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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification and Beyond

By : Adam Book
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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification and Beyond

By: Adam Book

Overview of this book

The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification is one of the highest AWS credentials, vastly recognized in cloud computing or software development industries. This book is an extensive guide to helping you strengthen your DevOps skills as you work with your AWS workloads on a day-to-day basis. You'll begin by learning how to create and deploy a workload using the AWS code suite of tools, and then move on to adding monitoring and fault tolerance to your workload. You'll explore enterprise scenarios that'll help you to understand various AWS tools and services. This book is packed with detailed explanations of essential concepts to help you get to grips with the domains needed to pass the DevOps professional exam. As you advance, you'll delve into AWS with the help of hands-on examples and practice questions to gain a holistic understanding of the services covered in the AWS DevOps professional exam. Throughout the book, you'll find real-world scenarios that you can easily incorporate in your daily activities when working with AWS, making you a valuable asset for any organization. By the end of this AWS certification book, you'll have gained the knowledge needed to pass the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer exam, and be able to implement different techniques for delivering each service in real-world scenarios.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
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Section 1: Establishing the Fundamentals
7
Section 2: Developing, Deploying, and Using Infrastructure as Code
16
Section 3: Monitoring and Logging Your Environment and Workloads
21
Section 4: Enabling Highly Available Workloads, Fault Tolerance, and Implementing Standards and Policies
27
Section 5: Exam Tips and Tricks

The various capabilities of AWS Systems Manager

DevOps is a marriage of two responsibilities: development and operations. AWS Systems Manager (SSM) focuses on the operations part of those responsibilities, giving you a vast array of tools to use for everyday operations tasks. These tools range from creating predefined runbooks to quickly, easily, and repetitively performing functions on your instances, whether they're Linux or Windows instances. Systems Manager can also provide you with an interface to track your resources or groups of resources from a common place.

As an added benefit, Systems Manager not only helps with your instances in the AWS Cloud, but it can also help manage your servers on-premises by installing the lightweight agent on those servers and allowing that agent to communicate back to the AWS account.

Key features and benefits of Systems Manager

Systems Manager is not just one service; instead, it is a whole set of tools for you to use. You may not...