Copyright
Brief Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Praise for the First Edition
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About this book
About the authors
About the cover illustration
1. Getting started
Chapter 1. What is Amazon Web Services?
1.1. What is cloud computing?
1.2. What can you do with AWS?
1.2.1. Hosting a web shop
1.2.2. Running a Java EE application in your private network
1.2.3. Implementing a highly available system
1.2.4. Profiting from low costs for batch processing infrastructure
1.3. How you can benefit from using AWS
1.3.1. Innovative and fast-growing platform
1.3.2. Services solve common problems
1.3.3. Enabling automation
1.3.4. Flexible capacity (scalability)
1.3.5. Built for failure (reliability)
1.3.6. Reducing time to market
1.3.7. Benefiting from economies of scale
1.3.8. Global infrastructure
1.3.9. Professional partner
1.4. How much does it cost?
1.4.1. Free Tier
1.4.2. Billing example