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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)

Chapter 19 – Understanding Elastic Beanstalk

  1. True.
  2. True: you can see all the resources that EB creates in the respective parts of the management console.
  3. False: we can customize every part of the deployment by using the .ebextensions file.
  4. A .zip or .war file of a maximum size of 512 MB.
  5. 100 versions.
  6. Implement life-cycling with the application's age set to 30 days.
  7. Change the instance type in the configuration of the application. The application will be redeployed with the new instance type.
  8. Use all-at-once updates. The instances are deleted and new ones are created, which means there are no additional costs incurred by the update process.
  9. Use the blue/green approach, as this will allow you to have two production-grade parallel deployments running during the update. If the green environment doesn't perform well, you can instantly switch back to blue, thus maintain...