Book description
Learn from the AWS subject-matter experts, apply real-world scenarios and clear the AWS Certified Solutions Architect ?Associate exam
Key Features
- Build highly reliable and scalable workloads on the AWS platform
- Pass the exam in less time and with confidence
- Get up and running with building and managing applications on the AWS platform
Book Description
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently the leader in the public cloud market. With an increasing global interest in leveraging cloud infrastructure, the AWS Cloud from Amazon offers a cutting-edge platform for architecting, building, and deploying web-scale cloud applications.
As more the rate of cloud platform adoption increases, so does the need for cloud certification. The AWS Certified Solution Architect ? Associate Guide is your one-stop solution to gaining certification. Once you have grasped what AWS and its prerequisites are, you will get insights into different types of AWS services such as Amazon S3, EC2, VPC, SNS, and more to get you prepared with core Amazon services. You will then move on to understanding how to design and deploy highly scalable applications. Finally, you will study security concepts along with the AWS best practices and mock papers to test your knowledge.
By the end of this book, you will not only be fully prepared to pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect ? Associate exam but also capable of building secure and reliable applications.
What you will learn
- Explore AWS terminology and identity and access management
- Acquaint yourself with important cloud services and features in categories such as compute, network, storage, and databases
- Define access control to secure AWS resources and set up efficient monitoring
- Back up your database and ensure high availability by understanding all of the database-related services in the AWS Cloud
- Integrate AWS with your applications to meet and exceed non-functional requirements
- Build and deploy cost-effective and highly available applications
Who this book is for
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect ?Associate Guide is for you if you are an IT professional or Solutions Architect wanting to pass the AWS Certified Solution Architect ? Associate 2018 exam. This book is also for developers looking to start building scalable applications on AWS
Publisher resources
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Dedication
- Packt Upsell
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introducing Amazon Web Services
- AWS Global Infrastructure Overview
- Elasticity and Scalability Concepts
- Hybrid Cloud Architectures
- Resilient Patterns
- Event Driven and Stateless Architectures
- Integrating Application Services
- Disaster Recovery Strategies
- Storage Options
- Matching Supply and Demand
- Introducing Amazon Elastic MapReduce
- Web Scale Applications
- Understanding Access Control
- Encryption and Key Management
- An Overview of Security and Compliance Services
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AWS Security Best Practices
- Technical requirements
- Shared responsibility model
- Data protection
- Virtual Private Cloud
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Identity and Access Management
- Avoid sharing identities
- Using MFA for privileged users
- Using roles
- Password policy
- Assigning permissions to groups instead of to individual users
- Rotating your access keys
- Assigning permissions according to the rule of least privilege
- Re-evaluating permissions and deleting accounts
- Do not use the root account as an operational user
- EC2 security
- Security services
- Summary
- Further reading
- Web Application Security
- Cost Effective Resources
- Working with Infrastructure as Code
- Automation with AWS
- Introduction to the DevOps practice in AWS
- Mock Test 1
- Mock Test 2
- Assessment
- Another Book You May Enjoy
Product information
- Title: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2018
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781789130669
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