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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

Chapter 2: Fundamental AWS Services

Now that we have an understanding of the service principles and pillars that make up the best practices when using Amazon Web Services (AWS), it's time to look at some of the fundamental services that are used throughout the environments and accounts you will be working in. The fundamental services that we are referring to are compute services such as Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2), the global Domain Name System (DNS) service of Route 53, database services such as RDS and Aurora, and the advisory service of Trusted Advisor. This may seem like a review of services you are already familiar with if you have taken either the cloud practitioner, SysOps, or developer exams. However, since there is no longer a requirement to pass any of the lower associate exams before attempting (and passing) the DevOps professional test, it's not a bad idea to level-set on some of the basic services.

This is not meant to be an exhaustive look at these services...