Mastering AWS Development

Develop and migrate your enterprise application to the Amazon Web Services platform

About This Book

• Identify and recognize cloud architecture features to design highly available, cost efficient, fault tolerant, and scalable distributed systems
• Code and implement a cloud solution with the help of appropriate techniques and methods such as Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Elastic Beanstalk, and so on
• A hands-on, example-driven guide that helps you leverage the vast powers of the AWS infrastructure

Who This Book Is For

This book is for web and Cloud computing developers with knowledge of databases, basic virtualization, and Cloud computing. Having prior understanding of architecting on AWS is recommended.

In Detail

This book is a practical guide to developing, administering, and managing applications and infrastructures with AWS. With this, you’ll be able to create, design, and manage an entire application life cycle on AWS by using the AWS SDKs, APIs, and the AWS Management Console.

You’ll start with the basics of the AWS development platform and look into creating stable and scalable infrastructures using EC2, EBS, and Elastic Load Balancers. You’ll then deep-dive into designing and developing your own web app and learn about the alarm mechanism, disaster recovery plan, and connecting AWS services through REST-based APIs. Following this, you’ll get to grips with CloudFormation, auto scaling, bootstrap AWS EC2 instances, automation and deployment with Chef, and develop your knowledge of big data and Apache Hadoop on AWS Cloud.

At the end, you’ll have learned about AWS billing, cost-control architecture designs, AWS Security features and troubleshooting methods, and developed AWS-centric applications based on an underlying AWS infrastructure.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Architecting in the Cloud
Chapter 2. Elastic and Fault-tolerant Infrastructure
Chapter 3. Storage Lifecycle Management
Chapter 4. Web Application and Batch Processing Architecture
Chapter 5. High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and Amazon VPC
Chapter 6. Tools for AWS and Setup Guidelines
Chapter 7. Interacting with AWS Using API
Chapter 8. Amazon Beanstalk, CloudTrail, and Data Warehouse Services
Chapter 9. Bootstrapping and Auto-configuration
Chapter 10. AWS Billing and Amazon CDN Service
Chapter 11. Analyzing Big Data with AWS
Chapter 12. Miscellaneous Features, AWS Security, and Troubleshooting
Chapter 13. Building Applications and AWS Best Practices