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Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800201538

Length 388 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Prashant Lakhera

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

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

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