Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and application programming interfaces (APIs) to individuals, companies, and govern- ments, along with distributed computing processing capacity and software tools via AWS server farms. This text presents a hands-on approach for beginners to get started with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in a simple way.Key FeaturesIt discusses topics such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling Groups, and Amazon Simple Storage Service.It showcases Amazon Web Services' identity, access management resources, and attribute-based access control.It covers serverless computing services, Virtual Private Cloud, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Comprehend.It explains Amazon Web Services Free Tier, Amazon Web Services Marketplace, and Amazon Elastic Container Service.It includes security in Amazon Web Services, the shared responsibilitymodel, and high-performance computing on Amazon Web Services.The text is primarily written for graduate students, professionals, and academic researchers working in the fields of computer science, engineering, and information technology.Parul Dubey is currently working as an Assistant professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at G H Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur, India. She has filed for 15 Indian patents. She is responsible for about 10 publications in conference proceedings, Scopus, and journals. She has contributed book chapters in an edited book published by CRC Press and other reputed publishers. She is also an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.Rohit Raja is working as an associate professor and head in the Department of Information Technology at Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, India. His research interests include facial recognition, signal processing, networking, and data mining. He has pub- lished 100 research papers in various international and national journals (including publications by the IEEE, Springer, etc.) and proceedings of reputed international and national conferences (again including publications by Springer and the IEEE).
