Host your web site in the cloud : amazon web services made easy

394 Pages·2010·20.41 MB·English

by  Jeffrey Barr

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Summary of Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
1. Welcome to Cloud Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2. Amazon Web Services Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3. Tooling Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
4. Storing Data with Amazon S3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
5. Web Hosting with Amazon EC2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
6. Building a Scalable Architecture with Amazon SQS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
7. EC2 Monitoring, Auto Scaling, and Elastic Load Balancing . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
8. Amazon SimpleDB: A Cloud Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
9. Amazon Relational Database Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
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10. Advanced AWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
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11. Putting It All Together: CloudList . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
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Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
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Host Your Web Site in the Cloud: Amazon Web Services Made Easy
by Jeff Barr
Copyright ©2010 Amazon Web Services, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company,
1200 12th Ave S., Suite 1200, Seattle, WA 98144, USA
Program Director: Lisa Lang Chief Technical Officer: Kevin Yank
Technical Editor: Andrew Tetlaw Indexer: Fred Brown
Technical Editor: Louis Simoneau Cover Design: Alex Walker
Editor: Kelly Steele
Expert Reviewer: Keith Hudgins
Printing History:
First Edition: September 2010
Notice of Rights
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However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied.
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About the Author
Jeff Barr is currently the Senior Evangelist at Amazon Web Services. In this role, Jeff speaks
to developers at conferences and user groups all over the world. Jeff joined Amazon.com in
2002 when he realized it was destined to become the next great developer platform, and that
he could help make it so. Before coming to Amazon, Jeff ran his own consulting practice,
and has also held management and development positions at Microsoft, eByz, KnowNow,
and Visix Software.
Jeff earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the American University in
Washington DC and also took some graduate classes at George Washington University in the
same city. Jeff resides in Sammamish, Washington with his wife and their five children. In
his spare time he enjoys the great outdoors, electronics, and welding.
About the Technical Editors
Andrew Tetlaw has been tinkering with web sites as a web developer since 1997. He’s ded-
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icated to making the world a better place through the technical editing of SitePoint books,
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kits, articles, and newsletters. Andrew’s also a busy father of five, enjoys receiving beer
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showbags, and often neglects his blog at http://tetlaw.id.au/.
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Louis Simoneau joined SitePoint in 2009, after traveling from his native Montréal to Calgary l
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and finally Melbourne. He now gets to spend his days learning about cool web technologies,
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an activity that had previously been relegated to nights and weekends. He enjoys hip-hop,
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spicy food, and all things geeky. His personal web site is http://louissimoneau.com/ and his

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As Chief Technical Officer for SitePoint, Kevin Yank keeps abreast of all that is new and W
exciting in web technology. Best known for his book, BuildYourOwnDatabaseDrivenWeb
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SiteUsingPHP&MySQL, he also co-authored SimplyJavaScriptwith Cameron Adams and
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EverythingYouKnowAboutCSSIsWrong!with Rachel Andrew. In addition, Kevin hosts
the SitePointPodcastand co-writes the SitePointTechTimes, a free email newsletter that !

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Kevin lives in Melbourne, Australia and enjoys speaking at conferences, as well as visiting
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friends and family in Canada. He’s also passionate about performing improvised comedy
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theater with Impro Melbourne (http://www.impromelbourne.com.au/) and flying light aircraft.
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Kevin’s personal blog is Yes,I’mCanadian(http://yesimcanadian.com/).

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About SitePoint
SitePoint specializes in publishing fun, practical, and easy-to-understand content for web
professionals. Visit http://www.sitepoint.com/ to access our blogs, books, newsletters, articles,
podcasts, and community forums.
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Table of Contents
Preface
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Who Should Read This Book? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
What’s Covered in This Book? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
The Book’s Web Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
The Code Archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
Updates and Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
The SitePoint Forums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv
The SitePoint Newsletters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv
The SitePoint Podcast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv
Your Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv D
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv o
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Conventions Used in This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
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Markup Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
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Tips, Notes, and Warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi
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Chapter 1 Welcome to Cloud Computing . . . . . . . . 1 f
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Avoiding a Success Disaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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Tell Me about Cloud Computing! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

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What’s a Cloud? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
The Programmable Data Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 o
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Characterizing the Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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Some Common Misconceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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Cloud Usage Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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Cloud Use Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 o
Hosting Static Web Sites and Complex Web Applications . . . . . . . . 14 o
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Software Development Life Cycle Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

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