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AWS Certified Solutions Architect ??? Associate Guide

By : Gabriel Ramirez, Stuart Scott
Book Image

AWS Certified Solutions Architect ??? Associate Guide

By: Gabriel Ramirez, Stuart Scott

Overview of this book

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently the leader in the public cloud market. With an increasing global interest in leveraging cloud infrastructure, the AWS Cloud from Amazon offers a cutting-edge platform for architecting, building, and deploying web-scale cloud applications. As more the rate of cloud platform adoption increases, so does the need for cloud certification. The AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate Guide is your one-stop solution to gaining certification. Once you have grasped what AWS and its prerequisites are, you will get insights into different types of AWS services such as Amazon S3, EC2, VPC, SNS, and more to get you prepared with core Amazon services. You will then move on to understanding how to design and deploy highly scalable applications. Finally, you will study security concepts along with the AWS best practices and mock papers to test your knowledge. By the end of this book, you will not only be fully prepared to pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam but also capable of building secure and reliable applications.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
22
Mock Test 1
23
Mock Test 2

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework – AWS CAF

The Cloud Adoption Framework offers six perspectives to help business and organizations to create an actionable plan for the change management associated with their cloud strategies. It is a way to align businesses and technology to produce successful results:

The CAF Action Plan template

The six perspectives are grouped as follows:

  • CAF business perspectives:
    • Business perspective: Aligns business and IT into a single model
    • People perspective: Personnel management to improve their cloud competencies
    • Governance perspective: Follows best practices to improve enterprise management and performance
  • CAF technical perspectives:
    • Platform perspective: Includes the strategic design, the principles, patterns, and tools to help you with the architecture transition process
    • Security perspective: Focuses on compliance and risk management to define security controls
    • Operations perspective: This perspective helps to identify the processes and stakeholders relevant to execute change management and business continuity