Preface

With the increasing interest in leveraging cloud infrastructure around the world, AWS Cloud from Amazon offers a cutting-edge platform to architecture, build, and deploy web-scale cloud applications. The variety of services and features available from AWS can reduce the overall infrastructure costs and accelerate the development process for both large enterprises and startups alike. In such an environment, it is imperative for developers to be able to set up the required infrastructure and effectively use various cloud services provided by AWS. In addition, they also should be able to effectively secure access to their production environments and deploy and monitor their applications.

Amazon EC2 Cookbook will serve as a handy reference to developers building production applications or cloud-based products. It will be a trusted desktop reference book that you reach out to first, or refer to often, to find solutions to specific AWS development-related requirements and issues. If you have a specific task to be completed, then we expect you to jump straight to the appropriate recipe in the book. By working through the steps in a specific recipe, you can quickly accomplish the typical tasks and issues related to the infrastructure, development, and deployment of an enterprise-grade AWS Cloud application.