Chapter 10
AWS Management Services
In This Chapter
Meeting the challenge of managing AWS applications
Understanding what an Elastic Beanstack is
Lining up your applications with Cloud Formation
Managing graphical applications with OpsWorks
Deciding which AWS management service is right for you
The chapter title I’ve chosen should provoke an obvious question: Given the richness of the AWS resources now available (a richness spelled out in detail in the opening chapters of this book) and the AWS Management Console (which I cover quite thoroughly in Chapter 3), why would you need any additional management services?
That’s kind of a trick question, in that the answer lies in the question itself — it’s because of the richness of the collection of the AWS offerings that more capable management services are themselves necessary.
In the past, in order to create or run an application, you had to do a ton of work, none of which was directly tied to application functionality: Install software ...
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