AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide

326 Pages·2016·7.7 MB·English

by  Yohan Wadia

AWS Administration – The
Definitive Guide
Learn to design, build, and manage your infrastructure
on the most popular of all the Cloud platforms—Amazon
Web Services
Yohan Wadia
professional expertise distilled
P U B L I S H I N G
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
AWS Administration – The Definitive Guide
Copyright © 2016 Packt Publishing
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval
system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written
permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in
critical articles or reviews.
Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy
of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book
is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author nor Packt
Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages
caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book.
Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the
companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals.
However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information.
First published: February 2016
Production reference: 1080216
Published by Packt Publishing Ltd.
Livery Place
35 Livery Street
Birmingham B3 2PB, UK.
ISBN 978-1-78217-375-5
www.packtpub.com
Credits
Author Project Coordinator
Yohan Wadia Bijal Patel
Reviewer Proofreader
Paul Deng Safis Editing
Commissioning Editor Indexer
Kunal Parikh Monica Ajmera Mehta
Acquisition Editor Production Coordinator
Rahul Nair Nilesh Mohite
Content Development Editor Cover Work
Anish Dhurat Nilesh Mohite
Technical Editor
Pranjali Mistry
Copy Editor
Charlotte Carneiro
About the Author
Yohan Wadia is a client-focused virtualization and cloud expert with 6 years of
experience in the IT industry.
He has been involved in conceptualizing, designing, and implementing large-scale
solutions for a variety of enterprise customers based on VMware vCloud, Amazon
Web Services, and Eucalyptus Private Cloud.
His community-focused involvement also enables him to share his passion for
virtualization and cloud technologies with peers through social media engagements,
public speaking at industry events, and through his personal blog—yoyoclouds.com
He is currently working with an IT services and consultancy company as a Cloud
Solutions Lead and is involved in designing and building enterprise-level cloud
solutions for internal as well as external customers. He is also a VMware Certified
Professional and a vExpert (2012 and 2013).
I wish to dedicate this book to both my loving parents, Ma and Paa.
Thank you for all your love, support, encouragement, and patience. I
would also like to thank the entire Packt Publishing team, especially
Ruchita Bhansali, Athira Laji, and Gaurav Sharma, for their excellent
guidance and support.
And finally, a special thanks to one of my favorite bunch of people:
the amazing team of developers, support staff, and engineers who
work at AWS for such an "AWSome" cloud platform!
Not all those who wander are lost.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
About the Reviewer
Paul Deng is a senior software engineer with over 8 years of experience in
end-to-end IoT app design and development, including embedded devices,
large-scale machine learning, cloud, and web apps.
Paul holds software algorithm patents and was a finalist of Shell Australian
Innovation Challenge 2011. He has authored several publications on IoT and cloud.
He lives in Melbourne, Australia, with his wife Cindy and son Leon. Visit his
website at http://dengpeng.de to see what he is currently exploring and to learn
more about him.
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
For support files and downloads related to your book, please visit www.PacktPub.com.
Did you know that Packt offers eBook versions of every book published, with PDF and ePub
files available? You can upgrade to the eBook version at www.PacktPub.com and as a print
book customer, you are entitled to a discount on the eBook copy. Get in touch with us at
[email protected] for more details.
At www.PacktPub.com, you can also read a collection of free technical articles, sign up for a
range of free newsletters and receive exclusive discounts and offers on Packt books and eBooks.
TM
