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Create dynamic cloud-based websites with Amazon Web Services and this friendly guide!

As the largest cloud computing platform in the world, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides one of the most popular web services options available. This easy-to-understand guide is the perfect introduction to the Amazon Web Services platform and all it can do for you. You'll learn about the Amazon Web Services tool set; how different web services (including S3, Amazon EC2, and Amazon Flexible Payments) and Glacier work; and how you can implement AWS in your organization.

• Explains how to use Amazon Web Services to store objects, take payments, manage large quantities of data, send e-mails, deploy push notifications, and more from your website
• Details how AWS can reduce costs, improve efficiency, increase productivity, and cut down on expensive hardware investments - and administrative headaches - in your organization
• Includes practical examples and helpful step-by-step lists to help you experiment with different AWS features and create a robust website that meets your needs

Amazon Web Services For Dummies is exactly what you need to get your head in the cloud with Amazon Web Services!

Leverage this step-by-step guide to build a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable Cloud environment

Key Features

• Learn how to leverage various Amazon Web Services (AWS) components and services to build a secure, reliable, and robust environment to host your applications on.
• Delve into core AWS service offerings with hands-on tutorials, real-world use case scenarios, and best practices.
• A self-paced, systematic, and step-by-step guide to learning and implementing AWS in your own environment.

Book Description

Many businesses are moving from traditional data centers to AWS because of its reliability, vast service offerings, lower costs, and high rate of innovation. AWS can be used to accomplish a variety of both simple and tedious tasks. Whether you are a seasoned system admin or a rookie, this book will help you to learn all the skills you need to work with the AWS cloud.

This book guides you through some of the most popular AWS services, such as EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, EFS, CloudTrail, Redshift, EMR, Data Pipeline, and IoT using a simple, real-world, application-hosting example. This book will also enhance your application delivery skills with the latest AWS services, such as CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline, to provide continuous delivery and deployment, while also securing and monitoring your environment's workflow. Each chapter is designed to provide you with maximal information about each AWS service, coupled with easy to follow, hands-on steps, best practices, tips, and recommendations.

By the end of the book, you will be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications to run on.

What you will learn

• Take an in-depth look at what's new with AWS, along with how to effectively manage and automate your EC2 infrastructure with AWS Systems Manager
• Deploy and scale your applications with ease using AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Amazon Elastic File System
• Secure and govern your environments using AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config, and AWS Shield
• Learn the DevOps way using a combination of AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline
• Run big data analytics and workloads using Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift
• Learn to back up and safeguard your data using AWS Data Pipeline
• Get started with the Internet of Things using AWS IoT and AWS Greengrass

Who This Book Is For

This book is for those who want to learn and leverage the rich plethora of services provided by AWS. Although no prior experience with AWS is required, it is recommended that you have some hands-on experience of Linux, Web Services, and basic networking.

Table of Contents

1. What's New in AWS!
2. Managing EC2 with Systems manager
3. Introducing Elastic Beanstalk and Elastic File System
4. Securing workloads using AWS WAF
5. Governing Your Environments Using AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config
6. Access Control Using AWS IAM and AWS Organizations
7. Transforming Application development using the AWS Code Suite
8. Messaging in the Cloud using Amazon SNS and Amazon SQS
9. Powering Analytics Using Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift
10. Orchestrating Data using AWS Data Pipeline
11. Connecting the World with AWS IoT and AWS Greengrass