List of Tables

Chapter 1. What is Amazon Web Services?

Table 1.1. How an AWS bill changes if the number of web shop visitors increases

Chapter 2. A simple example: WordPress in five minutes

Table 2.1. More detailed cost calculation for blogging infrastructure

Chapter 3. Using virtual machines: EC2

Table 3.1. Examples of instance families and instance types

Table 3.2. Differences between on-demand, reserved, and spot virtual machines

Table 3.3. Potential cost savings for a virtual machine with instance type m4.large

Chapter 4. Programming your infrastructure: The command-line, SDKs, and CloudFormation

Table 4.1. CloudFormation parameter types

Table 4.2. CloudFormation parameter properties

Chapter 5. Automating deployment: CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, and OpsWorks

Table 5.1. Differences between using CloudFormation with a script on virtual machine startup, Elastic Beanstalk, and OpsWorks Stacks

Chapter 6. Securing your system: IAM, security groups, and VPC

Table 6.1. Differences between root user, IAM user, and IAM role

Chapter 7. Automating operational tasks with Lambda

Table 7.1. AWS Lambda compared to Amazon EC2

Table 7.2. The CloudWatch metrics published by each Lambda function

Table 7.3. AWS Lambda pricing model

Chapter 8. Storing your objects: S3 and Glacier

Table 8.1. Differences between storing data with S3 and Glacier

Chapter 9. Storing data on hard drives: EBS and instance store

Table 9.1. What performance can be expected from EBS optimized instance types?