Master essential best practices for deploying and managing applications on Amazon Web Services.

The ideal guide for mid-level developers, DevOps or platform engineers, architects, and system administrators.

Amazon Web Services in Action: An in-depth guide to AWS is a comprehensive, practical introduction to deploying and managing applications on the AWS cloud platform. This revised bestseller is packed with techniques for building highly available and scalable architectures and automating deployment with Infrastructure as Code.

This book will show you how to:

• Leverage globally distributed data centres to launch virtual machines with EC2
• Store and archive large volumes of data with EBS, S3, and EFS
• Persist and query data with highly available and scalable database systems with RDS and DynamoDB
• Enhance performance with caching data in-memory with ElastiCache and MemoryDB
• Use Infrastructure as Code to automate your cloud infrastructure
• Secure workloads running in the cloud with VPC and IAM
• Build fault-tolerant web applications with ALB and SQS
• Automate common sysadmin tasks with Lambda, CLI, and SDK
• Build cloud-native applications based on containers with AppRunner, ECS, Fargate

About the technology

Thousands of developers have chosen Amazon Web Services in Action: An in-depth guide to AWS to help them succeed with the AWS cloud. Readers love this all-practical handbook for its complete introduction to computing, storage, and networking, along with best practices for all core AWS services.

Amazon Web Services, the leading cloud computing platform, offers customers APIs for on-demand access to computing services. Rich in examples and best practices of how to use AWS, this Manning bestseller is now released in its third, revised, and improved edition.

About the Author

Andreas Wittig and Michael Wittig are software engineers and consultants focused on AWS. Together, they migrated the first bank in Germany to AWS in 2013.

Reviews

"Up-to-date coverage. Code examples and configurations are all excellent. Even containerization is very well explained. This is the bible for Amazon Web Services."
Mohammad Shahnawaz Akhter, Bank of America

"It has never been so easy to learn AWS."
Jorge Ezequiel Bo, TravelX

"Essential for those who decide to embark on the Amazon cloud journey."
Matteo Rossi, UnipolSai Assicurazioni

A complete introduction to the most important AWS Services with very useful practical examples.
Matteo Battista, GamePix

Book Information
ISBN 9781633439160
Author Andreas Wittig
Format Paperback
Page Count 500
Imprint Manning Publications
Publisher Manning Publications
Weight(grams) 1004g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 186mm * 28mm