Chapter 1. What is Amazon Web Services?
Figure 1.1. AWS data center locations
Figure 1.2. Running a web shop on-premises vs. on AWS
Figure 1.3. Running a web shop on AWS with CDN for better performance, a load balancer for high availability, and a managed database to decrease maintenance costs
Figure 1.4. Running a Java EE application with enterprise networking on AWS
Figure 1.5. Backing up and archiving data on-premises and on AWS
Figure 1.6. Building a fault-tolerant system on AWS
Figure 1.7. Seasonal traffic patterns for a web shop
Figure 1.8. Web shop billing example
Figure 1.9. The AWS cloud is composed of hardware and software services accessible via an API.
Figure 1.10. Managing a custom application running on a virtual server and dependent services
Figure 1.11. Handling an HTTP request with a custom web application using additional AWS services
Figure 1.12. Tools to interact with the AWS API
Figure 1.13. Management Console
Figure 1.14. Command-line interface
Figure 1.15. Infrastructure automation with blueprints
Figure 1.16. Creating an AWS account: Sign Up page
Figure 1.17. Creating an AWS account: providing your contact information
Figure 1.18. Creating an AWS account: providing your payment details
Figure 1.19. Creating an AWS account: verifying your identity (1 of 2)
Figure 1.20. Creating an AWS account: verifying your identity (2 of 2)
Figure 1.21. Creating an AWS account: choosing your support plan
Figure 1.22. Sign in to the Management Console.