What this book covers

Chapter 1, AWS Fundamentals, is an overview of Infrastructure as Code, CloudFormation, and the AWS CLI tools.

Chapter 2, Managing AWS Accounts, covers everything you need to know to manage your accounts and get started with AWS organizations.

Chapter 3, Storage and Content Delivery, shows you how to back up your data and serve file objects to your users.

Chapter 4, Using AWS Compute, dives deep into how to run VMs (EC2 instances) on AWS, how to auto scale them, and how to create and manage load balancers.

Chapter 5, Management Tools, provides an overview of how to audit your account and monitor your infrastructure.

Chapter 6, Database Services, shows you how to create, manage, and scale databases on the AWS platform.

Chapter 7, Networking, introduces private networks, routing, and DNS.

Chapter 8, Security and Identity, offers advice and practical solutions for managing identities and role-based access.

Chapter 9, Estimating Costs, provides an overview of how to estimate your spend on the AWS platform as well as how to reduce your costs by purchasing reserved instance capacity.