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AWS Administration Cookbook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787127630
Length 394 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Udell Udell
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Rowan Udell has been working in development and operations for 15 years. His travels have seen him work in start-ups and enterprises in the finance, education, and web industries in both Australia and Canada. He currently works as a Technical Director at Versent, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, working with teams building cloud-native products on AWS. He specializes in serverless applications and architectures on AWS, and contributes actively in the AWS and serverless communities.
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Lucas Chan has been working in tech since 1995 in a variety of development, systems admin, and DevOps roles. He is currently a senior consultant and engineer at Versent and was a technical director at Stax. He's been running production workloads on AWS for over 10 years. He's also a member of the APAC AWS warriors program and holds all five of the available AWS certifications.
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Preface
1. AWS Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing AWS Accounts 3. Storage and Content Delivery 4. Using AWS Compute 5. Management Tools 6. Database Services 7. Networking 8. Security and Identity 9. Estimating Costs

Chapter 8. Security and Identity

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Federating with your AWS account
  • Creating SSL certificates
  • Active Directory as a service
  • Creating users
  • Creating instance roles
  • Cross-account user roles
  • Storing secrets
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Rowan Udell has been working in development and operations for 15 years. His travels have seen him work in start-ups and enterprises in the finance, education, and web industries in both Australia and Canada. He currently works as a Technical Director at Versent, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, working with teams building cloud-native products on AWS. He specializes in serverless applications and architectures on AWS, and contributes actively in the AWS and serverless communities.
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Lucas Chan has been working in tech since 1995 in a variety of development, systems admin, and DevOps roles. He is currently a senior consultant and engineer at Versent and was a technical director at Stax. He's been running production workloads on AWS for over 10 years. He's also a member of the APAC AWS warriors program and holds all five of the available AWS certifications.
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