Amazon Web Services in Action
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Summary
Amazon Web Services in Action, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to computing, storing, and networking in the AWS cloud. You’ll find clear, relevant coverage of all the essential AWS services you to know, emphasizing best practices for security, high availability and scalability.
Foreword by Ben Whaley, AWS community hero and author.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the Technology
The largest and most mature of the cloud platforms, AWS offers over 100 prebuilt services, practically limitless compute resources, bottomless secure storage, as well as top-notch automation capabilities. This book shows you how to develop, host, and manage applications on AWS.
About the Book
Amazon Web Services in Action, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to deploying web applications in the AWS cloud. You’ll find clear, relevant coverage of all essential AWS services, with a focus on automation, security, high availability, and scalability. This thoroughly revised edition covers the latest additions to AWS, including serverless infrastructure with AWS Lambda, sharing data with EFS, and in-memory storage with ElastiCache.
What’s inside
Completely revised bestsellerSecure and scale distributed applicationsDeploy applications on AWSDesign for failure to achieve high availabilityAutomate your infrastructure
About the Reader
Written for mid-level developers and DevOps engineers.
About the Author
Andreas Wittig and Michael Wittig are software engineers and DevOps consultants focused on AWS. Together, they migrated the first bank in Germany to AWS in 2013.
Table of Contents
PART 1 – GETTING STARTED What is Amazon Web Services? A simple example: WordPress in five minutesPART 2 – BUILDING VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE CONSISTING OF COMPUTERS AND NETWORKING Using virtual machines: EC2 Programming your infrastructure: The command-line, SDKs, and CloudFormation Automating deployment: CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, and OpsWorks Securing your system: IAM, security groups, and VPC Automating operational tasks with Lambda PART 3 – STORING DATA IN THE CLOUDStoring your objects: S3 and Glacier Storing data on hard drives: EBS and instance store Sharing data volumes between machines: EFS Using a relational database service: RDSCaching data in memory: Amazon ElastiCache Programming for the NoSQL database service: DynamoDB PART 4 – ARCHITECTING ON AWSAchieving high availability: availability zones, auto-scaling, and CloudWatch Decoupling your infrastructure: Elastic Load Balancing and Simple Queue Service Designing for fault tolerance Scaling up and down: auto-scaling and CloudWatch
Publisher : Manning Publications; 2nd edition (October 16, 2018)
Language : English
Paperback : 528 pages
ISBN-10 : 1617295116
ISBN-13 : 978-1617295119
Item Weight : 1.98 pounds
Dimensions : 7.38 x 1.2 x 9.25 inches
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Original price was: $54.99.$36.48Current price is: $36.48.
David E. Smith Jr. –
Thorough and Defining
This book is a book that would be very helpful in understanding AWS. After reading this book, you will appreciate Amazon Cloud services. Using this book will also help you in studying for the AWS exam, even though that is not its intention. Thorough reading will clarify many gaps in your knowledge when studying.
Good Book –
Solid Book
Good AWS & Cloud Formation Fundamentals. Usually don’t write reviews but this book really didn’t deserve the 1 star review.
Patrick –
Great overview of major AWS services
Amazon Web Services in Action is a very high level primer book. If you know next to nothing about AWS this book is perfect. If youâve been studying AWS or using AWS for a few months this book is going to feel like a review. The book will give you a well thought out but shallow view of AWSâs major service offerings. If youâre looking to get AWS certified this book wonât give you a deep enough experience with AWS.Overall if you are just getting started with AWS this book is perfect but study quickly AWS is changing quickly and this book will be out of date soon.
Israel Johnson –
Item arrived Day later than anticipated.
Product was purchased new.
JCC –
Great primer!
Like many developers/software engineers out there who are not solely focused on DevOps, my purview of AWS has always been limited in scope. Itâs like seeing a painting from 5 feet away with a telescope. You only see a small slice of it. To be fair, AWS has gotten more complicated over time, not less. Amazon has focused on adding more and more features instead of making it easier to use. Itâs now a monolith that only those who work with it day in and day out can really know how to use it fully.AWS online documentation is not any easier to comprehend either. Many times, I find myself asking what are they talking about? Well, thatâs where this book comes in. The authors will walk you through the most used features of AWS and show you step by step how to set up and maintain the most popular resources.Although you can skip around to sections and topics you care about, I find myself reading it sequentially as your knowledge builds from chapter to chapter. Some of this I already know but a lot of it I donât know and much of it has changed from the last time I worked with it closely. One of the things thatâs new to me is the ability to automate a lot of resources with CloudFormation. Itâs basically a JSON object file that spells out your configuration so that you donât have to do it manually. It will take time to build one from scratch to your specific spec but the examples the book has is a good template on how to write your own.Like anything else, it will take time to master the lessons in the book. Thereâs a lot to cover and unless youâre doing this day in and day out, this book will be a good reference to keep nearby until AWS changes so much that it becomes obsolete. By then the next version of the book will be out. I highly recommend this book if youâre looking for an easier to understand instructions on the entire AWS ecosystem.
