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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)

Creating a DynamoDB table

  1. To create a DynamoDB table, we can simply open up the DynamoDB Dashboard and select Create table:
  1. In the Create DynamoDB table dialog, we will need to assign a name and a primary key. Optionally, we can select Add sort key and add a sort key to our table if our data model requires it:
  1. We also have the ability to deselect Use default settings; this will give us the ability to customize the table while we are provisioning it. Customizing the table gives us the ability to select read/write capacity mode and create secondary indexes. To create a secondary index, click on +Add index:
  1. In the Add index dialog, we need to select the primary key. Using the same key would create a local secondary index, while adding a new primary key will add a global secondary index. We can also add a sort key to the table and we will of course have to name it. We can...