Chapter 1, AWS Fundamentals, provides an overview of infrastructure as code, CloudFormation, and the AWS CLI tools.

Chapter 2, Account Setup and Management, includes everything you need to know to manage your accounts and get started with AWS organizations.

Chapter 3, AWS Storage and Content Delivery, shows how to back up your data and serve file objects to your users.

Chapter 4, AWS Compute, dives deep into how to run VMs (EC2 instances) on AWS, how to autoscale them, and how to create and manage load balancers.

Chapter 5, Monitoring the Infrastructure, provides an overview of how to audit your account and monitor your infrastructure.

Chapter 6, Managing AWS Databases, shows how to create, manage, and scale databases on the AWS platform.

Chapter 7, AWS Networking Essentials, introduces private networks, routing, and DNS.

Chapter 8, AWS Account Security and Identity, offers advice and practical solutions for managing identities and role-based access.

Chapter 9, Managing Costs, provides an overview of how to estimate your spend on the AWS platform as well as how to reduce your costs by purchasing reserved instance capacity.

Chapter 10, Advanced AWS CloudFormation, explains how to pursue plans that will enable you to customize the behavior of CloudFormation, and apply your scripts over various regions and accounts.

Chapter 11, AWS Well-Architected Framework, introduces the AWS Well-Architected Framework, which was created by AWS following years spent working with clients, to enable them to build secure, highly performant, and reliable systems.

Chapter 12, Working with Business Applications, enables you to gain proficiency with these services so that you can supplant costly on-premises assets with cloud-based options.

Appendix, AWS Partner Solutions, presents a few recipes covering products offered by members of the AWS Partner Network (APN).