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The companion videos for Learning Amazon Web Services (AWS), the The Practical, Foundational Technical Introduction to the World’s #1 Cloud Platform
Learning Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the perfect foundational resource for all administrators, developers, project managers, and other IT professionals who want to plan and deploy AWS services and/or earn AWS certification.
Top cloud trainer and evangelist Mark Wilkins teaches best practices that align with Amazon’s Well-Architected Framework, introduces key concepts in the context of a running case study, carefully explains how core AWS services operate and integrate, and offers extensively tested tips for maximizing flexibility, security, and value. Companion online videos guide you step-by-step through setting AWS compute, storage, networking, scale, security, automation, and more.
- Balance cost, compliance, and latency in your service designs
- Choose the right networking options for your virtual private cloud (VPC)
- Build, host, launch, manage, and budget for EC2 compute services
- Plan for scale and resiliency, and make informed decisions about AWS storage
- Enforce strict security, and automate to improve operational efficiency
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Sign Up for AWS Free Tier
Chapter 2
Availability Zones
Choosing Regions
Planning Compliance
Trusted Advisor
Using the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
Chapter 3
Adding an Internet Gateway
Creating a Custom VPC
Creating CIDR Blocks
Creating Public and Private Subnets
Creating Security Groups
Creating VPN Connections
Network ACLs
Route Tables
Understanding Endpoints
VPC Flow Logs
Chapter 4
Creating a Custom AMI
Creating Instances
Creating Reserved Instances
Spot Instances
Chapter 5
CloudWatch in Operation
Connection Draining
Creating a CloudWatch Alarm
Creating a Launch Template
Creating a Network Load Balancer
Creating Listener Rules
Deploying EC2 Autorecovery
EC2 Autoscale
Installing the CloudWatch Agent
Understanding ELB Features
Chapter 6
Creating Aurora Databases
Creating Dynamo db Tables
Creating EBS Volumes
Creating EFS Storage
Creating S3 Buckets
Creating Snapshots
Data Transfer Options
FSx Setup for Windows
Ordering RDS
S3 Management Features
Chapter 7
Creating IAM Policies
Creating IAM Users and Groups
Creating Permission Boundaries
Defining Password Policy
Enabling MFA Protection
Exploring AWS Security Tools
Exploring CloudTrail Events
Setting Up AWS Organizations and RAM
Chapter 8
Analyzing a Cloud Formation Template
CloudWatch Alerts and Lambda
Creating Change Sets with Cloud Formation
Creating EC2 Instances with Cloud Formation
Creating Lambda Functions
Creating Products with Service Catalog
Deploying Elastic Beanstalk
S3 Buckets and Alerts using Lambda
Updating Elastic Beanstalk with a Blue Green Deployment
Using the API Gateway