Master essential best practices for deploying and managing applications on Amazon Web Services. This revised bestseller is packed with techniques for building highly available and scalable architectures and automating deployment with Infrastructure as Code.Leverage globally distributed data centers to launch virtual machines with EC2Store and archive large volumes of data with EBS, S3, and EFSPersist and query data with highly available and scalable database systems with RDS and DynamoDBEnhance performance with caching data in-memory with ElastiCache and MemoryDBUse Infrastructure as Code to automate your cloud infrastructureSecure workloads running in the cloud with VPC and IAMBuild fault-tolerant web applications with ALB and SQSAutomate common sysadmin tasks with Lambda, CLI, and SDKBuild cloud-native applications based on containers with AppRunner, ECS, FargateThousands of developers have chosen Amazon Web Services in Action: An in-depth guide to AWS to help them succeed with the AWS cloud. Readers love this all-practical handbook for its complete introduction to computing, storage, and networking, along with best practices for all core AWS services. This revised third edition features new chapters on containerization, along with a variety of AWS innovations. You’ll also learn how automating your infrastructure with IAC is a game changer for your cloud deployment, delivering a massive boost to efficiency and quality.Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.About the TechnologyAmazon Web Services, the leading cloud computing platform, offers customers APIs for on-demand access to computing services. Rich in examples and best practices of how to use AWS, this Manning bestseller is now released in its third, revised, and improved edition.About the BookIn Amazon Web Services in Action, Third Edition: An in-depth guide to AWS, the Wittig brothers give you a comprehensive, practical introduction to deploying and managing applications on the AWS cloud platform. With a sharp focus on the most important AWS tasks and services, they will save you hours of unproductive time. You’ll learn hands-on as you complete real-world projects like hosting a WordPress site, setting up a private cloud, and deploying an app on containers.What’s InsideLeverage globally distributed data centers to launch virtual machinesEnhance performance with caching data in-memorySecure workloads running in the cloud with VPC and IAMBuild fault-tolerant web applications with ALB and SQSAbout the ReaderWritten for mid-level developers, DevOps or platform engineers, architects, and system administrators.About the AuthorAndreas Wittig and Michael Wittig are software engineers and DevOps consultants focused on AWS. Together, they migrated the first bank in Germany to AWS in 2013. Andreas and Michael share what they’ve learned about AWS at cloudonaut.io.Michael Wittig was part of the team who migrated the complete IT infrastructure of the first Bank in Germany to AWS. He has a strong algorithmic trading background using AWS to analyze Terabytes of historical financial data and for realtime analytics of financial data using a wide range of technologies and programming languages. Today he runs a business with a focus on consulting and developing of AWS and web technologies together with his brother, Andreas. Table of ContentsPART 1 - GETTING STARTED1 What is Amazon Web Services?2 A simple example: WordPress in 15 minutesPART 2 - BUILDING VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE CONSISTING OF COMPUTERS AND NETWORKING3 Using virtual machines: EC24 Programming your infrastructure: The command line, SDKs, and CloudFormation5 Securing your system: IAM, security groups, and VPC6 Automating operational tasks with LambdaPART 3 - STORING DATA IN THE CLOUD7 Storing your objects: S38 Storing data on hard drives: EBS and instance store9 Sharing data volumes between machines: EFS10 Using a relational database service: RDS11 Caching data in memory: Amazon ElastiCache and MemoryDB12 Programming for the NoSQL database service: DynamoDBPART 4 - ARCHITECTING ON AWS13 Achieving high availability: Availability zones, autoscaling, and CloudWatch14 Decoupling your infrastructure: Elastic Load Balancing and Simple Queue Service15 Automating deployment: CodeDeploy, CloudFormation, and Packer16 Designing for fault tolerance17 Scaling up and down: Autoscaling and CloudWatch18 Building modern architectures for the cloud: ECS, Fargate, and App Runner