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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)

Introduction to AWS Lambda

The AWS Lambda service is a fully managed, highly available and highly scalable, processing environment that allows us to process code written in multiple different programming languages without the need to run and configure any infrastructure.

When working with Lambda, the service will orchestrate the creation of the resources required to run our code. Everything from the allocation of resources, building the operating environment, the code interpreter, and the programming language runtimes will be made available by Lambda. All we need to do is bring our code and any dependencies to run it.

Packaging a function

To run our code, we need to package it in a ZIP or WAR file and then either upload...