Copyright
Brief Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About This Book
Chapter 1. Before you begin
1.1. Is this book for you?
1.2. Using this book
1.2.1. The main chapters
1.2.2. Hands-on labs
1.2.3. Try it now
1.3. Being immediately effective
1.4. Setting up your lab environment
1.5. Finding help
1.6. How AWS does it
1.6.1. The big picture
1. The core AWS tools
Chapter 2. The 10-minute EC2 web server
2.1. What is EC2, and what does it do?
2.2. Launching an AWS instance
2.3. Accessing your AWS instance
2.4. Building an Ubuntu Linux web server
2.4.1. Installing the software
2.4.2. Creating the website
2.5. Troubleshooting
2.6. Lab
Chapter 3. Provisioning a more robust EC2 website
3.1. Calculating capacity needs
3.2. Getting the measure of EC2’s core compute services
3.2.1. vCPU
3.2.2. EBS