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You're reading from AWS SysOps Cookbook Practical recipes to build, automate, and manage your AWS-based cloud environments

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2019

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781838550189

Length 490 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

System Administration

Authors (3):

Eric Z. Beard

Rowan Udell

Lucas Chan

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. AWS Fundamentals

2. Account Setup and Management FREE CHAPTER

3. AWS Storage and Content Delivery

4. AWS Compute

5. Monitoring the Infrastructure

6. Managing AWS Databases

7. AWS Networking Essentials

8. AWS Account Security and Identity

9. Managing Costs

10. Advanced AWS CloudFormation

11. AWS Well-Architected Framework

12. Working with Business Applications

13. AWS Partner Solutions

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Creating a load balancer

AWS offers several kinds of load balancers:

Classic load balancer
Application load balancer
Network load balancer

We're going to focus on the application load balancer in this section. It's effectively an upgraded, second-generation version of the ELB service, and it offers a lot more functionality than the classic load balancer. HTTP/2 and WebSockets are supported natively, for example. The hourly rate also happens to be cheaper.

Application load balancers do not support layer-4 load balancing. For this kind of functionality, you'll need to use a classic load balancer.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create a load balancer using CloudFormation:

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Authors (3)

Eric Z. Beard

Eric Z. Beard, a former United States Marine, has nearly two decades of experience in technology, leading diverse DevOps and solutions architecture teams. Eric is currently a manager at Amazon Web Services in Seattle, Washington, and holds nine AWS certifications.

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Udell

Rowan Udell has been working in development and operations for 15 years. His travels have seen him work in start-ups and enterprises in the finance, education, and web industries in both Australia and Canada. He currently works as a Technical Director at Versent, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, working with teams building cloud-native products on AWS. He specializes in serverless applications and architectures on AWS, and contributes actively in the AWS and serverless communities.

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Chan

Lucas Chan has been working in tech since 1995 in a variety of development, systems admin, and DevOps roles. He is currently a senior consultant and engineer at Versent and was a technical director at Stax. He's been running production workloads on AWS for over 10 years. He's also a member of the APAC AWS warriors program and holds all five of the available AWS certifications.

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