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Designing AWS Environments

By : Mitesh Soni, Wayde Gilchrist

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By: Mitesh Soni, Wayde Gilchrist

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Overview of this book

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides trusted,cloud-based solutions to help you meet your business needs. Running your solutions in the AWS Cloud can help you get your applications up and running faster while providing the security to meet your compliance requirements. This book begins by familiarizing you with the key capabilities to architect and host applications, websites, and services on AWS. We explain the available options for AWS free tier with virtual instances and demonstrate how you can launch and connect them. Using practical examples, you’ll be able to design and deploy networking and hosting solutions for large deployments. Finally, the book focuses on security and important elements of scalability and high availability using AWS VPC, Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto scaling. By the end of this book, you will have handson experience of working with AWS instances,VPC, Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto scalingrelated tasks on Amazon Web Services.

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Installation and Setup

Opening an AWS account

The AWS Management Console

Summary

Launching an EC2 Instance

EC2 instance types

Launching the instance

EC2 storage options

Security groups

AMIs

Summary

Logging in to EC2 Instances

Key pairs

Logging in to Linux instances

Logging in to Windows instances

Summary

Networking on AWS

CIDR

Subnets and route tables

Summary

Creating a VPC

Getting started with VPCs

Creating a VPC demo

Connecting to a VPC

Securing your VPC

Highly available architectures

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Launching an EC2 Instance

In this chapter, we will see how to launch an EC2 instance using your own AWS account. We will discuss some of the choices you will have to make when you launch an instance, including choosing Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), an instance type and size, storage options, and configuring your security group.

The topics that we will cover are as follows: