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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)

Summary

OpsWorks is a great solution when we require full control of our environments at all times. OpsWorks is fully compatible with Chef Automate cookbooks and recipes and Puppet Enterprise manifests and modules. The solution is fully managed, but also supports full customization as we are able to configure each and every aspect of the service to get the most out of the product. In this chapter, we have taken a look at the structure of the OpsWorks system and learned a bit about what each functional component of OpsWorks represents. The next chapter mainly deals with the tips and tricks we can use to prepare and pass the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam.