Amazon Web Services in Action: An in-depth guide to AWS - Softcover

Wittig, Andreas; Wittig, Michael

 
9781633439160: Amazon Web Services in Action: An in-depth guide to AWS
Softcover
ISBN 10: 163343916X ISBN 13: 9781633439160
Publisher: Manning Publications, 2023

Synopsis

Master essential best practices for deploying and managing applications on Amazon Web Services.

The ideal guide for mid-level developers, DevOps or platform engineers, architects, and system administrators.

Amazon Web Services in Action: An in-depth guide to AWS is a comprehensive, practical introduction to deploying and managing applications on the AWS cloud platform. This revised bestseller is packed with techniques for building highly available and scalable architectures and automating deployment with Infrastructure as Code.

This book will show you how to:

  • Leverage globally distributed data centres to launch virtual machines with EC2
  • Store and archive large volumes of data with EBS, S3, and EFS
  • Persist and query data with highly available and scalable database systems with RDS and DynamoDB
  • Enhance performance with caching data in-memory with ElastiCache and MemoryDB
  • Use Infrastructure as Code to automate your cloud infrastructure
  • Secure workloads running in the cloud with VPC and IAM
  • Build fault-tolerant web applications with ALB and SQS
  • Automate common sysadmin tasks with Lambda, CLI, and SDK
  • Build cloud-native applications based on containers with AppRunner, ECS, Fargate

About the technology

Thousands of developers have chosen Amazon Web Services in Action: An in-depth guide to AWS to help them succeed with the AWS cloud. Readers love this all-practical handbook for its complete introduction to computing, storage, and networking, along with best practices for all core AWS services.

Amazon Web Services, the leading cloud computing platform, offers customers APIs for on-demand access to computing services. Rich in examples and best practices of how to use AWS, this Manning bestseller is now released in its third, revised, and improved edition.

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About the Author

Andreas Wittig and Michael Wittig are software engineers and consultants focused on AWS. Together, they migrated the first bank in Germany to AWS in 2013.

From the Back Cover

In Amazon Web Services in Action, Third Edition: An in-depth guide to AWS, the Wittig brothers give you a comprehensive, practical introduction to deploying and managing applications on the AWS cloud platform. With a sharp focus on the most important AWS tasks and services, they will save you hours of unproductive time. You will learn hands-on as you complete real-world projects like hosting a WordPress site, setting up a private cloud, and deploying an app on containers.

About the reader

Written for mid-level developers, DevOps or platform engineers, architects, and system administrators.

This revised third edition features new chapters on containerization, along with a variety of AWS innovations. You will also learn how automating your infrastructure with IAC is a game changer for your cloud deployment, delivering a massive boost to efficiency and quality. You will learn how to:

  • Leverage globally distributed data centers to launch virtual machines
  • Enhance performance with caching data in-memory
  • Secure workloads running in the cloud with VPC and IAM
  • Build fault-tolerant web applications with ALB and SQS

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Publisher
Manning Publications
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
163343916X
ISBN 13 
9781633439160
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
3
Number of pages
500