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AWS Certified Solutions Architect ??? Associate Guide

By : Gabriel Ramirez, Stuart Scott
Book Image

AWS Certified Solutions Architect ??? Associate Guide

By: Gabriel Ramirez, Stuart Scott

Overview of this book

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently the leader in the public cloud market. With an increasing global interest in leveraging cloud infrastructure, the AWS Cloud from Amazon offers a cutting-edge platform for architecting, building, and deploying web-scale cloud applications. As more the rate of cloud platform adoption increases, so does the need for cloud certification. The AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate Guide is your one-stop solution to gaining certification. Once you have grasped what AWS and its prerequisites are, you will get insights into different types of AWS services such as Amazon S3, EC2, VPC, SNS, and more to get you prepared with core Amazon services. You will then move on to understanding how to design and deploy highly scalable applications. Finally, you will study security concepts along with the AWS best practices and mock papers to test your knowledge. By the end of this book, you will not only be fully prepared to pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam but also capable of building secure and reliable applications.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
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Mock Test 1
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Mock Test 2

AWS Lambda

Lambda provides the container to run several runtimes like Python, Java, .NET Core, Go, and Node.js. With AWS Lambda, you can specify the resources that your application will need and it will be executed as a response to events or schedules.

  1. To get started with your first Lambda function, navigate to the Lambda service and choose Create a function, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. We will make use of the function Blueprints to create a faces detection function that uses Amazon Rekognition to extract metadata out of images uploaded to an S3 bucket. The final result will be a print to the standard output of the Lambda container that will be streamed to CloudWatch logs. The code performs an analysis trying to find image landmarks using machine learning.
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