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Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787125629

Length 600 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Tankariya

Parmar

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Table of Contents (29) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Dedication

Preface

1. AWS Certified Developer – Associate Certification FREE CHAPTER

2. Introduction to Cloud Computing and AWS

3. Identity and Access Management

4. Virtual Private Clouds

5. Getting Started with Elastic Compute Cloud

6. Handling Application Traffic with Elastic Load Balancing

7. Monitoring with CloudWatch

8. Simple Storage Service, Glacier, and CloudFront

9. Other AWS Storage Options

10. AWS Relational Database Services

11. AWS DynamoDB - A NoSQL Database Service

12. Amazon Simple Queue Service

13. Simple Notification Service

14. Simple Workflow Service

15. AWS CloudFormation

16. Elastic Beanstalk

17. Overview of AWS Lambda

18. Mock Tests

Index

Basic AWS concepts

AWS is a public cloud. It provides a range of IT services that can be used as building blocks for creating cutting-edge, robust, and scalable enterprise-grade solutions. It can be used to host everything from simple static websites to complex three-tier architectures, scientific applications to modern ERPs, online training to live broadcasting events (that is, sports events, political elections, and so on).

According to Gartner's Magic Quadrant, AWS is a leader in cloud IaaS (this term is explained further on in this chapter). AWS is way ahead of its competitors after it pioneered the cloud IaaS market in 2006:

Figure 2.2: Gartner's Magic Quadrant, rates various public cloud providers

Image source : https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-2G2O5FC&ct=150519

The Magic Quadrant (MQ) is a series of market research reports published by Gartner, the United States-based research and advisory firm. It aims to provide a qualitative analysis into a market, its direction, maturity...