps

Recommendations and best practices

Summary

5. Building Your Own Private Clouds Using Amazon VPC

An overview of Amazon VPC

VPC concepts and terminologies

Subnets

Security groups and network ACLs

Routing tables

VPC endpoints

Internet Gateways

NAT instances

DNS and DHCP Option Sets

VPC limits and costs

Working with VPCs

VPC deployment scenarios

Getting started with the VPC wizard

Viewing VPCs

Listing out subnets

Working with route tables

Listing Internet Gateways

Working with security groups and Network ACLs

Launching instances in your VPC

Creating the web servers

Creating the database servers

Planning next steps

Best practices and recommendations

Summary

6. Monitoring Your AWS Infrastructure

An overview of Amazon CloudWatch

Concepts and terminologies

Metrics

Namespaces

Dimensions

Time stamps and periods

Units and statistics

Alarms

CloudWatch limits and costs

Getting started with CloudWatch

Monitoring your account's estimate charges using CloudWatch

Monitoring your instance's CPU Utilization using CloudWatch

Monitoring your instance's memory and disk utilization using CloudWatch Scripts

Creating CloudWatch access roles

Installing the CloudWatch monitoring scripts

Viewing the custom metrics from CloudWatch

Monitoring logs using CloudWatch Logs

CloudWatch Log concepts and terminologies

Getting Started with CloudWatch Logs

Viewing the logs

Creating metric filters and alarms

Planning your next steps

Recommendations and best practices

Summary

7. Manage Your Applications with Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing

An overview of Auto Scaling

Auto scaling components

Auto scaling groups

Launch configurations

Scaling plans

Introducing the Elastic Load Balancer

Creating your first Elastic Load Balancer

Step 1 – Defining the Load Balancer

Step 2 – Assign security groups

Step 3 – configure security settings

Step 4 – Configure Health Check

Step 5 – Add EC2 instances

Step 6 – Add tags

Step 7 – Review and Create

Getting started with Auto Scaling

Creating the Launch Configuration

Step 1 – Choose AMI

Step 2 – Choose Instance type

Step 3 – Configure details

Step 4 – Add storage

Step 5 – Configure Security Group

Step 6 – Review

Creating the Auto Scaling Group

Step 1 – Configure Auto Scaling group details

Step 2 – Configure scaling policies

Step 3 – Configure notifications

Step 4 – Configure tags

Step 5 – Review

Verifying and testing Auto Scaling

Suspend, resume and delete Auto Scaling

Planning your next steps

Recommendations and best practices

Summary

8. Database-as-a-Service Using Amazon RDS

An overview of Amazon RDS

RDS instance types

Multi-AZ deployments and Read Replicas

Working with Amazon RDS

Getting started with MySQL on Amazon RDS

Creating a MySQL DB instance

Step 1 – Select Engine

Step 2 – Production?

Step 3: Specify DB Details

Step 4: Configure Advanced Settings

Connecting remotely to your DB instance

Testing your database

Modifying your DB instances

Backing up DB instances

Creating Read Replicas and promoting them

Logging and monitoring your DB instance

Cleaning up your DB instances

Planning your next steps

Recommendations and best practices

Summary

9. Working with Simple Storage Service

Introducing Amazon S3

Getting started with S3

Creating buckets

Uploading your first object to a bucket

Viewing uploaded objects

Accessing buckets and objects using S3CMD

Managing an object's and bucket's permissions

Using buckets to host your websites

S3 events and notification

Bucket versioning and lifecycle management

Cross-Region Replication

Planning your next steps

Recommendations and best practices

Summary

10. Extended AWS Services for Your Applications

Introducing Amazon Route53

Working with Route53

Creating hosted zones

Getting started with traffic flow

Configuring health checks

Content delivery using Amazon CloudFront

Getting started with distributions

CloudFront recommendations and best practices

What's new in AWS?

Elastic Container Service

Elastic File System

Database migration made easy with Database Migration Service

Go serverless with AWS Lambda

Resources, recommendations, and best practices

Summary

Index