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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator ??? Associate Guide

By : Marko Sluga
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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)

Overview of CloudFront

CloudFront is a highly scalable, low-latency content delivery network that can help us efficiently deliver content such as static and dynamic website data, videos, images, and any application components that are allowed to be cached. CloudFront can dramatically lower the latency and cut down the delivery time for content from AWS data centers to the end users. CloudFront operates out of (at the time of writing) 150 Edge Locations worldwide, so any content delivered into CloudFront can be distributed to a global audience at the lowest latency possible.

Features of CloudFront

CloudFront has the ability to cache various types of data that can be presented via HTTP or HTTPS. To configure a CloudFront distribution...