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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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Setting up two VPCs

Think of VPC as your data center in the cloud, but instead of spending months or years setting up that data center, it's now a matter of a few clicks (API calls).

VPC provides you with a logically isolated section in the cloud where you can launch your AWS resources inside the virtual network you provide. Network isolation offers you other advantages, such as choosing your IP address range, defining your subnets, and configuring the route table and gateways, which we will discuss in detail later in this chapter.

The architecture we will build in this chapter is as follows:

A VPC in two availability zones (us-west-2 Oregon) and (us-east-2 Ohio).
Each availability zone will have two subnets (Oregon: 10.0.1.0/24, 10.0.4.0/24 in us-west-2a, 10.0.2.0/24, 10.0.5.0/24 in us-west-2b, and 10.0.3.0/24, 10.0.6.0/24 in us-west-2c; Ohio: 172.16.1.0/24, 172.16.4.0/24 in us-east-2a, 172.16.2.0/24, 172.16.5.0/24 in us-east-2b, and 172.16.3.0/24, 172.16.6...