AWS For Admins For Dummies

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by  John Paul Mueller

AWS® For
Admins

AWS® For
Admins
by John Paul Mueller
AWS® For Admins For Dummies®
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2016954413
ISBN 978-1-119-31248-2; ISBN 978-1-119-31250-5 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-119-31249-9 (ebk)
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Contents at a Glance
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Part 1: Getting Started with AWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
CHAPTER 1: Starting Your AWS Adventure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
CHAPTER 2: Obtaining Free Amazon Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
CHAPTER 3: Determining Which Services to Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Part 2: Configuring a Virtual Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
CHAPTER 4: Creating a Virtual Server Using EC2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
CHAPTER 5: Managing Web Apps Using Elastic Beanstalk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
CHAPTER 6: Responding to Events with Lambda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Part 3: Working with Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
CHAPTER 7: Working with Cloud Storage Using S3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
CHAPTER 8: Managing Files Using the Elastic File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
CHAPTER 9: Archiving Data Using Glacier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Part 4: Performing Basic Database Management . . . . . . . . . .217
CHAPTER 10: Getting Basic DBMS Using RDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 .19
CHAPTER 11: Moving Data Using Database Migration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
CHAPTER 12: Gaining NoSQL Access Using DynamoDB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Part 5: Creating a User-Friendly Cloud Environment . . . . . . 295
CHAPTER 13: Isolating Cloud Resources Using Virtual Private Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
CHAPTER 14: Using the Infrastructure Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
CHAPTER 15: Supporting Users with Business Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Part 6: The Part of Tens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
CHAPTER 16: Ten Ways to Deploy AWS Quickly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
CHAPTER 17: Ten Must-Have AWS Software Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
About This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Foolish Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Icons Used in This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Beyond the Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Where to Go from Here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
PART 1: GETTING STARTED WITH AWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
CHAPTER 1: Starting Your AWS Adventure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Defining the AWS Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Understanding service-driven application architectures . . . . . . . . . 11
Understanding process- and function-driven workflows . . . . . . . . 12
Discovering IaaS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Defining IaaS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Comparing IaaS to SaaS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Comparing IaaS to PaaS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Determining Why You Should Use AWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Comparing AWS to other cloud services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Defining target areas where AWS works best . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Understanding the AWS Certifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Gaining an overview of the certifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Locating certification resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Getting a Well-Rounded Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
CHAPTER 2: Obtaining Free Amazon Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Discovering the Limits of Free Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Expiring services versus nonexpiring services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Considering the usage limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Considering the Hardware Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Hosting the services in the cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Hosting the services locally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Considering the Network Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Designing for connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Balancing cloud and internal needs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Specifying a subnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Getting Signed Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Performing a Few Simple Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
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CHAPTER 3: Determining Which Services to Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Getting a Quick Overview of Free-Tier Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Understanding the free services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Working with the online labs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Choosing a free services path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Considering the eventual need for paid services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Choosing the Services You Need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Considering AWS Security Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Understanding the Amazon view of security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60
Getting the expert view of security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Discovering the reality of Amazon security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Employing AWS security best practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
PART 2: CONFIGURING A VIRTUAL SERVER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
CHAPTER 4: Creating a Virtual Server Using EC2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Getting to Know the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Working with the Identity and Access Management (IAM) Console . . .69
Configuring root access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Defining permissions and policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Creating customer-managed policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Creating groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Including inline policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Adding users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
Attaching and detaching policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Working with Elastic Block Store (EBS) Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Knowing the EBS volume types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Creating an EBS volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Discovering Images and Instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Generating security keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Creating an instance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Connecting to the instance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
CHAPTER 5: Managing Web Apps Using Elastic Beanstalk . . . . . . 103
Considering Elastic Beanstalk (EB) Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Deploying an EB Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Creating the application entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Testing the application deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112
Setting application security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Configuring the application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Monitoring the application environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
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