AWS administration-- the definitive guide: learn to design, build, and manage your infrastructure on the most popular of all the cloud platforms-- Amazon Web Services

Cover
 Copyright
 Credits
 About the Author
 About the Reviewer
 www.PacktPub.com
 Table of Contents
 Preface
 Chapter 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
 Getting started with AWS
 Introducing the AWS Management Console
 Getting started with AWS CLI
 Plan of attack!
 Summary
 Chapter 2: Security and Access Management
 Security and clouds
 Is AWS really secure Shared responsibility modelIdentity 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
 Chapter 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 instancesStage 1 --
choose AMI
 Stage 2 --
choose an instance type
 Stage 3 --
configure instance details
 Stage 4 --
add storage 
 Stage --
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 Chapter 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 practicesSummary
 Chapter 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