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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)
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Mock Test 1
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Mock Test 2

EBS encryption

The Elastic Block Store (EBS) service is AWS's answer to block-level storage and is used as persistent, reliable, and highly available storage that is attached to your EC2 instances. EBS offers built-in encryption options that allow you to easily implement encryption for data stored on these volumes. Due to the importance and criticality of data protection, EBS supports encryption across all EBS volumes types and ensures that there is no negative performance impact relating to your IOPS of the volume. Do be aware, however, that although encryption is possible across all volume types, it is not available across all instance types within those volume types.

For an up-to-date list of available instances, please go to the following link: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSEncryption.html#EBSEncryption_supported_instances.

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