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AWS for System Administrators
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AWS for System Administrators

by Prashant Lakhera
February 2021
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
388 pages
6h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 1: Setting Up the AWS Environment

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has changed the way we do system administration. Think of a pre-cloud era where if we planned to set up a new data center, it would go through a month of planning, which would involve choosing the location, ordering hardware, setting up the networking infrastructure (such as routers and switches); and the list goes on and on. With AWS, setting up a new data center can be performed with the help of few clicks or can be done with the help of application programming interface (API) calls.

This chapter will start by setting up the environment. We will begin by installing and configuring the AWS command-line interface (CLI), which we will use throughout the book. Next, we will install ...

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