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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
1
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

Connecting with Direct Connect

There are definite limitations when connecting over the internet with virtual devices. If we find that the throughput of a VGW does not meet our demand, or when running a huge VPN instance just wouldn't be economical, we have a better option that creates a fast, reliable, private link – AWS Direct Connect.

The following diagram shows how Direct Connect can be utilized to connect with AWS resources:

The connection between AWS and the customer is split into two different sections:

  • The connection between the AWS region and the Direct Connect location
  • The connection between the Direct Connect location and the customer location

When connecting to AWS with Direct Connect, we will need to deliver a device that will terminate the optical link between AWS and our equipment and install it into a designated Direct Connect location rack. From...