Website Hosting and Migration with Amazon Web Services: A Practical Guide to Moving Your Website to AWS

✍ Scribed by Jason Nadon (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 262
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Understand the steps necessary to host your website using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. You will be able to set up your website for the first time or migrate your existing website.

Explore scenarios, considerations, and steps for three types of websites, including hosting a static website, a content management system (CMS) based website, and a full-featured enterprise level website. Topic areas such as content storage in S3, compute resources in EC2, Route53 DNS Management, email services setup using Simple Email Service as well as strategies for high availability, fault tolerance, and website maintenance are covered.

Website Hosting and Migration with Amazon Web Services is organized in a way that allows you to start with simple concepts using AWS core services that allow you to build knowledge and confidence using AWS services while exploring the latest technology on this ever-updating platform. Using AWS to host your website offers you more control over your infrastructure, content delivery, and ability to scale to fit your website needs. It’s time to take control and take your website to the next level. This engaging resource:

• Explains how to use the Amazon Web Services Free Tier to evaluate the platform for hosting your website
• Walks you through the setup and migration steps for three unique and popular web hosting scenarios
• Delivers hands-on experience with base concepts that can be built upon to grow and improve your website infrastructure
• Provides sample resources to test and understand the setup process fully

What You'll Learn

• Evaluate Amazon Web Services (AWS) offered on the platform that may benefit your website
  
• Set up and maintain three unique types of websites using AWS core services, enabling you to gain a deeper understanding of what is capable for your website or future projects
  
• Select AWS services that can improve performance and control of your website
  
• Use AWS RDS to deliver a redundant database solution for your website
• Manage DNS, domain registration, and transfers in AWS
  
• Use CloudFront to deliver content efficiently on a global scale
Who This Book Is For


Small business owners, webmasters, freelance web designers, and others looking to have more control over their web content, save money by using a platform that charges for just the services you use, or grow the stability of their website by making it highly available, fault tolerant, and easily deployed; those looking to learn more about AWS Web Hosting options in general.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Static Content Scenario....Pages 3-5
Introduction to AWS Free Tier....Pages 7-14
Your Content Solution: An Introduction to AWS S3....Pages 15-24
Setting Up Your Website Content and Domain....Pages 25-48
Next-Level Static Content Hosting....Pages 49-74
Logging and Monitoring....Pages 75-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Platform/CMS Website Scenario....Pages 99-101
Architecture of a CMS Website....Pages 103-115
Static and Dynamic Storage Options in AWS....Pages 117-125
Database Services in AWS....Pages 127-151
Building the Infrastructure....Pages 153-166
Updating the Stack....Pages 167-178
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Building Upon Your Foundation....Pages 181-184
Enterprise Website Scenario....Pages 185-188
EC2 Resources at Scale....Pages 189-202
Content Lifecycles, Management, and Backup....Pages 203-212
Extending Your Reach with Workflow Services and Development Tools....Pages 213-223
AWS Security and Securing Website Communication....Pages 225-233
AWS Enterprise Applications....Pages 235-249
Additional Resources....Pages 251-253
Back Matter....Pages 255-257

✦ Subjects

Computer Communication Networks