CHAPTER 2

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Working with AWS OpsWorks

Having completed the first chapter, you should now have a good grasp on the application we’re building. You should have also registered your AWS account and set up your administrative users in IAM. If you skipped the introductory chapter, the tutorial on Identity and Access Management (IAM) is important. You will have to be familiar with the main concepts of IAM to do almost anything with AWS.

Next, we will begin the process of deploying our basic application to AWS, using the OpsWorks application deployment service. In this chapter, you will create an instance of your app in OpsWorks and deploy it to the Web ...

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