How to take advantage of the AWS ecosystem?

Amazon services are like Lego pieces. If you can picture your final product, then you can explore the different services and start combining them, in order to build the stack needed to quickly and efficiently build your product. Of course, in this case, the if is a big if, and, unlike Lego, understanding what each piece can do is a lot less visual and colorful. That is why this book is written in a very practical way; throughout the different chapters, we are going to take a web application and deploy it like it's our core product. You will see how to scale the infrastructure supporting it, so that millions of people can use it, and also so that you can make it more secure. And, of course, we will do this following DevOps best practices. By going through that exercise, you will learn how AWS provides a number of managed services and systems to perform a number of common tasks, such as computing, networking, load balancing, storing data, monitoring, programmatically managing infrastructure and deployment, caching, and queuing.