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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

AWS Security Best Practices

To help you configure, secure, and protect your AWS environment against both internal and external threats, there are a number of security best practices that you can adhere to that will help you maintain a high level of control across your environment. This chapter will focus on some of those best practices and how you can use them in your daily operations when running workloads across AWS.

I have always said that it is very easy to deploy resources within AWS, often with just a few simple clicks within the AWS Management Console, or a few commands run at the AWS CLI level. Either way, deploying the resources is the easy part, architecting and maintaining a strict level of access control, data protection, and availability is a different matter. Any data, service, or application running in AWS needs to be protected and secured if you want to minimize...