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AWS for System Administrators
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AWS for System Administrators

by Prashant Lakhera
February 2021
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
388 pages
6h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 12: AWS Tips and Tricks

In the final chapter of this book, we will look at 10 tips and tricks to get the most out of Amazon Web Services (AWS). We will start with the networking side of the infrastructure and learn about some common virtual private cloud (VPC) limitations and which subnet to choose while building a VPC. We will then move on to one common issue: the difference between a dedicated instance and a dedicated host, and which one to select under which conditions. Then, we will look at a fairly new feature in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) permission boundary and how it restricts access.

Then, we will move to the monitoring side and look at the custom CloudWatch metrics and how they are useful. We will also look at ...

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