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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator ??? Associate Guide

By : Marko Sluga
Book Image

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)

Managing Elastic Beanstalk environments

Once we have deployed an Elastic Beanstalk environment, we will of course have to operate and manage that environment. The Elastic Beanstalk environment is designed for developers in fast-paced DevOps teams who are conforming to Agile development strategies. This allows them to quickly iterate among the version of their application and deliver new functionality and fixes of their application with high velocity. We also have built-in recovery options. When updates don't perform as well as expected, we have the ability to easily roll the application version back to the previous version with several supported update strategies.

Managing application versions

A deployed environment in...