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AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty Exam Guide

By : Marko Sluga
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AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty Exam Guide

3 (1)
By: Marko Sluga

Overview of this book

Amazon has recently come up a with specialty certifications which validates a particular user's expertise that he/she would want to build a career in. Since the Cloud market now demands of AWS networking skills this becomes the most wanted certification to upheld ones industry portfolio. This book would be your ideal companion to getting skilled with complex and creative networking solutions. Cloud practitioners or associate-level certified individuals interested in validating advanced skills in networking can opt for this practical guide. This book will include topics that will help you design and implement AWS and hybrid IT network architectures along with some network automation tasks. You will also delve deep into topics that will help you design and maintain network architecture for all AWS services. Like most of our certification guides this book will also follow a unique approach of testing your learning with chapter-level practice exercises and certification-based mock tests. The exam mock tests will help you gauge whether you are ready to take the certification exam or not. This book will also be an advanced guide for networking professionals to enhance their networking skills and get certified. By the end of this book, you will be all equipped with AWS networking concepts and techniques and will have mastered core architectural best practices.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Introduction
3
Section 2: Managing Networks in AWS
7
Section 3: Managing and Securing Network-Attached Platform Services in AWS
12
Section 4: Monitoring and Operating the AWS Networks
14
Section 5: Network automation in AWS
16
Section 6: The Exam

Delivering advanced network security in AWS

Security groups, NACLs, and the operating system firewall offer us the ability to control the traffic to the OS, ENI, and the subnet with great flexibility. The control mechanisms provided by these three features rely on proven industry-standard stateless layer 3 firewall rules with NACLs, whereas security groups and the OS firewall allow for a stateful layer 4 firewall mechanism in the setup.

However, modern applications require that we maintain security at all the levels of the OSI layer. There are numerous commercial devices that are able to inspect and control traffic, as well as AWS's own features, such as the AWS WAF and AWS Shield, which provide us with the right tools.

In this section, we will take a look at the types of attacks and the advanced network security tools in AWS that will allow us to protect our environment...