The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes are often considered significant texts for the Christian moral life. However, most interpretations of these passages either focus on the original meaning of the text or how the texts should impact ordinary living today. In The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes Yiu Sing Lucas Chan brings together biblical studies and Christian ethics to look at these foundational texts in a new way. For each passage Chan asks both what the texts meant and what they mean today. He helps readers to carefully study the text's original meaning, then interpret the text within a sound ethical framework. The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes is an excellent introduction to key concepts in biblical studies and Christian ethics that combines sound study with warmth and wisdom.

The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes are often considered significant texts for the Christian moral life. However, most interpretations of these passages either focus on the original meaning of the text or how the texts should impact ordinary living today. In The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes Yiu Sing Lucas Chan brings together biblical studies and Christian ethics to look at these foundational texts in a new way. For each passage Chan asks both what the texts meant and what they mean today. He helps readers to carefully study the text s original meaning, then interpret the text within a sound ethical framework. The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes is an excellent introduction to key concepts in biblical studies and Christian ethics that combines sound study with warmth and wisdom.

Become an AWS SysOps administrator and explore best practices to maintain a well-architected, resilient, and secure AWS environment Key Features Explore AWS Cloud functionalities through a recipe-based approach Get to grips with a variety of techniques for automating your infrastructure Discover industry-proven best practices for architecting reliable and efficient workloads Book DescriptionAWS is an on-demand remote computing service providing cloud infrastructure over the internet with storage, bandwidth, and customized support for APIs. This updated second edition will help you implement these services and efficiently administer your AWS environment. You will start with the AWS fundamentals and then understand how to manage multiple accounts before setting up consolidated billing. The book will assist you in setting up reliable and fast hosting for static websites, sharing data between running instances and backing up data for compliance. By understanding how to use compute service, you will also discover how to achieve quick and consistent instance provisioning. You'll then learn to provision storage volumes and autoscale an app server. Next, you'll explore serverless development with AWS Lambda, and gain insights into using networking and database services such as Amazon Neptune. The later chapters will focus on management tools like AWS CloudFormation, and how to secure your cloud resources and estimate costs for your infrastructure. Finally, you'll use the AWS well-architected framework to conduct a technology baseline review self-assessment and identify critical areas for improvement in the management and operation of your cloud-based workloads. By the end of this book, you'll have the skills to effectively administer your AWS environment. What you will learn Secure your account by creating IAM users and avoiding the use of the root login Simplify the creation of a multi-account landing zone using AWS Control Tower Master Amazon S3 for unlimited, cost-efficient storage of data Explore a variety of compute resources on the AWS Cloud, such as EC2 and AWS Lambda Configure secure networks using Amazon VPC, access control lists, and security groups Estimate your monthly bill by using cost estimation tools Learn to host a website with Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudFront, and S3 Who this book is forIf you are an administrator, DevOps engineer, or an IT professional interested in exploring administrative tasks on the AWS Cloud, then this book is for you. Familiarity with cloud computing platforms and some understanding of virtualization, networking, and other administration-related tasks is assumed.

Work through exciting recipes to administer your AWS cloud Key Features Build secure environments using AWS components and services Explore core AWS features with real-world applications and best practices Design and build Lambda functions using real-world examples Book DescriptionWith this Learning Path, you'll explore techniques to easily manage applications on the AWS cloud. You'll begin with an introduction to serverless computing, its advantages, and the fundamentals of AWS. The following chapters will guide you on how to manage multiple accounts by setting up consolidated billing, enhancing your application delivery skills, with the latest AWS services such as CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline to provide continuous delivery and deployment, while also securing and monitoring your environment's workflow. It'll also add to your understanding of the services AWS Lambda provides to developers. To refine your skills further, it demonstrates how to design, write, test, monitor, and troubleshoot Lambda functions. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: AWS Administration: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Yohan Wadia AWS Administration Cookbook by Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan Mastering AWS Lambda by Yohan Wadia, Udita Gupta What you will learn Explore the benefits of serverless computing and applications Deploy apps with AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Amazon Elastic File System Secure environments with AWS CloudTrail, AWSConfig, and AWS Shield Run big data analytics with Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift Back up and safeguard data using AWS Data Pipeline Create monitoring and alerting dashboards using CloudWatch Effectively monitor and troubleshoot serverless applications with AWS Design serverless apps via AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway Who this book is forThis Learning Path is specifically designed for IT system and network administrators, AWS architects, and DevOps engineers who want to effectively implement AWS in their organization and easily manage daily activities. Familiarity with Linux, web services, cloud computing platforms, virtualization, networking, and other administration-related tasks will assist in understanding the concepts in the book. Prior hands-on experience with AWS core services such as EC2, IAM, S3, and programming languages, such as Node.Js, Java, and C#, will also prove beneficial.

Build, automate, and manage your AWS-based cloud environments About This Book * Install, configure, and administer computing, storage, and networking in the AWS cloud * Automate your infrastructure and control every aspect of it through infrastructure as code * Work through exciting recipes to administer your AWS cloud Who This Book Is For If you are an administrator, DevOps engineer, or an IT professional who is moving to an AWS-based cloud environment, then this book is for you. It assumes familiarity with cloud computing platforms, and that you have some understanding of virtualization, networking, and other administration-related tasks. What You Will Learn * Discover the best practices to achieve an automated repeatable infrastructure in AWS * Bring down your IT costs by managing AWS successfully and deliver high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability * Make any website faster with static and dynamic caching * Create monitoring and alerting dashboards using CloudWatch * Migrate a database to AWS * Set up consolidated billing to achieve simple and effective cost management with accounts * Host a domain and find out how you can automate health checks In Detail Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a bundled remote computing service that provides cloud computing infrastructure over the Internet with storage, bandwidth, and customized support for application programming interfaces (API). Implementing these services to efficiently administer your cloud environments is a core task. This book will help you build and administer your cloud environment with AWS. We'll begin with the AWS fundamentals, and you'll build the foundation for the recipes you'll work on throughout the book. Next, you will find out how to manage multiple accounts and set up consolidated billing. You will then learn to set up reliable and fast hosting for static websites, share data between running instances, and back up your data for compliance. Moving on, you will find out how to use the compute service to enable consistent and fast instance provisioning, and will see how to provision storage volumes and autoscale an application server. Next, you'll discover how to effectively use the networking and database service of AWS. You will also learn about the different management tools of AWS along with securing your AWS cloud. Finally, you will learn to estimate the costs for your cloud. By the end of the book, you will be able to easily administer your AWS cloud. Style and approach This practical guide is packed with clear, practical, instruction-based recipes that will enable you to use and implement the latest features of AWS.