Mastering Amazon EC2 - by Badri Kesavan (Paperback)

About the Book

From mastering the fundamentals to exploring advanced concepts, this book helps you build resilient apps, maximize app performance and automate your infrastructure provisioning capabilities to tackle modern cloud computing challenges.

Book Synopsis

Master Amazon EC2 with this comprehensive guide to unleashing the full potential of cloud computing, optimizing performance, and revolutionizing your business processes

Key Features

- Gain an in-depth understanding of EC2 core components, connectivity, networking, and security best practices

- Build resilient applications with load balancing, autoscaling and diverse storage options

- Learn advanced concepts and use cases for serverless, containers, HPC, and hybrid/multi cloud architecture

- Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

This comprehensive guide demystifies the complex landscape of Amazon EC2, from fundamentals to advanced concepts. You'll begin by understanding EC2 core components, creating and managing AMIs, selecting the right instance type and size, establishing networking and connectivity, and implementing security best practices. Next, you'll start building resilient apps on EC2, load balancing, auto scaling, storage options, performance optimization, monitoring, logging, and auditing. You'll also explore advanced concepts like containers, serverless, hybrid/multi-cloud architectures, high performance computing, big data, and disaster recovery strategies. By the end, you'll be equipped with the knowledge and confidence to harness the full potential of Amazon EC2.

What you will learn

- Discover how to create, manage, and select the right EC2 AMIs

- Explore load balancing and auto scaling with Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs)

- Study EC2 storage options and performance optimization

- Master monitoring and maintenance with Amazon Web Services (AWS) tools

- Understand containerization, serverless computing, and EC2 automation

- Get up to speed with migration, modernization, and compliance in EC2

Who this book is for

This Amazon book is for IT professionals, DevOps engineers, cloud architects and developers looking to delve into Amazon EC2 and cloud computing. No prior AWS experience is required as the book takes you through the fundamentals, gradually advancing toward more complex topics.

Table of Contents

- Introduction to Amazon EC2 and Its Benefits

- Understanding Core Components of Amazon EC2

- Creating and Managing Amazon EC2 Machine Images (AMI)

- Choosing the Right Amazon EC2 Instance Type and Size

- Networking and Connectivity in Amazon EC2

- Implementing Security Best Practices in Amazon EC2

- Load Balancing and Auto Scaling with Elastic Load Balancer and Auto Scaling Groups

- Understanding and Optimizing Amazon EC2 Storage Options

- Optimizing Performance with Amazon EC2 Placement Groups and Pricing Model

- Monitoring, Logging, and Maintenance with Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, and Backup Strategies

- Automating Amazon EC2 - AWS CloudFormation and Infrastructure as Code

- Containerization and Serverless Computing in Amazon EC2

- Leveraging AWS Services for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Architectures

- Optimizing Amazon EC2 for High-Performance Computing, Big Data, and Disaster Recovery Strategies

- Migrating, Modernizing, and Ensuring Compliance in Amazon EC2 Environments