The Practical, Foundational Technical Introduction to the World's #1 Cloud PlatformIncludes access to several hours of online training video: Mark Wilkins' expert training video library guides you through setting up core services and prepares you to deploy your own apps and resources.Learning Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the perfect foundational resource for all administrators, developers, project managers, and other IT professionals who want to plan and deploy AWS services and/or earn AWS certification.Top cloud trainer and evangelist Mark Wilkins teaches best practices that align with Amazon's Well-Architected Framework, introduces key concepts in the context of a running case study, carefully explains how core AWS services operate and integrate, and offers extensively tested tips for maximizing flexibility, security, and value. Companion online videos guide you step-by-step through setting AWS compute, storage, networking, scale, security, automation, and more.

Preface xix Chapter 1 Learning AWS 1 Chapter 2 Designing with AWS Global Services 29 Chapter 3 AWS Networking Services 77 Chapter 4 Compute Services: AWS EC2 Instances 147 Chapter 5 Planning for Scale and Resiliency 209 Chapter 6 Cloud Storage 255 Chapter 7 Security Services 315 Chapter 8 Automating AWS Infrastructure 373 Index 409