Preface

Amazon Web Services has been the go-to cloud for customers and enterprises for a long time now. The cloud provider has evolved from just an Infrastructure as a Service provider to everything and anything as a service that helps in the development of applications, game development, IoT, big data analysis, customer engagement services, AR-VR, and much more! However, with so many services and products coming up each year, it tends to get difficult for beginners to know where and how exactly to start using these services.

This book is a one-stop shop where you can find all there is to getting started with AWS services, which includes EC2 Systems Manager, Elastic Beanstalk, EFS, CloudTrail, EMR, IoT, and a whole lot more! If you are a sysadmin or an architect or someone who just wants to learn and explore various aspects of administering AWS services, then this book is the right choice for you! Each chapter of this book is designed to help you understand the individual services' concepts and gain hands-on experience by practicing simple and easy-to-follow steps. The book also highlights some key best practices and recommendations that you ought to keep in mind when working with AWS.