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AWS Administration ??? The Definitive Guide

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Product type Book

Published in Feb 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781782173755

Pages 326 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Cloud Computing

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

AWS Administration – The Definitive Guide

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Introducing Amazon Web Services

2. Security and Access Management

3. Images and Instances

4. Security, Storage, Networking, and Lots More!

5. Building Your Own Private Clouds Using Amazon VPC

6. Monitoring Your AWS Infrastructure

7. Manage Your Applications with Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing

8. Database-as-a-Service Using Amazon RDS

9. Working with Simple Storage Service

10. Extended AWS Services for Your Applications

Index

Introducing Amazon S3

Ever used Dropbox to store and back up your important data and files? Or how about Netflix to watch your favorite TV shows online? Both Dropbox and Netflix have one very interesting thing in common, which you may have guessed already! They are both using Amazon S3 to store and retrieve data. How much data are we talking about here? Well, way back in 2008, S3 was storing approximately 30 billion objects or unique data elements in it. This number has grown exponentially ever since with approximately 2 trillion objects reportedly stored in S3 as of April 2013, so no prizes for guessing what this number has gone up to today! But enough numbers, let's learn a bit more about what Amazon S3 actually is.

To begin with, Amazon S3 is a highly scalable, durable, and low cost storage as a service option provided by AWS for everyone to use. Using S3, you can upload virtually any file, folder, or data from anywhere on the web and retrieve it just as easily all the while paying only...

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