Cloud Computing with AWS: Everything You Need to Know to be an AWS Cloud Practitioner

✍ Scribed by Pravin Mishra

• Publisher: Apress
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 340
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Embark on a ground-up journey to cloud computing and the Amazon Web Services (AWS) eco-system, including all the other systems, services, and the security associated with it. This book provides you with the practical know-how to become an AWS Cloud practitioner.
Your exploration will take you from key fundamentals of identity and access, storage, networking, architectures, databases, security and compute services all the way through to more advanced topics. The book is organized into easy-to-follow and engaging chapters with simple examples to make complex concepts very easy to understand followed by simple step-by-step demonstrations and case studies to make you proficient in every area of AWS. 
You'll manage databases in your on-prem data centers and set up, operate, and scale relational database in the cloud. All the services and resources taught in this book come from the AWS Free Tier, so you will not have to pay anything to use and learn from this book.

 What You'll Learn

• Understand key concepts and benefits of cloud computing
• Employ key cloud computing models and services 
• Review the concept of virtual machines in a cloud computing context
  
• Study compute services that meet your requirements

Who This Book Is For

IT professionals looking to change their domain to cloud computing as well as those who are looking to utilize AWS for their systems and projects. 

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
About the Author
About the Technical Reviewers
Chapter 1: Introduction to Cloud Computing
Defining Cloud Computing
Compute
Storage
Database
Networking
Fundamentals of the Cloud
Cloud Deployment Models
Private Clouds
Public Clouds
Hybrid Clouds
Traditional Data Centers
Cost
Capacity Planning
Staffing and Technical Skill Sets
Cloud Service Models
IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Key Cloud Concepts
Scalability
Elasticity
Agility
High Availability
Fault Tolerance
The Benefits of Cloud Computing
Trade Fixed Expenses for Variable Expenses
Benefit from Massive Economies of Scale
Stop Guessing at Capacity
Increased Speed and Agility
Don’t Spend Money on Running and Maintaining Data Centers
Go Global in Minutes
The Different Cloud Providers
Summary
Chapter 2: Getting Started with AWS
AWS Accounts
AWS Free Tier
Securing an AWS Account
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Access Key and Secret Key
Password Policy
AWS Budgets and Alerts
Interacting with AWS
The AWS Management Console
AWS CLI
The Software Development Kit (SDK)
Using the AWS Console
Creating an Account Alias
AWS Region
Search AWS Services
Installing the AWS CLI
Using the AWS CLI
The AWS Global Infrastructure
AWS Regions and Availability Zones
What Are Availability Zones?
AWS Edge Locations
Summary
Chapter 3: AWS Identity and Access Management
What Is Identity and Access Management?
Identification
Authentication
Authorization
A Closer Look at AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM)
IAM Users, Groups, and Roles
Root User
IAM User
IAM Groups
IAM Role
Creating an IAM User, Group, and Role
Creating Users
Creating Groups
Logging In with the IAM User and Creating Roles
IAM Policies and Features
Types of Policies
Identity-Based Policy
Resource-Based Policy
Managed Policies
AWS Managed Policy
Customer-Managed Policies
Inline Policy
IAM Best Practices
User
Group
Permissions
Auditing
Password Policy
MFA
Rotate
Root User
AWS Core Services
Storage Services
Compute Services
Database Services
Networking Services
Summary
Chapter 4: AWS Storage Services
Overview of Amazon S3
S3 Buckets
Folders
S3 Objects
Maximum Object Size
Object Versioning
Storage Class
Permissions
Amazon S3 Demo
Availability, Durability, and Data Replication
Availability
Durability
Data Replication
Storage Classes
S3 Standard
Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering (S3 Intelligent-Tiering)
Standard IA (Infrequent Access)
One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA)
Glacier
Reduced Redundancy
Summary
Chapter 5: Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
What Is a VPC?
Subnets, Internet Gateways, Route Tables, and NAT Gateways
Public Subnet
Private Subnet
Internet Gateway
Route Table
NAT Gateway
