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AWS for System Administrators

You're reading from   AWS for System Administrators Build, automate, and manage your infrastructure on the most popular cloud platform – AWS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800201538
Length 388 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prashant Lakhera Prashant Lakhera
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: AWS Services and Tools
2. Chapter 1: Setting Up the AWS Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Protecting Your AWS Account Using IAM 4. Section 2: Building the Infrastructure
5. Chapter 3: Creating a Data Center in the Cloud Using VPC 6. Chapter 4: Scalable Compute Capacity in the Cloud via EC2 7. Section 3: Adding Scalability and Elasticity to the Infrastructure
8. Chapter 5: Increasing an Application's Fault Tolerance with Elastic Load Balancing 9. Chapter 6: Increasing Application Performance Using AWS Auto Scaling 10. Chapter 7: Creating a Relational Database in the Cloud using AWS Relational Database Service (RDS) 11. Section 4: The Monitoring, Metrics, and Backup Layers
12. Chapter 8: Monitoring AWS Services Using CloudWatch and SNS 13. Chapter 9: Centralizing Logs for Analysis 14. Chapter 10: Centralizing Cloud Backup Solution 15. Chapter 11: AWS Disaster Recovery Solutions 16. Chapter 12: AWS Tips and Tricks 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the installation of tools such as the AWS CLI, Boto3, CloudFormation (verification), and Terraform. We also wrote simple code to verify these applications. Now that we have installed all the tools and set up the environment, we will use these tools in future chapters to build the AWS infrastructure.

In the next chapter, we will see how to tighten security using AWS IAM, by applying IAM policies and roles. We will also look at some real-world examples on how to restrict users to specific instance types using IAM policy, and rotate access and secret keys using a Python Boto3 script.

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AWS for System Administrators
Published in: Feb 2021
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781800201538
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