Thousands of developers have chosen 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. This revised third edition features new chapters on containerization, along with a variety of AWS innovations. You’ll also learn how automating your infrastructure with IAC is a game changer for your cloud deployment, delivering a massive boost to efficiency and quality. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. 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. In , the Wittig brothers give you a comprehensive, practical introduction to deploying and managing applications on the AWS cloud platform. With a sharp focus on the most important AWS tasks and services, they will save you hours of unproductive time. You’ll learn hands-on as you complete real-world projects like hosting a WordPress site, setting up a private cloud, and deploying an app on containers. Written for mid-level developers, DevOps or platform engineers, architects, and system administrators. and are software engineers and consultants focused on AWS. Together, they migrated the first bank in Germany to AWS in 2013. Table of Contents 1 What is Amazon Web Services? 2 A simple example: WordPress in 15 minutes 3 Using virtual machines: EC2 4 Programming your infrastructure: The command line, SDKs, and CloudFormation 5 Securing your system: IAM, security groups, and VPC 6 Automating operational tasks with Lambda 7 Storing your objects: S3 8 Storing data on hard drives: EBS and instance store 9 Sharing data volumes between machines: EFS 10 Using a relational database service: RDS 11 Caching data in memory: Amazon ElastiCache and MemoryDB 12 Programming for the NoSQL database service: DynamoDB 13 Achieving high availability: Availability zones, autoscaling, and CloudWatch 14 Decoupling your infrastructure: Elastic Load Balancing and Simple Queue Service 15 Automating deployment: CodeDeploy, CloudFormation, and Packer 16 Designing for fault tolerance 17 Scaling up and down: Autoscaling and CloudWatch 18 Building modern architectures for the cloud: ECS, Fargate, and App Runner