Practical AWS Networking

Book excerpt: Your one step guide to learn all about AWS networking. Key Features Master your networking skills on Public Cloud Gain hands-on experience of using Amazon VPC, Elastic Load Balancing, Direct Connect and other AWS products Implement troubleshooting skills and best practices for security on AWS network Book Description Amazon Web Services (AWS) dominates the public cloud market by a huge margin and continues to be the first choice for many organizations. Networking has been an area of focus for all the leading cloud service providers. AWS has a suite of network-related products which help in performing network related task on AWS. This book initially covers the basics of networking in AWS. Then we use AWS VPC to create an isolated virtual cloud for performing network-related tasks. We then provide an overview of AWS Direct Connect after taking a deep dive into scalability and load balancing using the auto scaling feature, Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon Route S3. Toward the end of the book, we cover troubleshooting tips and security best practices for your network. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience of working with network tasks on AWS. What you will learn Overview of all networking services available in AWS Gain work with load balance applications across different regions Learn auto scale instances based on increases and decreases in traffic Deploy applications in a highly available and fault tolerant manner Configure Route 53 for a web application Troubleshooting tips and best practices Who this book is for This book is for cloud architects, cloud solution providers, or any stakeholders dealing with networking on AWS Cloud. A prior idea of Amazon Web Services will be an added advantage.