Aws Cookbook: Recipes for Success on Aws

This practical guide provides over 70 self-contained recipes to help you creatively solve common AWS challenges you'll encounter on your cloud journey. If you're comfortable with rudimentary scripting and general cloud concepts, this cookbook provides what you need to address foundational tasks and create high-level capabilities.

Authors John Culkin and Mike Zazon share real-world examples that incorporate best practices. Each recipe includes a diagram to visualize the components. Code is provided so that you can safely execute in an AWS account to ensure solutions work as described. From there, you can customize the code to help construct an application or fix an existing problem. Each recipe also includes a discussion to provide context, explain the approach, and challenge you to explore the possibilities further.

Go beyond theory and learn the details you need to successfully build on AWS. The recipes help you:

• Redact personal identifiable information (PII) from text using Amazon Comprehend
• Automate password rotation for Amazon RDS databases
• Use VPC Reachability Analyzer to verify and troubleshoot network paths
• Lock down Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets
• Analyze AWS Identity and Access Management policies
• Autoscale a containerized service

John Culkin has been a lifelong student of Technology. He acquired a BA from the University of Notre Dame and a MBA from the University of Scranton, both focusing on Management Information Systems. Embracing the cloud revolution has been a focus of his career. During his time as a Principal Cloud Architect Lead at Cloudreach, he led the delivery of cloud solutions aligned to business needs. During these migration and optimization engagements across many industries, he coached developers on how and what to engineer. Currently a Solutions Architect at AWS, he now focuses on creating business transformative solutions that utilize cloud services.

Mike Zazon's career and experience includes roles of software engineer, software architect, operations, physical IT infrastructure architecture in data centres and most recently cloud infrastructure architecture. Currently a Cloud Architect at AWS, he focuses on helping enterprise customers modernize their businesses using AWS. Mike enjoys working on all levels of the stack from foundational infrastructure to application refactoring.

James Ferguson has been involved in technology for the past 25 years.James has seen the transformation from on-prem data centers to the Cloud and SOA based systems personally. His roles have included Developer, Principal Architect, C-Level and Engineering team leads for some of the worlds largest companies. He now is a technology leader and Sr. SA with AWS, helping teams transform their business into nimble and productive services.