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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator ??? Associate Guide

By : Marko Sluga
Book Image

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator ??? Associate Guide

By: Marko Sluga

Overview of this book

AWS certifications are becoming one of the must have certifications for any IT professional working on an AWS Cloud platform. This book will act as your one stop preparation guide to validate your technical expertise in deployment, management, and operations on the AWS platform. Along with exam specific content this book will also deep dive into real world scenarios and hands-on instructions. This book will revolve around concepts like teaching you to deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS. You will also learn to migrate an existing on-premises application to AWS. You get hands-on experience in selecting the appropriate AWS service based on compute, data, or security requirements. This book will also get you well versed with estimating AWS usage costs and identifying operational cost control mechanisms. By the end of this book, you will be all prepared to implement and manage resources efficiently on the AWS cloud along with confidently passing the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)

Registering a domain and creating a zone

Amazon Web Services have made it very easy for us to register a new domain from the AWS Management console. The first time we navigate to the Route 53 management console, we will see a short introduction to the Route 53 service:

  1. We can select the feature we would like to get started with; in this demo, we will select Get started now under Domain registration:
  1. Once we are in the domain registration console, we have the option to register a new domain or transfer an existing domain registered at a different provider. We will take a look at the process of registering a domain by clicking on the Register Domain button:
  1. In the Choose a domain name dialog, we can simply write the domain name that we wish to register and then click on Check, which will enable us to search for the existence of the domain.
  1. If the domain already exists,...