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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)

Working with CloudFront

In this part, we will build on our previous exercise where we created a static website hosted on S3. If you are following along with this example, you are free to select any other custom origin as the source of the distribution to try the features out on your live data.

Creating a CloudFront distribution

We start by opening our AWS management console and navigating to the CloudFront section. Once there, we click on the Create Distribution button to begin the process:

  1. In Step 1, we will be able to select either a Web or RTMP distribution. In our example of caching the static website, we will select the Web distribution, but an RTMP one can be selected when delivering content using the Adobe Flash Media...