The RDS service supports creating database snapshots (sometimes also called database backups), which are point-in-time copies of a complete volume where the database resides. The snapshots are created incrementally, meaning that only the blocks of the volume that have changed since the last snapshot are saved to the next snapshot. This essentially means that the same characteristics apply to RDS snapshots as EC2 snapshots, with one exception: when creating an RDS snapshot, the instance I/O will be frozen due to the fact that the RDS snapshots need to be consistent and can be used as ACID-compliant backups of your database. This will mean that, when using a single instance, the instance will become unavailable for anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes while the snapshot is being taken, depending on the size of the data in the snapshot being...
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator ??? Associate Guide
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Overview of this book
AWS certifications are becoming one of the must have certifications for any IT professional working on an AWS Cloud platform. This book will act as your one stop preparation guide to validate your technical expertise in deployment, management, and operations on the AWS platform. Along with exam specific content this book will also deep dive into real world scenarios and hands-on instructions.
This book will revolve around concepts like teaching you to deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS. You will also learn to migrate an existing on-premises application to AWS. You get hands-on experience in selecting the appropriate AWS service based on compute, data, or security requirements. This book will also get you well versed with estimating AWS usage costs and identifying operational cost control mechanisms.
By the end of this book, you will be all prepared to implement and manage resources efficiently on the AWS cloud along with confidently passing the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam.
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Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Overview of AWS Certified SysOps Administrators and Associated Certification
The Fundamentals of Amazon Web Services
Managing AWS Security with Identity and Access Management
Networking with the Virtual Private Cloud
Managing Servers on AWS with Elastic Compute Cloud
Handling Server Traffic with Elastic Load Balancing
Understanding Simple Storage Service and Glacier
Understanding Content Distribution with CloudFront
AWS Storage Options
Working with the Route 53 Domain Name System
Working with Relational Database Services
Introduction to ElastiCache
Amazon DynamoDB - A NoSQL Database Service
Working with Simple Queue Service
Handling Messaging with Simple Notification Service
Getting Started with Simple Workflow Service
Overview of AWS Lambda
Monitoring Resources with Amazon CloudWatch
Understanding Elastic Beanstalk
Automation with the CloudFormation Service
Cloud Orchestration with OpsWorks
Exam Tips and Tricks
Mock Tests
Assessments
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