Ira Laefsky –
Like All of Manning’s Publications Excellent, Practical & Comprehensive
It is not for disappointment that I am a paid purchaser of many of Manning’s publications in their preview MEAP form and in hard copy of the eventual book. I am a happy purchaser of a half dozen of their Deep Learning and Python books having subscribed to MEAP in both ebook and pbook editions. Like others in this series this is a comprehensive, well organized and conceptual coverage of the important topic of making best use of AWS resources and understanding both the configuration and relative benefits of this extensive collection of resources.
Yuri Stsepaniuk –
Good job!
Extremely helpful book and extremely responsive authors, respond me within 15 mins on manning site in private messages. I was able to complete all chapters with non free aws account at 1$. All chapters are explained with costs in mind, which was the most important part for me –> what will be my bill, if I run this? etc etc. Each chapter has cleanup box at the end, which helps you to stop pay more.
brnagn7 –
Terrible Book
This book is a collection of screenshots and arrows. Very very confusing. Aweful layout. Massive struggle just to flick through the thing. Hideous hopeless horrendous horrible book.
Just Some Guy –
This is a great book. It’s written in clear, approachable language that any full-stack developer should be able to understand. You’ll need to know the basics of Linux, networking, etc., but you really don’t need to know much about AWS as a starting point (but if you do, it’s not so basic as to be boring, either).AWS has far too many services to cover in a single book, but this one covers all the core essentials you’re likely to need when building or migrating any web app to the cloud, broken down into 3 primary categories: Compute (EC2, Lambda), Networking (VPC, subnets, security groups, etc.), and Storage (S3, EBS, DynamoDB, etc.). No service is explained in exhaustive detail, but each is introduced and explained in the context of practical real-world use cases that really help them all make sense quickly. The authors also offer a long list of tips/tricks/best practices for each service along the way.I expected all of the above, and am happy with what this book delivers. What *surprised* me was the additional depth the authors share around both architecture and implementations along the way. Most of their content not only explains how to use the building blocks AWS provides, but to do so grounded in strong architectural best practices (building for high availability, resilience, scalability, idempotence, etc.). They manage to weave this in throughout the book without being so advanced as to confuse someone new to such ideas, nor so basic that pros will fall asleep mid-chapter.As for implementation, they share ample sample code throughout the book to ground everything covered in solid tactical context (including AWS CLI commands, Linux/Bash snippets, lots of JSON/CloudFormation, and even a bit of Windows stuff sprinkled in.). I was most appreciative of the Node sample app that’s included in the later chapters (a simple but viable real-world app you can deploy and try on your own).My only complaints are that this book is already dated in a few ways (printed in 2019, I write this mid-2022):1) CloudFormation is used throughout – does anyone use that any more? Terraform/Ansible/etc. would have been much nicer, but no such luck. At least the CF config code in the book is detailed and extensive, so you can read it to pull out all the actual _values_ you’ll need to implement the example IaC configs, then port them into Terraform (or whatever else you may use).2) Elastic Beanstalk makes a few appearances, which again is essentially a dead service these days (amirite?). No mention of Kubernetes, nor even Docker Swarm – oh well. You can probably just skip the beanstalk sections (I did).3) No reference whatsoever to anything AWS offers around mobile or video is a pretty big gap – but hey, you have to walk before you can fly. Read this book to get your foundation in place, then find AWS docs to supplement those details and build your new mobile streaming empire.Final word: This is a great book, offering a really strong foundation for any developer or DevOps/Solutions Architect pro looking to get started on AWS. It’s simple enough to be readable by any mid-level dev who understands Linux and networking – and even cloud ninjas might learn a new trick or two.
Juan –
Excellent Resource for AWS Cloud Architects
Armando –
Excelente libro de consulta para conocer AWS, provee buenos ejemplos y es sencillo de seguir y comprender. Si recién comienzas a conocer los servicios de aws o pretendes la certificación âPractricionerâ lo recomiendo ampliamente.
Vitaliy K. –
A bit expensive but covers many topics
Abhijeet –
Good book for beginners.