Getting Started with AWS: Hosting a Web Application

Hosting a web application on Linux servers can be complex and expensive, especially if traffic is growing rapidly or fluctuating significantly. This guide shows how to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to create a scalable web application that can handle sophisticated demands and workloads. It includes an example architecture of a web application hosted on AWS, and it walks you through a process, using best practices, for deploying a sample application that uses several key AWS services. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it online or in PDF format at http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/wah-linux/.