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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)

Components of the SWF

The SWF is designed to be simple to use and design straight out of the management console. The service itself has some basic concepts that we need to understand before we can start designing our workflows. We are going to take a look at the following concepts:

  • Workflows
  • Workflow execution history
  • Activities and tasks
  • Actors
  • Domains
  • Object identifiers
  • Task lists
  • The workflow life cycle and execution closure
  • Polling for tasks
  • Endpoints

Workflows

The workflow represents our business process in the SWF. The workflow contains activities and tasks that need to be completed. It will include all of the orchestration logic that connects the activities together, which defines what kind of actions need to...