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AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide. - Second Edition

You're reading from AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide. - Second Edition

Product type Book

Published in Mar 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788478793

Pages 358 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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System Administration

Author (1):

Yohan Wadia

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page

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Preface

1. What's New in AWS?

2. Managing EC2 with Systems Manager

3. Introducing Elastic Beanstalk and Elastic File System

4. Securing Workloads Using AWS WAF

5. Governing Your Environments Using AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config

6. Access Control Using AWS IAM and AWS Organizations

7. Transforming Application Development Using the AWS Code Suite

8. Messaging in the Cloud Using Amazon SNS and Amazon SQS

9. Powering Analytics Using Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift

10. Orchestrating Data using AWS Data Pipeline

11. Connecting the World with AWS IoT and AWS Greengrass

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Summary

Well, like all good journeys, this book too has come to its end! I just wanted to take this time to say that it has really been a wonderful journey and experience writing this book! Although the book may seem a lot to read and grasp, trust me, this is all just a drop in the ocean! AWS continuously strives to evolve its services by adding more and more features to it, so much so, that today you have ready-to-use services for almost anything, including game development, AI, customer engagement, business productivity, just to name a few!

To quickly summarize all that we have learned so far: we started our journey with some interesting hands-on with the EC2 Systems Manager, shortly followed by two of my favorite services, the Elastic Beanstalk and the Elastic File System. We also covered a lot on security in the form of AWS WAF, AWS Shield, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS Config! Towards the end, we started exploring a few developer-based services in the form of AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodeCommit...

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Authors (1)

Yohan Wadia

Yohan Wadia is a client-focused evangelist and technologist with an experience of more than 8 years in the cloud industry. He focuses on helping customers succeed with cloud adoption. As a technical consultant, he guides customers with pragmatic solutions that leverage cloud computing through either Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, or Google Cloud Platform and make practical and business sense.

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