Chapter 20. Everything else (nearly)
This book wasn’t meant to be encyclopedic, so covering all of the many AWS services was never part of the plan. Still, deciding what to include and what to leave out was a struggle. My goal was to introduce you to the core tools and principles necessary to successfully launch robust server-based applications. There is, of course, no single “right” way to use AWS, but I think my approach should open doors to the widest possible range of scenarios.
In addition to the core services that I gave the full treatment, chapter 18 summarized categories of services useful for hybrid solutions, and chapter 19 briefly looked at three automation tools. Now it’s time for the “none of the above” section.
Before I get started, I’ll point out that we certainly haven’t been wasting our time. The first 18 chapters of the book (skipping over chapter 19) explored more than a dozen individual services; see table 20.1.
Table 20.1. Services covered in this book, arranged by AWS service category
| Category |
Service |
Chapter(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Compute | EC2 | 2, 3, 15, 16 |
| Storage | S3 | 6, 7 |
| Glacier | 18 | |
| Storage Gateway | 18 | |
| Databases | Relational Database Service | 4 |
| Networking | VPC | 14 |
| CloudFront | 17 | |
| Direct Connect | 18 | |
| Route 53 | 5 | |
| Migration | Snowball | 18 |
| Management tools | CloudWatch | 11 |
| Security | IAM | 8 |
| Certificate Manager | 17 |