AWS Fundamentals

• Introduction
• Creating an account
• Regions and Availability Zones
• The AWS web console
• CloudFormation templates
• Infrastructure as Code
• Visibility
• Consistency
• Troubleshooting
• Scale
• Costs
• DevOps
• Server configuration
• IaC on AWS
• CloudFormation
• What is CloudFormation?
• Why is CloudFormation important?
• The layer cake
• CloudFormation templates
• YAML versus JSON
• A closer look at CloudFormation templates
• Parameters
• Resources
• Outputs
• Mappings
• Dependencies and ordering
• Functions
• Fn::Join
• Fn::Sub
• Conditionals
• Permissions and service roles
• Custom resources
• Cross-stack references
• Updating resources
• Change sets
• Other things to know
• Name collisions
• Rollback
• Limits
• Circular dependencies
• DSLs and generators
• Credentials
• Stack policies
• The command-line interface tool
• Installation
• Upgrade
• Configuration
• Default profile
• Named profiles
• Environment variables
• Instance roles
• Usage
• Commands
• Subcommands
• Options
• Output
• JSON
• Table
• Text
• Querying
• Generate CLI skeleton
• Input
• Output
• Pagination
• Autocomplete
• Related tools
• jq

Managing AWS Accounts

• Introduction
• Setting up a master account
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more
• Multi-factor authentication
• Using the CLI
• See also
• Creating a member account
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more
• Accessing the member account
• Service control policies
• Root credentials
• Deleting accounts
• See also
• Inviting an account
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more
• Removing accounts
• Consolidated billing
• See also
• Managing your accounts
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• Getting the root ID for your organization
• Creating an OU
• Getting the ID of an OU
• Adding an account to an OU
• Removing an account from an OU
• Deleting an OU
• How it works
• There's more
• See also
• Adding a service control policy
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more
• See also

Storage and Content Delivery

• Introduction
• Storage
• Elastic Block Store
• Elastic File System
• Simple Storage Service
• Glacier
• Content delivery
• Hosting a static website
• How to do it
• Creating S3 buckets and hosting content
• Creating a hosted zone
• Creating DNS records
• Uploading website content
• How it works
• There's more
• Delegating your domain to AWS
• Cross-origin resource sharing
• Caching a website
• Getting ready
• About dynamic content
• Configuring CloudFront distributions
• How to do it
• Working with network storage
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more
• Backing up data for compliance
• How to do it
• How it works

Using AWS Compute

• Introduction
• Creating a key pair
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• Launching an instance
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more
• See also
• Attaching storage
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• See also
• Securely accessing private instances
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• Configuration
• How it works
• There's more
• Auto scaling an application server
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• Scaling policies
• Alarms
• Creating machine images
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• Template
• Validate the template
• Build the AMI
• There's more
• Debugging
• Orphaned resources
• Deregistering AMIs
• Other platforms
• Creating security groups
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• There's more
• Differences from traditional firewalls
• Creating a load balancer
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more
• HTTPS/SSL
• Path-based routing

Management Tools

• Introduction
• Auditing your AWS account
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more
• Recommendations with Trusted Advisor
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more
• Creating e-mail alarms
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more
• Existing topics
• Other subscriptions
• See also
• Publishing custom metrics in CloudWatch
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more
• Cron
• Auto scaling
• Backfilling
• See also
• Creating monitoring dashboards
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• There's more
• Widget types
• See also
• Creating a budget
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• Feeding log files into CloudWatch logs
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more

Database Services

• Introduction
• Creating a database with automatic failover
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more
• Creating a NAT gateway
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• See also
• Creating a database read-replica
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more
• Promoting a read-replica to master
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• Creating a one-time database backup
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• Restoring a database from a snapshot
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• There's more
• Migrating a database
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more
• Database engines
• Ongoing replication
• Multi-AZ
• Calculating DyanmoDB performance
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more
• Burst capacity
• Metrics
• Eventually consistent reads

Networking

• Introduction
• Building a secure network
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more
• See also
• Creating a NAT gateway
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• See also
• Canary deployment via DNS
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• Hosting a domain
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more
• See also
• Routing based on location with failover
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• Normal operation (geolocation routing)
• Region A failure
• Region B failure
• There's more
• See also
• Network logging and troubleshooting
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more
• Log format
• Updates
• Omissions

Security and Identity

• Introduction
• Federating with your AWS account
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• Active Directory configuration
• Auth Account policy configuration
• Auth Account role configuration
• Simple AD configuration
• App Account role configuration
• How it works
• There's more
• See also
• Creating SSL certificates
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more
• EC2 instances
• Importing certificates
• CloudFormation
• Active Directory as a service
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more
• See also
• Creating users
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• There's more
• See also
• Creating instance roles
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more
• See also
• Cross-account user roles
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more
• AWS CLI profiles
• See also
• Storing secrets
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more
• Key aliases
• Secret reader role
• Secret writer role
• The put-file command
• Versioning

Estimating Costs

• Introduction
• Calculating costs
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• See also
• Estimating CloudFormation template costs
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• See also
• Purchasing reserved instances
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more
• Estimating total cost of ownership
• Getting ready
• How to do it
• How it works
• There's more
• See also
• Index