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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

Authenticating via access control methods

AWS offers the ability to access resources through a wide range of access control mechanisms, with an array of authentication methods. In this section, I want to cover some of them (that you will need to know about for the exam) in greater detail.

Usernames and passwords

I already mentioned IAM usernames and passwords, which are used to log in to your AWS account. These usernames are created by an administrator of IAM; at the same time, they will issue you with a password. Depending on how the administrator configured your account, you may be required to change your password upon the first successful authentication to AWS.

If no password policy has been configured, passwords for accounts...