AWS for System Administrators: Build, automate, and manage your infrastructure on the most popular cloud platform – AWS

AWS for System Administrators
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Section 1: AWS Services and Tools
Chapter 1: Setting Up the AWS Environment
    Technical requirements
    Setting up the environment
        Installing the AWS CLI
        Configuring command-line completion
        Configuring the AWS command line
        Understanding the AWS CLI command structure
    Introducing Python Boto3
        Installing Python Boto3
        Verifying the Boto3 setup
    Introducing CloudFormation
        Writing your first CloudFormation template
        Creating a CloudFormation stack using the AWS console
        Creating a CloudFormation stack using the AWS CLI
    Introducing Terraform 
        Installing Terraform
        Creating resources using Terraform
    Installing tools in an automated way
    Summary
Chapter 2: Protecting Your AWS Account Using IAM
    Technical requirements
    Creating IAM users and groups
        Introducing IAM users
        Introducing IAM groups
    Understanding IAM policies
        IAM policy structure
        Introducing ARN 
        IAM policy evaluation 
        Creating the IAM policy using the AWS CLI
    Creating IAM roles
        Advantages of using an IAM role
        Creating an IAM role using Terraform
    Introducing AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS)
        Advantages of AWS STS
        Use cases
        IAM cross-account access
    Real-time use case of launching a specific instance using CloudFormation
    Rotating IAM credentials using Boto3
        Prerequisites
        Creating a Boto3 script to rotate credentials
    Summary
Section 2: Building the Infrastructure
Chapter 3: Creating a Data Center in the Cloud Using VPC
    Technical requirements
    Setting up two VPCs
        Creating your first VPC using the AWS console
        Creating a second VPC using CloudFormation
    Introducing AWS Transit Gateway
        Creating your first transit gateway using the AWS console
        Creating a second transit gateway using Terraform
        Real-time use case to enable a VPC flow log
    Summary
Chapter 4: Scalable Compute Capacity in the Cloud via EC2
    Technical requirements
    Setting up EC2 instances
        Creating an EC2 instance using AWS CloudFormation
    Creating an AWS billing alarms
    Real-time use case to clean up an unused AMI
    Real-time use case to detach unused EBS volumes
    Real-time use case to shutdown instances on a daily basis
    Summary
Section 3: Adding Scalability and Elasticity to the Infrastructure
Chapter 5: Increasing an Application's Fault Tolerance with Elastic Load Balancing
    Technical requirements 
    Different load balancers offered by AWS
    Setting up the application load balancer
        Setting up the application load balancer
    Automating the application load balancer using Terraform
    Summary
Chapter 6: Increasing Application Performance Using AWS Auto Scaling
    Technical requirements
    Setting up Auto Scaling
        Creating a launch template
        Creating an AWS Auto Scaling group
        Verifying an Auto Scaling group
    Understanding Auto Scaling policies
    Scaling an application based on demand
    Testing the Auto Scaling group
    Creating an Auto Scaling group using Terraform
    Summary
Chapter 7: Creating a Relational Database in the Cloud using AWS Relational Database Service (RDS)
    Technical requirements
    The different database offerings in AWS RDS
    Setting up AWS RDS in high availability mode
    Setting up a MySQL read replica
    Automating AWS RDS MySQL creation using Terraform
    Summary
Section 4: The Monitoring, Metrics, and Backup Layers
Chapter 8: Monitoring AWS Services Using CloudWatch and SNS
    Technical requirements
    CloudWatch monitoring
    Monitoring custom metrics using CloudWatch
        Downloading and installing the CloudWatch agent
        Creating an IAM role used by CloudWatch agent
        Running the CloudWatch agent on your server
    Introduction to SNS
    Introduction to CloudWatch Events
    Automating alarm notification using email and a Slack channel
        Configuring Slack
        Configuring CloudWatch
        Creating a Lambda function
        Testing the integration
    Summary
Chapter 9: Centralizing Logs for Analysis
    Technical requirements 
    Why do we need log management?
    Setting up the CloudWatch agent
    Setting up AWS Elasticsearch and Kibana
    Summary
Chapter 10: Centralizing Cloud Backup Solution
    Technical requirements
    The v backup options offered by AWS
        Why do we back up data?
    Setting up the AWS DLM
    Backing up your data to S3 using the AWS CLI
    Transitioning S3 data to Glacier using a lifecycle policy
        Automating transitioning S3 data to Glacier using Terraform
    Summary
Chapter 11: AWS Disaster Recovery Solutions
    Technical requirements
    Discussing the various DR solutions offered by AWS
        Backup and restore
        Pilot light
        Warm standby in AWS
        Hot standby (with multi-site)
    Configuring a website to fail over to an S3 bucket
    Summary
Chapter 12: AWS Tips and Tricks
    Technical requirements
    Some common pitfalls – VPC limitations
    Which VPC subnets to choose while building a VPC
    Dedicated instance versus dedicated host – which should you choose?
    The power of the IAM permission boundary
    Custom CloudWatch metrics
    Tagging, tagging, and tagging – why is tagging  important?
    Protecting your EC2 instances and EBS volumes using termination protection
    How to reduce your AWS bill
    Choosing an AWS bucket name and how to create a random bucket name
    Automating AMI creation
        Creating an AMI using the AWS console
        Creating an AMI using the AWS CLI
        Automating AMI creation using Packer
    Summary
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