Security Groups and NACLs
Inbound Traffic
Outbound Traffic
What Is an AWS Security Group?
What Is an NACL?
What Is the Difference Between a Security Group and NACL?
Create a VPC, Public, and Private Subnet
Summary
Chapter 6: Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Compute Services in AWS
Virtual Machines
Cost Savings
Agility and Speed
Less Downtime
Scalability
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Amazon EC2 Components
Instances
AMI (Amazon Machine Image)
Key Pairs
Security Groups
EC2 Tags
EC2 Instance Naming Conventions
An AWS EC2 Instance Family
An AWS EC2 Instance Generation
AWS EC2 Additional Capability
AWS EC2 Instance Size
Instance Sizing
Instance Types
General-Purpose Instances
Compute-Optimized Instances
Memory-Optimized Instances
Storage-Optimized Instances
Amazon EC2 Purchase Types
On-Demand Instances
Paying for Compute Capacity by the Hour or Second
No Long-Term Commitments
No Upfront Payment, But High Cost
Use Cases for On-Demand Instances
Reserved Instances
Reservation Periods
75 Percent Discount Compared to On-Demand Instances
Reserve-Specific Instance Types
Standard Reserve Instance Types
Convertible Reserved Instance Types
Schedule Reserve Instance Types
Spot Instance Type
Lost Any Time
Spot Instance Type User Case
The Savings Plan
Significant Savings
Flexible Plans
Compute Savings Plan
Instance Savings Plan
Amazon SageMaker Savings Plan
Dedicated Hosts
Create an EC2 Instance
Summary
Chapter 7: High-Level Architecture
Autoscaling
What Is AWS Autoscaling?
EC2 Autoscaling Group
Minimum Size
Desired Capacity
Maximum Size
EC2 Autoscaling Policies
Manual Scaling
Dynamic Scaling
Simple/Step Scaling
Target Tracking Scaling
Scheduled Scaling
Predictive Scaling
Use Launch Configuration and Launch Template
Launch Configuration
Launch Template
Load Balancer
Elastic Load Balancer
AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
Using ELB and Autoscaling Together
Create a Launch Template
Create an Autoscaling Group
Create a Scaling Policy
Create an Application Load Balancer
Summary
Chapter 8: Databases
Data Types
Structured Data
Unstructured Data
Semi-Structured Data
Relational Databases
NoSQL Databases
On-Premise vs Cloud Database Hosting
Amazon Relational Database Service
Amazon RDS Overview
RDS Availability
RDS Instance Type
RDS Database Engine
RDS Pricing
Instance Cost
Storage Cost
Amazon DynamoDB
DynamoDB Overview
Create Your First Amazon RDS Database
Create a Subnet Group
Create an RDS Database
Summary
Chapter 9: Advanced AWS Services
EBS Overview
EBS Features
Types of EBS Volumes
EFS Overview
DNS and Amazon Route 53
AWS VPN and AWS Direct Connect
Compute Fundamentals for AWS
Elastic Container Service
EC2 Launch Type
Fargate Launch Type
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Serverless Services
AWS Lambda
Automatic Scaling
Pay Per User Price
RAM
Integration
Lambda Functions
Introduction to Amazon ElastiCache and DynamoDB
Amazon ElastiCache
How ElastiCache Works
ElastiCache Use Cases
Amazon Redshift
Amazon CloudFront
Data Transfer with AWS Snowball
Snowball versus Snowball Edge Devices
AWS Storage Gateway
Storage Gateway Use Cases
Summary
Chapter 10: AWS Security and Management Services
AWS Security Services Overview
The Shared Responsibility Model
AWS Is Responsible for the Security “of” the Cloud
The Customer Is Responsible for Security “in” the Cloud
AWS Recap
Security Compliance
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard)
AWS Tools and Products for Security Compliance
Encryption in AWS
Encryption in Transit
Encryption at Rest
The AWS Config Service
AWS Config Rules
AWS CloudTrail
Enabling and Configuring CloudTrail
How CloudTrail Works
Amazon Trusted Advisor
Amazon CloudWatch
How Amazon CloudWatch Works
CloudWatch Uses Cases
AWS Support Plan
The Basic Support Plan
The Developer Support Plan
The Business Support Plan
The Enterprise Support Plan
Summary
Chapter 11: AWS Billing and Pricing
AWS Pricing Principles
Pay as You Go
Pay Less by Using More
Save When You Reserve
Free Usage Tier
AWS Organization
Master Account
Member Account
Organization Unit (OU)
Service Control Policy (SCP)
Consolidated Billing
One Bill
Easy Tracking
Combined Usage
No Extra Fees
AWS Cost Management Tool
The Billing and Cost Management Console
AWS Resource and Cost Allocation Tags
Consolidated Billing
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Budget
Automated Billing
AWS Pricing Calculator
Summary
Index