AWS System Administration
Best Practices for Sysadmins in the Amazon Cloud
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With platforms designed for rapid adaptation and failure recovery such as Amazon Web Services, cloud computing is more like programming than traditional system administration. Tools for automatic scaling and instance replacement allow even small DevOps teams to manage massively scalable application infrastructures--if team members drop their old views of development and operations and start mastering automation.
This comprehensive guide shows developers and system administrators how to configure and manage AWS services including EC2, CloudFormation, Elastic Load Balancing, S3, and Route 53. Sysadms will learn will learn to automate their favorite tools and processes; developers will pick up enough ops knowledge to build a robust and resilient AWS application infrastructure.
- Launch instances with EC2 or CloudFormation
- Securely deploy and manage your applications with AWS tools
- Learn to automate AWS configuration management with Python and Puppet
- Deploy applications with Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing
- Explore approaches for deploying application and infrastructure updates
- Save time on development and operations with reusable components
- Learn strategies for managing log files in AWS environments
- Configure a cloud-aware DNS service with Route 53
- Use AWS CloudWatch to monitor your infrastructure and applications
Mike Ryan
A Boston native, Mike Ryan has worked as a teacher, reporter, communications specialist, and freelance writer. He holds a bachelor's degree in history from Boston State College and a master's degree in journalism from Boston University. His byline has appeared in newspapers and magazines. He has written ten novels and suffers from a serious addiction to bookstores. He lives with his family southwest of Fenway Park.
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Federico Lucifredi
Federico Lucifredi was the lead Product Manager for Ubuntu Server, Amazon Web Services' most popular operating system. While at Canonical, Federico led the Certified Public Cloud program, ensuring the seamless integration of Ubuntu into AWS and other public clouds. He is currently the Ceph Product Management Director at Red Hat, and can be reached on Twitter as @0xF2.
Federico is a graduate of Boston College and Harvard University. He is a frequent speaker at user group and conference events.
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