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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator ??? Associate Guide

By : Marko Sluga
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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator ??? Associate Guide

By: Marko Sluga

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.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)

Working with messages

Sending, receiving, and deleting messages from the message queue can partially be done via the management console, but the most power can be achieved programmatically by using the AWS CLI or the SDKs. We will take a look at some examples in the management console and some in the AWS CLI.

Sending a message in a queue

Please perform the following steps:

  1. To send a message to the queue, we can simply choose Queue Actions in the management console and then select Send a Message. The same result can be achieved with the aws sqs send-message command, but for simplicity we will demonstrate only the management console in this example:
  1. In the Send a Message to markocloud dialog, where markocloud is the queue...