Amazon Web Services in Action, Second Edition

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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 improves flexibility and lowers costs.

Figure 1.5. Building a highly available system on AWS by using a load balancer, multiple virtual machines, and a database with master-standby replication

Figure 1.6. Making use of the pay-per-use price model of virtual machines

Figure 1.7. Seasonal traffic patterns for a web shop

Figure 1.8. AWS bills services on minutes or ...