Website Hosting and Migration With Amazon Web Services ― A Practical Guide to Moving Your Website to Aws

Understand the steps necessary to host your web site using the Amazon Web Services platform. You will be able to set up your web site for the first time or migrate your existing web site. Explore scenarios and considerations and steps for three types of web sites, including hosting a static web site, a content management system (CMS) based web site and a full-featured enterprise level web site. Topic areas such as content storage in S3, compute resources in EC2, Route53 DNS Management, email services setup using Simple Email Service as well as strategies for high availability, fault tolerance, and web site maintenance are covered.

Website Hosting and Migration with Amazon Web Services is organized in a way that allows you to start with simple concepts using AWS core services that allow you to build knowledge and confidence using AWS services while exploring the latest technology on this ever-updating platform. Using AWS to host your web site offers you more control over your infrastructure, content delivery, and ability to scale to fit your web site needs. It’s time to take control and take your web site to the next level. This engaging resource:

• Explains how to use the Amazon Web Services Free Tier to evaluate the platform for hosting your web site
• Walks you through the setup and migration steps for three unique and popular web hosting scenarios
• Delivers hands-on experience with base concepts that can be built upon to grow and improve your web site infrastructure
• Provides sample resources to test and understand the setup process fully

What you’ll learn

• How to evaluate Amazon Web Services offered on the platform that may benefit your web site
  
• How to set up and maintain three unique types of web sites using AWS core services, enabling you to gain a deeper understanding of what is capable for your web site or future projects
  
• How to select AWS services that can improve performance and control of your web site
  
• How to manage DNS, domain registration, and transfers in AWS
  
• How to use CloudFront to deliver content efficiently on a Global scale
  
• How to use AWS RDS to deliver a redundant database solution for your web site
  

Who This Book Is For

Readers will be small business owners, webmasters, freelance web designers and others looking to have more control over their web content, save money by using a platform that charges for just the services you use, or grow the stability of their web site by making it highly available, fault tolerant and easily deployed. In addition to this primary audience, a secondary audience will be those looking to learn more about AWS Web Hosting options in general.

Jason Nadon started creating web content back in the days of Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). His interest eventually led him to join a company providing complex Internet-hosted tax and accounting applications and he has enjoyed growth with that same company for the past 17 years. He has held positions as a Web Analyst, Web Services Administrator, Web Project Lead, IT Project Manager, Customer Systems Infrastructure Manager, and is currently the Lead Analyst on the Development Operations team. He has been the technical reviewer for six web-related book titles published by Apress. He founded the Ann Arbor, Michigan Macromedia User Group and participated in the Macromedia/Adobe MAX conferences from 2001 to 2005. Most recently Jason’s focus has shifted to Amazon Web Services and Cloud Infrastructure and he is helping extend on-premise Data Center environments to better serve customers.