https://www2.packtpub.com/books/subscription/packtlib
Do you need instant solutions to your IT questions? PacktLib is Packt's online digital book
library. Here, you can search, access, and read Packt's entire library of books.
Why subscribe?
• Fully searchable across every book published by Packt
• Copy and paste, print, and bookmark content
• On demand and accessible via a web browser
Free access for Packt account holders
If you have an account with Packt at www.PacktPub.com, you can use this to access PacktLib
today and view 9 entirely free books. Simply use your login credentials for immediate access.
Instant updates on new Packt books
Get notified! Find out when new books are published by following @PacktEnterprise on
Twitter or the Packt Enterprise Facebook page.
Table of Contents
Preface vii
Chapter 1: Introducing Amazon Web Services 1
What is cloud computing? 2
Cloud computing features and benefits 3
Cloud computing use cases 3
Introducing Amazon Web Services 4
AWS architecture and components 5
Regions and availability zones 5
AWS platform overview 7
Getting started with AWS 11
Introducing the AWS Management Console 15
Getting started with AWS CLI 18
Plan of attack! 20
Summary 22
Chapter 2: Security and Access Management 23
Security and clouds 23
Is AWS really secure 24
Shared responsibility model 24
Identity and Access Management 25
Business use case scenario 27
Getting started with the IAM Console 27
Creating users and groups 30
Understanding permissions and policies 35
Creating and assigning policies 39
Managing access and security using the AWS CLI 41
Planning your next steps 46
Recommendations and best practices 48
Summary 49
[ i ]
Table of Contents
Chapter 3: Images and Instances 51
Introducing EC2! 51
EC2 use cases 52
Introducing images and instances 53
Understanding images 53
Amazon Linux AMI 56
Understanding instances 57
EC2 instance pricing options 58
On-demand instances 58
Reserved instances 59
Spot instances 60
Working with instances 60
Stage 1 – choose AMI 62
Stage 2 – choose an instance type 63
Stage 3 – configure instance details 64
Stage 4 – add storage 65
Stage 5 – tag instances 66
Stage 6 – configure security groups 67
Stage 7 – review instance launch 68
Connecting to your instance 69
Configuring your instances 75
Launching instances using the AWS CLI 77
Stage 1 – create a key pair 77
Stage 2 – create a security group 78
Stage 3 – add rules to your security group 79
Stage 4 – launch the instance 79
Cleaning up! 80
Planning your next steps 81
Recommendations and best practices 82
Summary 83
Chapter 4: Security, Storage, Networking, and Lots More! 85
An overview of security groups 85
Understanding EC2 networking 89
Determining your instances IP addresses 92
Working with Elastic IP addresses 93
Create an Elastic IP address 95
Allocating Elastic IP addresses 95
Disassociating and releasing an Elastic IP address 97
Understanding EBS volumes 98
EBS volume types 99
Getting started with EBS Volumes 99
Creating EBS volumes 100
Attaching EBS volumes 102
Accessing volumes from an instance 103
[ ii ]
Table of Contents
Detaching EBS volumes 104
Managing EBS volumes using the AWS CLI 105
Backing up volumes using EBS snapshots 107
Planning your next steps 112
Recommendations and best practices 113
Summary 114
Chapter 5: Building Your Own Private Clouds Using
Amazon VPC 115
An overview of Amazon VPC 115
VPC concepts and terminologies 117
Subnets 117
Security groups and network ACLs 119
Routing tables 120
VPC endpoints 120
Internet Gateways 122
NAT instances 123
DNS and DHCP Option Sets 124
VPC limits and costs 125
Working with VPCs 126
VPC deployment scenarios 126
Getting started with the VPC wizard 127
Viewing VPCs 133
Listing out subnets 135
Working with route tables 136
Listing Internet Gateways 137
Working with security groups and Network ACLs 138
Launching instances in your VPC 142
Creating the web servers 142
Creating the database servers 144
Planning next steps 144
Best practices and recommendations 146
Summary 147
Chapter 6: Monitoring Your AWS Infrastructure 149
An overview of Amazon CloudWatch 149
Concepts and terminologies 150
Metrics 150
Namespaces 151
Dimensions 151
Time stamps and periods 151
Units and statistics 152
Alarms 153
CloudWatch limits and costs 154
Getting started with CloudWatch 155
Monitoring your account's estimate charges using CloudWatch 155
[ iii ]