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stores and act as data provisions more routes traffic
delivers data. volumes. or fewer instances among multiple
as necessary. servers.
How AWS data and security services are used to help an EC2 compute instance deliver its network-facing
application:
1 VPCs encompass all the AWS resources in an application deployment.
2 There are two kinds of subnets: private and public. They can be located in separate availability
zones and are used to manage and, where needed, isolate resources.
3 Security groups’ rules control the movement of data between resources.
4 The EC2 Amazon Machine Image (AMI) acts as a template for replicating precise operating sys-
tem environments.
5 The Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket can store and deliver data for both backup and delivery
to users.
6 Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes act as data volumes (like hard drives) for an instance.
7 The auto scaler permits automatic provisioning of greater (or fewer) instances to meet changing
demands on an application.
8 The load balancer routes traffic among multiple servers to ensure the smoothest and most effi-
cient user experience.
Learn Amazon Web Services
in a Month of Lunches
Learn Amazon Web Services
in a Month of Lunches
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brief contents
1 ■ Before you begin 1
PART 1 THE CORE AWS TOOLS...................................................13
2 ■ The 10-minute EC2 web server 15
3 ■ Provisioning a more robust EC2 website 33
4 ■ Databases on AWS 51
5 ■ DNS: what’s in a name? 68
6 ■ S3: cheap, fast file storage 83
7 ■ S3: cheap, fast system backups 97
8 ■ AWS security: working with IAM users, groups,
and roles 112
9 ■ Managing growth 127
10 ■ Pushing back against the chaos:
using resource tags 136
11 ■ CloudWatch: monitoring AWS resources for fun
and profit 147
12 ■ Another way to play: the command-line interface 159
PART 2 THE AWS POWER USER: OPTIMIZING
YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE................................................171
13 ■ Keeping ahead of user demand 173
14 ■ High availability: working with AWS
networking tools 180
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vi BRIEF CONTENTS
15 ■ High availability: load balancing 199
16 ■ High availability: auto scaling 212
17 ■ High availability: content-delivery networks 225
PART 3 FOOD FOR THOUGHT: WHAT ELSE CAN AWS
DO FOR YOU?................................................................239
18 ■ Building hybrid infrastructure 241
19 ■ Cloud automation: working with Elastic Beanstalk,
Docker, and Lambda 253
20 ■ Everything else (nearly) 266
21 ■ Never the end 284
contents
preface xv
acknowledgments xvii
about this book xix
1 Before you begin 1
1.1 Is this book for you? 2
1.2 Using this book 3
The main chapters 3 ■ Hands-on labs 4 ■ Try it now 4
1.3 Being immediately effective 5
1.4 Setting up your lab environment 5
1.5 Finding help 8
1.6 How AWS does it 8
The big picture 10
PART 1 THE CORE AWS TOOLS....................................13
2 The 10-minute EC2 web server 15
2.1 What is EC2, and what does it do? 16
2.2 Launching an AWS instance 17
2.3 Accessing your AWS instance 23
2.4 Building an Ubuntu Linux web server 24
Installing the software 25 ■ Creating the website 28
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viii CONTENTS
2.5 Troubleshooting 30
2.6 Lab 31
3 Provisioning a more robust EC2 website 33
3.1 Calculating capacity needs 33
3.2 Getting the measure of EC2’s core compute services 34
vCPU 34 ■ EBS 34 ■ Memory 35 ■ Bandwidth 35
3.3 Assessing your application 35
3.4 Choosing the right instance for your project 38
3.5 Adding WordPress 41
Preparing the server 42 ■ Preparing MySQL 42
Downloading and configuring WordPress 43
Setting up the WordPress filesystem 46 ■ Testing your
application 47 ■ What next? 48
3.6 Lab 49
4 Databases on AWS 51
4.1 The database 51
4.2 Choosing the right database model 52
Relational databases 52 ■ NoSQL databases 53
How to choose 53
4.3 Infrastructure design: where does
your database belong? 54
4.4 Estimating costs 56
4.5 Migrating your database to RDS 57
Creating a MySQL dump 58
4.6 Building an Amazon RDS instance 58
4.7 Configuring security group settings 63
4.8 Populating the new database 64
4.9 Lab 66
5 DNS: what’s in a name? 68
5.1 Adding a name to public indexes 70
5.2 Configuring your hosted zone 71
Configuring record sets 72 ■ Elastic IP addresses 75
