Intro
Table of Contents
About the Author
About the Technical Reviewers
Chapter 1: Introduction to Cloud Computing
Defining Cloud Computing
Compute
Storage
Database
Networking
Fundamentals of the Cloud
Cloud Deployment Models
Private Clouds
Public Clouds
Hybrid Clouds
Traditional Data Centers
Cost
Capacity Planning
Staffing and Technical Skill Sets
Cloud Service Models
IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Key Cloud Concepts
Scalability
Elasticity
Agility

High Availability
Fault Tolerance
The Benefits of Cloud Computing
Trade Fixed Expenses for Variable Expenses
Benefit from Massive Economies of Scale
Stop Guessing at Capacity
Increased Speed and Agility
Don't Spend Money on Running and Maintaining Data Centers
Go Global in Minutes
The Different Cloud Providers
Summary
Chapter 2: Getting Started with AWS
AWS Accounts
AWS Free Tier
Securing an AWS Account
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Access Key and Secret Key
Password Policy
AWS Budgets and Alerts
Interacting with AWS

The AWS Management Console
AWS CLI
The Software Development Kit (SDK)
Using the AWS Console
Creating an Account Alias
AWS Region
Search AWS Services
Installing the AWS CLI
Using the AWS CLI
The AWS Global Infrastructure
AWS Regions and Availability Zones
What Are Availability Zones?
AWS Edge Locations
Summary
Chapter 3: AWS Identity and Access Management
What Is Identity and Access Management?
Identification
Authentication
Authorization
A Closer Look at AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM)
IAM Users, Groups, and Roles

Root User
IAM User
IAM Groups
IAM Role
Creating an IAM User, Group, and Role
Creating Users
Creating Groups
Logging In with the IAM User and Creating Roles
IAM Policies and Features
Types of Policies
Identity-Based Policy
Resource-Based Policy
Managed Policies
AWS Managed Policy
Customer-Managed Policies
Inline Policy
IAM Best Practices
User
Group
Permissions
Auditing
Password Policy
MFA
Rotate
Root User
AWS Core Services
Storage Services
Compute Services
Database Services
Networking Services
Summary

Chapter 4: AWS Storage Services
Overview of Amazon S3
S3 Buckets
Folders
S3 Objects
Maximum Object Size
Object Versioning
Storage Class
Permissions
Amazon S3 Demo
Availability, Durability, and Data Replication
Availability
Durability
Data Replication
Storage Classes
S3 Standard
Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering (S3 Intelligent-Tiering)
Standard IA (Infrequent Access)
One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA)
Glacier
Reduced Redundancy
Summary
Chapter 5: Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
What Is a VPC?