Amazon Web Services in Action

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Chapter 1. What is Amazon Web Services?

Figure 1.1. AWS data center locations

Figure 1.2. Running a web shop on-premises vs. on AWS

Figure 1.3. Running a web shop on AWS with CDN for better performance, a load balancer for high availability, and a managed database to decrease maintenance costs

Figure 1.4. Running a Java EE application with enterprise networking on AWS

Figure 1.5. Backing up and archiving data on-premises and on AWS

Figure 1.6. Building a fault-tolerant system on AWS

Figure 1.7. Seasonal traffic patterns for a web shop

Figure 1.8. Web shop billing example

Figure 1.9. The AWS cloud is composed of hardware and software services accessible via an API.

Figure 1.10. Managing a custom application running on a virtual ...