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Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801075930

Length 630 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Rajesh Daswani

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Cloud Concepts

2. Chapter 1: What Is Cloud Computing? FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Introduction to AWS and the Global Infrastructure

4. Chapter 3: Exploring AWS Accounts, Multi-Account Strategy, and AWS Organizations

5. Section 2: AWS Technologies

6. Chapter 4: Identity and Access Management

7. Chapter 5: Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

8. Chapter 6: AWS Networking Services – VPCs, Route53, and CloudFront

9. Chapter 7: AWS Compute Services

10. Chapter 8: AWS Database Services

11. Chapter 9: High Availability and Elasticity on AWS

12. Chapter 10: Application Integration Services

13. Chapter 11: Analytics on AWS

14. Chapter 12: Automation and Deployment on AWS

15. Chapter 13: Management and Governance on AWS

16. Section 3: AWS Security

17. Chapter 14: Implementing Security in AWS

18. Section 4: Billing and Pricing

19. Chapter 15: Billing and Pricing

20. Chapter 16: Mock Tests

21. Answers

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Chapter 2: Introduction to AWS and the Global Infrastructure

In this chapter, we discuss what Amazon Web Services (AWS) is, examine its brief history, and also aim to understand the AWS Global Infrastructure. The Global Infrastructure gives you access to AWS data centers across different continents, enabling you to build highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable solutions for your customers. In addition, you can also ensure that you place workloads closer to the location of your customers and fulfill any compliance or regulatory requirements.

This key offering from AWS enables you to access and launch resources across different Regions. An in-depth understanding of this will help you meet your clients' requirements—adherence to regulatory and compliance requirements, disaster recovery (DR) solutions, and even cost savings—all leading to a better customer experience.

We also look at the support plans offered by AWS to its customers. Your clients may require...