Chapter 11. IAAS with Amazon AWS

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

  • Signing up for AWS
  • Setting up IAM
  • Creating your first security group
  • Creating your first EC2 host
  • Using Elastic Load Balancers
  • Managing DNS with route53
  • Using Ansible to create EC2 hosts

Introduction

The term cloud computing has diluted immensely over the years and the cloud label is being applied to any technology that interacts over the network. Originally though, it was used to describe what is now being termed as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IAAS).

IAAS has revolutionized the approach of many companies by helping them build applications and infrastructure, and for many companies, has turned infrastructure into a utility rather than a massive internal cost center. ...

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