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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)
22
Mock Test 1
23
Mock Test 2

Summary

In this chapter, we learned the most important concepts about the AWS global infrastructure, the related aspects when choosing a geographic region, how Availability Zones work, and how to create a web distribution using CloudFront.

We hosted a static website in an S3 bucket, studied the consistency model under S3, and interacted with the CLI interface. We also implemented a disaster recovery solution replicating data between buckets using two AWS Regions. We tackled security aspects related to S3, such as ACLs, IAM policies, and versioning.

It is up to the student to recover data by simulating a loss of integrity in the origin bucket by deleting the original object, all the available versions, and the DELETE_MARKER (first delete the original object, then go to Versions | Show). Recover the object from the secondary region; you can help yourself using the aws s3 cp command...