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List of Figures

 

Chapter 1. Before you begin

Figure 1.1. The AWS main Console: each item links to a complete AWS service.

Figure 1.2. AWS-provided illustration representing a typical VPC configuration

Figure 1.3. Drop-down menu (found near the upper-right corner of the Console) allowing you to switch your base geographic region

Figure 1.4. An illustration of the way compute instances are virtualized within a single physical server on AWS versus the use of individual physical machines in the legacy model

Figure 1.5. The kind of deployment you should be able to build once you’ve read at least the first 12 chapters of this book

Chapter 2. The 10-minute EC2 web server

Figure 2.1. Part of the AWS Console displaying key services grouped by theme, with compute and storage services highlighted

Figure 2.2. Select an Ubuntu AMI. Note also some of the many alternative OSs that are available as AMIs.

Figure 2.3. AWS security group configuration page

Figure 2.4. EC2 Instance details page, which displays important information—including the instance’s public IP address—and links to instance-related resources

Figure 2.5. Contents of the /var/www/html directory. Note the ls command, which displays the existing index.html file.

Figure 2.6. The default Apache welcome page, which includes important information about how Apache is run from an Ubuntu server

Chapter 3. Provisioning a more robust EC2 website

Figure 3.1. A quiet EC2 web server, as measured by top