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Amazon Web Services in Action, Third Edition: An in-depth guide to AWS 3rd ed. Edition
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- Leverage globally distributed data centers to launch virtual machines with EC2
- Store and archive large volumes of data with EBS, S3, and EFS
- Persist and query data with highly available and scalable database systems with RDS and DynamoDB
- Enhance performance with caching data in-memory with ElastiCache and MemoryDB
- Use Infrastructure as Code to automate your cloud infrastructure
- Secure workloads running in the cloud with VPC and IAM
- Build fault-tolerant web applications with ALB and SQS
- Automate common sysadmin tasks with Lambda, CLI, and SDK
- Build cloud-native applications based on containers with AppRunner, ECS, Fargate
Thousands of developers have chosen Amazon Web Services in Action: An in-depth guide to AWS to help them succeed with the AWS cloud. Readers love this all-practical handbook for its complete introduction to computing, storage, and networking, along with best practices for all core AWS services. This revised third edition features new chapters on containerization, along with a variety of AWS innovations. You’ll also learn how automating your infrastructure with IAC is a game changer for your cloud deployment, delivering a massive boost to efficiency and quality.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the Technology
Amazon Web Services, the leading cloud computing platform, offers customers APIs for on-demand access to computing services. Rich in examples and best practices of how to use AWS, this Manning bestseller is now released in its third, revised, and improved edition.
About the Book
In Amazon Web Services in Action, Third Edition: An in-depth guide to AWS, the Wittig brothers give you a comprehensive, practical introduction to deploying and managing applications on the AWS cloud platform. With a sharp focus on the most important AWS tasks and services, they will save you hours of unproductive time. You’ll learn hands-on as you complete real-world projects like hosting a WordPress site, setting up a private cloud, and deploying an app on containers.
What’s Inside
- Leverage globally distributed data centers to launch virtual machines
- Enhance performance with caching data in-memory
- Secure workloads running in the cloud with VPC and IAM
- Build fault-tolerant web applications with ALB and SQS
About the Reader
Written for mid-level developers, DevOps or platform engineers, architects, and system administrators.
About the Author
Andreas Wittig and Michael Wittig are software engineers and consultants focused on AWS. Together, they migrated the first bank in Germany to AWS in 2013.
Table of Contents
PART 1 - GETTING STARTED
1 What is Amazon Web Services?
2 A simple example: WordPress in 15 minutes
PART 2 - BUILDING VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE CONSISTING OF COMPUTERS AND NETWORKING
3 Using virtual machines: EC2
4 Programming your infrastructure: The command line, SDKs, and CloudFormation
5 Securing your system: IAM, security groups, and VPC
6 Automating operational tasks with Lambda
PART 3 - STORING DATA IN THE CLOUD
7 Storing your objects: S3
8 Storing data on hard drives: EBS and instance store
9 Sharing data volumes between machines: EFS
10 Using a relational database service: RDS
11 Caching data in memory: Amazon ElastiCache and MemoryDB
12 Programming for the NoSQL database service: DynamoDB
PART 4 - ARCHITECTING ON AWS
13 Achieving high availability: Availability zones, autoscaling, and CloudWatch
14 Decoupling your infrastructure: Elastic Load Balancing and Simple Queue
Service
15 Automating deployment: CodeDeploy, CloudFormation, and Packer
16 Designing for fault tolerance
17 Scaling up and down: Autoscaling and CloudWatch
18 Building modern architectures for the cloud: ECS, Fargate, and App Runner
- ISBN-10163343916X
- ISBN-13978-1633439160
- Edition3rd ed.
- PublisherManning
- Publication date
2023
May 2
- Language
EN
English
- Dimensions
7.4 x 1.4 x 9.3
inches
- Length
552
Pages
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From the Back Cover
In Amazon Web Services in Action, Third Edition: An in-depth guide to AWS, the Wittig brothers give you a comprehensive, practical introduction to deploying and managing applications on the AWS cloud platform. With a sharp focus on the most important AWS tasks and services, they will save you hours of unproductive time. You will learn hands-on as you complete real-world projects like hosting a WordPress site, setting up a private cloud, and deploying an app on containers.
About the reader
Written for mid-level developers, DevOps or platform engineers, architects, and system administrators.
This revised third edition features new chapters on containerization, along with a variety of AWS innovations. You will also learn how automating your infrastructure with IAC is a game changer for your cloud deployment, delivering a massive boost to efficiency and quality. You will learn how to:
- Leverage globally distributed data centers to launch virtual machines
- Enhance performance with caching data in-memory
- Secure workloads running in the cloud with VPC and IAM
- Build fault-tolerant web applications with ALB and SQS
About the Author
Michael Wittig was part of the team who migrated the complete IT infrastructure of the first Bank in Germany to AWS. He has a strong algorithmic trading background using AWS to analyze Terabytes of historical financial data and for realtime analytics of financial data using a wide range of technologies and programming languages. Today he runs a business with a focus on consulting and developing of AWS and web technologies together with his brother, Andreas.
Product details
- Publisher : Manning; 3rd ed. edition (May 2, 2023)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 552 pages
- ISBN-10 : 163343916X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1633439160
- Item Weight : 2.21 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.38 x 1.4 x 9.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #136,659 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #15 in Web Services
- #16 in Mobile App Development & Programming
- #51 in Cloud Computing (Books)
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About the authors

Michael Wittig is author of Amazon Web Services in Action (Manning). He helps his clients to gain value from Amazon Web Services. As a software engineer he develops cloud-native real-time web and mobile applications. He migrated the complete IT infrastructure of the first bank in Germany to AWS. He has expertise in distributed system development and architecture, with experience in algorithmic trading and real-time analytics.

Cloud Specialist focusing on AWS and DevOps. Author of Amazon Web Services in Action. Software engineer, teacher and consultant. Migrated the complete IT infrastructure of the first Bank in Germany to AWS. Constantly creating new products and services to keep on learning.
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Manning sets the bar high, and this book does not disappoint. This is an excellent book for those new to Amazon Web Services as well as for those with experience. I was able to make progress quickly, and I highly recommend this book!







