AWS in Motion guides you through your first steps of deploying a web application on AWS, teaching you the basics of the AWS ecosystem. You'll start by setting up a free AWS account, and then you'll learn how a typical web stack runs and scales in the cloud in a manner that can beat any physical data center! In nearly 3 hours of easy-to-follow video lessons, you'll explore the many services available in the AWS ecosystem.

• Understanding the AWS ecosystem
• Setting up an AWS account
• Running virtual machines on AWS
• Using a relational database service
• Scaling your applications up (or down!)

Designed for system administrators and DevOps engineers looking to start developing and deploying applications on the AWS platform. You need to be familiar with the basic components of a web application and the general terminology of a network.

Andreas Wittig and Michael Wittig are software engineers and consultants focused on AWS. Together, they wrote Manning’s Amazon Web Services in Action.

Great tutorial to get up and running with AWS quickly.
Dan Kacenjar, Sr. Application Architect

Good technical presentation - logical and clear instruction on how to manipulate AWS scaling with Auto Scaling Groups.
Aaron Watson, Software Architect

If you want to learn AWS and don’t know where to start this video course is for you.
Luis Carlos Sanchez Gonzalez, Java Software Designer

Table of Contents

UNIT 1 - Introducing Amazon Web Services

What is Amazon Web Services? 00:09:00

Cloud Computing explained 00:05:09

How can you benefit from using AWS? 00:07:46

What can you do with AWS? 00:02:52

How much does it cost? 00:05:37

Exploring AWS service ecosystem 00:03:15

UNIT 2 - Creating an AWS Account

Signing up 00:08:23

Signing in 00:04:03

Creating a key pair 00:04:36

Creating a billing alarm 00:05:15

UNIT 3 - Using virtual servers

Virtual machines 00:04:03

Launching a virtual machine 00:11:44

Connecting to a virtual machine 00:05:18

Installing and running software 00:07:49

Monitoring and debugging a virtual machine 00:05:09

Shutting down a virtual machine 00:04:23

UNIT 4 - Using a relational database service

Starting a MySQL database 00:09:43

Connecting to the database 00:07:03

Monitoring a database 00:04:18

Backing up and restoring your database 00:04:37

UNIT 5 - Using redundant EC2 instances to achieve HA

Running in multiple data centers: Availability Zones 00:10:04

Decoupling with DNS Route 53 00:08:38

Decoupling with load balancers: ALB 00:07:32

Stateless applications 00:10:00

UNIT 6 - Scaling up and down

Managing a dynamic machine pool 00:09:08

Using schedules to trigger scaling 00:03:54

Using metrics to trigger scaling 00:06:48

UNIT 7 - Cleanup and Summary

Cleanup 00:06:56

What’s next? 00:08:30