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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

RDS encryption

When using Amazon RDS, there may be times when the data held within your database needs to encrypted due to its sensitivity. When RDS encryption is enabled, which uses the AES-256 algorithm, it ensures that all underlying storage that's used is encrypted, along with all associated read-replicas, automated backups, and snapshots, following the enablement without any further configuration needed.

RDS encryption is offered at rest and is easily enabled by using the following database engines:

  • Amazon Aurora
  • MySQL
  • MariaDB
  • PostgreSQL
  • Oracle
  • Microsoft SQL Server

How to enable encryption

As an example, to configure encryption for Amazon Aurora, you can perform the following steps:

  1. Select Amazon RDS from the...