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

Table 1.2. Differences between AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and OpenStack

Chapter 2. A simple example: WordPress in five minutes

Table 2.1. Blogging infrastructure cost calculation with AWS Simple Monthly Calculator

Chapter 3. Using virtual servers: EC2

Table 3.1. Overview of instance families and instance types

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

Table 3.3. Potential cost savings for a virtual server (m3.medium)

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 server startup, Elastic Beanstalk, and OpsWorks

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

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

Chapter 7. Storing your objects: S3 and Glacier

Table 7.1. Differences between storing data with S3 and Glacier

Chapter 8. Storing your data on hard drives: EBS and instance store

Table 8.1. What performance can be expected from EBS optimized instance types?

Table 8.2. How EBS volume types differ

Table 8.3. Instance families with instance stores

Table 8.4. S3 vs. block-level storage solutions in AWS