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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 OpsWorks

When there's a requirement for orchestration and automation that goes beyond what Elastic Beanstalk or CloudFormation can offer, then AWS OpsWorks is the right solution to choose. OpsWorks is a highly available, highly scalable, fully managed configuration management service that delivers a cloud-based Puppet Enterprise or Chef Automate environment. OpsWorks takes care of the installation, scaling, and high availability of the solution while we maintain the same level of access as with a standalone installation of either Chef or Puppet.

With OpsWorks, we get complete control within our operating system. We can control any aspect of the configuration, including the following:

  • Software, patch, and update installation
  • Controlling system configurations and operating system settings
  • Running scripts and applications
  • Performing regular maintenance jobs
  • ...