AWS SysOps Cookbook

Book excerpt: Become an AWS SysOps administrator and explore best practices to maintain a well-architected, resilient, and secure AWS environment Key FeaturesExplore AWS Cloud functionalities through a recipe-based approachGet to grips with a variety of techniques for automating your infrastructureDiscover industry-proven best practices for architecting reliable and efficient workloadsBook Description AWS is an on-demand remote computing service providing cloud infrastructure over the internet with storage, bandwidth, and customized support for APIs. This updated second edition will help you implement these services and efficiently administer your AWS environment. You will start with the AWS fundamentals and then understand how to manage multiple accounts before setting up consolidated billing. The book will assist you in setting up reliable and fast hosting for static websites, sharing data between running instances and backing up data for compliance. By understanding how to use compute service, you will also discover how to achieve quick and consistent instance provisioning. You’ll then learn to provision storage volumes and autoscale an app server. Next, you’ll explore serverless development with AWS Lambda, and gain insights into using networking and database services such as Amazon Neptune. The later chapters will focus on management tools like AWS CloudFormation, and how to secure your cloud resources and estimate costs for your infrastructure. Finally, you’ll use the AWS well-architected framework to conduct a technology baseline review self-assessment and identify critical areas for improvement in the management and operation of your cloud-based workloads. By the end of this book, you’ll have the skills to effectively administer your AWS environment. What you will learnSecure your account by creating IAM users and avoiding the use of the root loginSimplify the creation of a multi-account landing zone using AWS Control TowerMaster Amazon S3 for unlimited, cost-efficient storage of dataExplore a variety of compute resources on the AWS Cloud, such as EC2 and AWS LambdaConfigure secure networks using Amazon VPC, access control lists, and security groupsEstimate your monthly bill by using cost estimation toolsLearn to host a website with Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudFront, and S3Who this book is for If you are an administrator, DevOps engineer, or an IT professional interested in exploring administrative tasks on the AWS Cloud, then this book is for you. Familiarity with cloud computing platforms and some understanding of virtualization, networking, and other administration-related tasks is assumed.