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    Step by Step: Fault-tolerant, Scalable, Secure AWS Web Stack
    Step by Step: Fault-tolerant, Scalable, Secure AWS Web Stack
    Step by Step: Fault-tolerant, Scalable, Secure AWS Web Stack
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    Step by Step: Fault-tolerant, Scalable, Secure AWS Web Stack

    By Savitra Sirohi

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    ABOUT THE BOOK

    A look at core Amazon Web Services (AWS) services with an emphasis on implementation and skill development. You will start with a simple web application on a single Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instance and improve the stack step by step by adding high availability, fault-tolerance, scalability, security and ease of deployment. The book has 8 chapters and a capstone project, code, and commands required for the project are included. 

    You will learn about these AWS services - Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2), Elastic Block Store (EBS), Relational Database Service (RDS), Simple Storage Service (S3), DynamoDB, Identity and Access Management (IAM), ElastiCache, CloudFront, Elastic Beanstalk and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). 

    You will use these important aspects of AWS:
    - Infrastructure: AWS Regions and Availability Zones.
    - EC2: Amazon Machine Images, EBS Snapshots, Application Load Balancers, Sticky Sessions, Auto-Scaling Groups.
    - RDS: Read Replicas, Multi-AZ Deployment.
    - Network: Public and Private Subnets, VPC Service Endpoints, Security Groups, NAT Gateways.
    - Security: IAM Roles, IAM policies, S3 bucket policies, S3 Access Control Lists, CloudFront signed URLs.
    - App development: AWS SDK.

    You will implement these AWS best practices:
    - Configure separate root and data EBS volumes. 
    - Create snapshots of EBS data volumes.
    - Create Amazon Machine Images of your app servers.
    - Use multiple instances and multiple zones.
    - Centralize sessions, content and the database.
    - Use auto-scaling groups for your app servers.
    - Off-load database requests to read replicas or to in-memory databases.
    - Use a Content Distribution Network to deliver content to users around the world.
    - Use signed URLs when delivering private content.
    - Configure security using the principle of least privileges.
    - Use an automation platform for frequent deployments. 

    You will understand AWS best practices for typical web app functions:
    - Session management.
    - Content delivery.
    - Content security.
    - Databases.

    AUDIENCE

    Developers, system administrators or a solutions architects who need to use AWS in their projects, or need to develop, and perhaps showcase, strong skills in this technology. Those preparing for AWS certification exams, and like to learn by doing.

    REQUIRED SKILLS

    You will use, modify, and configure a Linux (Ubuntu), Apache, MySQL and PHP app throughout this project. This book assumes you have some familiarity with Linux, SSH, vi (or similar) editors and with Git. PHP skills are NOT required.

    FROM THE AUTHOR

    I am AWS certified (Solutions Architect - Associate level) and have over 20 years of experience in IT. I adopted AWS early, back in 2008, when setting up an AWS based SaaS business. As part of this project, I coached, for several years, a team of system admins and developers on this technology. For the last couple of years, I have been teaching a webinar based AWS solutions architecture course. This book has evolved from this long experience using and teaching AWS. I hope you will find it useful.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSavitra Sirohi
    Release dateJul 19, 2018
    ISBN9781386826033
    Step by Step: Fault-tolerant, Scalable, Secure AWS Web Stack

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      Step by Step - Savitra Sirohi

      From the Author

      Iam AWS certified (Solutions Architect - Associate level) and have over 20 years of experience in IT. I adopted AWS early, back in 2008, when setting up an AWS based SaaS business. As part of this project, I coached, for several years, a team of system admins and developers on this technology. For the last couple of years, I have been teaching a webinar based AWS solutions architecture course. This book has evolved from this long experience using and teaching AWS. I hope you will find it useful.

      Audience

      In this book, you will use some of the most important AWS services, and build, step by step, a fault-tolerant, scalable, secure and easy to deploy architecture.

      With its focus on implementation and skill development, this book is a good fit for you, if you are a developer, system administrator or a solutions architect who needs to use AWS in projects, or if you need to develop, and perhaps showcase, strong skills in this technology.

      As you build the stack, you will also develop a deeper understanding of key AWS services, and of important architectural and security principles, and best practices. For this reason, this book is also good preparation for AWS certification exams, especially at the associate level.

      Required Skills

      You will configure , deploy, and use a Linux (Ubuntu), Apache, MySQL and PHP app throughout this project. This book assumes you have some familiarity with Linux, SSH, vi (or similar) editors and with Git.

      Introduction

      In this book, you will learn how to build a fault-tolerant, scalable, and secure stack on AWS. You will also incorporate ease of deployment. Fault tolerance is avoiding downtime, and avoiding data loss when something fails. Scalability is ensuring the same performance at higher loads by adding more capacity. At the same time, it is important to reduce capacity when load decreases, this to help lower costs. Security is protecting content and data from unauthorized access. Ease of deployment is the ability to easily and frequently update applications.

      You will implement a complete architecture using AWS compute services - Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) and Elastic Beanstalk, AWS storage services - Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Simple Storage Service (S3), AWS database services - Relational Database Service (RDS), ElastiCache and DynamoDB, AWS network services - Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and CloudFront and Identity and Access Management (IAM), a security service.

      You will need an app to build and verify the architecture and this book includes a simple PHP app. The app is typical, it manages sessions, has a database, and serves private content in the form of images, and as you work through the material, the app will help you understand architectural best practices for these typical app functions.

      The architecture you will build is complex, so you will build it in small steps. You will start by deploying the PHP app on a single EC2 instance and then step by step, you will add fault tolerance, scalability, content security, ease of deployment and network security. Each step is a chapter in the book, and you will be able to work on a chapter independently of others. You will develop strong AWS skills as you work through these steps. In the final chapter, you will put everything you have learned together, and build a complete stack. The stack will be a concrete achievement that you can showcase in your resume, and talk about in your job interviews.

      Before you implement a step, read the chapter’s discussion section to understand what you will do and why. For instance, you will understand how EC2 auto-scaling groups help with cost efficiency, not just with scalability. Or how Elastic Beanstalk makes it easier to deploy application updates frequently. So, you will not just develop skills as you work on these steps, you will also gain a deeper understanding of architectural concepts and best practices, and of AWS services. For this reason, this book is good preparation for the AWS certification exams.

      I hope you are

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