Contents at a Glance -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Using This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Part I: Getting Started with AWS -- Chapter 1: Amazon Web Services Philosophy and Design -- Cloud Computing Defined -- Understanding the Amazon Business Philosophy -- The AWS Infrastructure -- The AWS Ecosystem -- Counting Up the Network Effects Benefit -- AWS versus Other Cloud Providers -- Getting Ready for the 21st Century -- Chapter 2: Introducing the AWS API -- APIs: Understanding the Basics -- Benefiting from Web Services -- An Overview of the AWS API -- AWS API Security -- Chapter 3: Introducing the AWS Management Console -- Setting Up Your Amazon Web Services Account -- Accessing Your First AWS Service -- Loading Data into S3 Buckets -- S3 URL Naming Conventions -- Last Words on the AWS Management Console -- Part II: Diving into AWS Offerings -- Chapter 4: Setting Up AWS Storage -- Differentiating the Amazon Storage Options -- Storing Items in the Simple Storage Service (S3) Bucket -- Managing Volumes of Information with Elastic Block Storage (EBS) -- Managing Archive Material with the Glacier Storage Service -- Scaling Key-Value Data with DynamoDB -- Selecting an AWS Storage Service -- Chapter 5: Stretching Out with Elastic Compute Cloud -- Introducing EC2 -- Seeing EC2's Unique Nature -- Working with an EC2 Example -- Chapter 6: AWS Networking -- Brushing Up on Networking Basics -- AWS Network IP Addressing -- AWS IP Address Mapping -- AWS Direct Connect -- High-Performance AWS Networking -- AWS Elastic IP Addresses -- AWS Instance Metadata -- Instance IP Address Communication -- Chapter 7: AWS Security -- Clouds Can Have Boundaries, Too -- The Deperimeterization of Security -- AWS Security Groups -- Using Security Groups to Partition Applications.

Security Group Best Practices -- AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) -- AWS Application Security -- Chapter 8: Additional Core AWS Services -- Understanding the Other AWS Services -- CloudFront -- Relational Database Service (RDS) -- ElastiCache -- Integrating Additional AWS Services into Your Application -- Choosing the Right Additional AWS Service Integration Approach -- Dealing with AWS Lock-in -- Part III: Using AWS -- Chapter 9: AWS Platform Services -- Searching with CloudSearch -- Managing Video Conversions with Elastic Transcoder -- Simple Queue Service -- Simple Notification Service -- Simple E-Mail Service -- Simple Workflow Service -- Dealing with Big Data with the Help of Elastic MapReduce -- Redshift -- Chapter 10: AWS Management Services -- Managing Your AWS Applications -- Which AWS Management Service Should I Use? -- Chapter 11: Managing AWS Costs -- AWS Costs - It's Complicated -- Taking Advantage of Cost and Utilization Tracking -- Managing Your AWS Costs -- Chapter 12: Bringing It All Together: An AWS Application -- Putting the Pieces Together -- Improving Application Robustness with Geographical Redundancy -- Part IV: The Part of Tens -- Chapter 13: Ten Reasons to Use Amazon Web Services -- AWS Provides IT Agility -- AWS Provides Business Agility -- AWS Offers a Rich Services Ecosystem -- AWS Simplifies IT Operations -- AWS Spans the Globe -- AWS Is the Leading Cloud-Computing Service Provider -- AWS Enables Innovation -- AWS Is Cost Effective -- AWS Aligns Your Organization with the Future of Technology -- AWS Is Good for Your Career -- Chapter 14: Ten Design Principles for Cloud Applications -- Everything Fails All the Time -- Redundancy Protects Against Resource Failure -- Geographic Distribution Protects Against Infrastructure Failure -- Monitoring Prevents Problems -- Utilization Review Prevents Waste.

Application Management Automates Administration -- Security Design Prevents Breaches and Data Loss -- Encryption Ensures Privacy -- Tier-Based Design Increases Efficiency -- Good Application Architecture Prevents Technical Debt -- Index -- About the Author.