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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)

EC2 placement groups

When you deploy a fleet of instances that are processing transactions in a distributed manner, you sometimes need to control the placement of the instances in the underlying architecture to allow for certain specific application requirements. You can use placement groups to control this behavior.

Cluster placement groups

You can use the cluster placement groups to group instances together in a configuration to allow for very low network latency. Cluster placement groups allow for the non-blocking, non-oversubscribed, fully bi-sectional nature of the connectivity, meaning that instances in a placement group will be able to utilize the full line rate of 10 GBps to talk to each other. To place instances in...