Amazon EC2 Cookbook

Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 3
Credits......Page 4
About the Authors......Page 5
About the Reviewer......Page 6
www.PacktPub.com......Page 7
Table of Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Chapter 1: Selecting and Configuring Amazon EC2 Instances......Page 16
Choosing the right AWS EC2 instance types......Page 17
Preparing AWS CLI tools......Page 21
Launching EC2 instances using EC2-Classic and EC2-VPC......Page 24
Allocating Elastic IP addresses......Page 27
Creating an instance with multiple NIC cards and a static private IP address......Page 28
Selecting the right storage for your EC2 instance......Page 31
Creating tags for consistency......Page 33
Configuring security groups......Page 34
Creating an EC2 key pair......Page 38
Grouping EC2 instances using placement groups......Page 39
Configuring Elastic Load Balancing......Page 41
Architecting for high availability......Page 44
Creating instances for AWS Marketplace......Page 49
Introduction......Page 52
Creating and configuring VPC......Page 53
Configuring VPC DHCP options......Page 62
Configuring networking connections between two VPCs (VPC peering)......Page 63
Connecting on-premise network to VPC using VPN......Page 64
Introduction......Page 68
Creating CloudFormation templates......Page 69
Creating CloudFormation templates from existing AWS resources......Page 76
Deploying applications on EC2 instances......Page 77
Updating a stack......Page 83
Introduction......Page 86
Creating IAM users......Page 87
Creating IAM groups and assigning group-level permissions......Page 89
Creating IAM roles......Page 91
Connecting on-premise AD to AWS IAM......Page 94
Configuring AWS multifactor authentication......Page 101
Introduction......Page 104
Collecting EC2 metrics using AWS CloudWatch......Page 105
Collecting custom metrics from EC2 instances......Page 107
Monitoring costs using CloudWatch......Page 112
Sending an e-mail based on a CloudWatch alarm......Page 115
Using CloudWatch Logs......Page 117
Introduction......Page 122
Using Amazon SimpleDB services from a Java program......Page 123
Using Amazon DynamoDB......Page 128
Using Amazon ElastiCache......Page 135
Using Amazon RDS......Page 140
Introduction......Page 144
Configuring Route 53......Page 145
Accessing AWS S3 from applications......Page 150
Accessing AWS SES from applications......Page 155
Accessing AWS SNS from applications......Page 158
Accessing AWS SQS from applications......Page 163
Introduction......Page 170
Using Docker containers for AWS deployments......Page 171
Using Chef for AWS deployments......Page 174
Using Puppet for AWS deployments......Page 180
Index......Page 186