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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)

Managing AWS Security with Identity and Access Management

In this chapter, we will be looking at the Identity and Access Management (IAM) component of AWS. We will learn how to design an environment that is secure and how to use IAM as an identity management tool for our virtual machine instances, as well as AWS services and platforms. We will also be looking at examples of how to manage IAM within the AWS console.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Overview of IAM
  • Managing access with IAM
  • Integration with external directories
  • IAM best practices