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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

Virtual Private Cloud

The Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is your own segment of the AWS cloud where you can deploy your resources and build solutions. Through the use of different subnets, route tables, and an internet gateway, you can configure your VPC to communicate with the internet, in addition to allowing traffic from the internet to access your resources, such as a web server.

The creation of your VPCs can be very simple, but understanding how traffic and boundaries are implemented is a security must. There are a variety of methods to control traffic and access to different network segments. To isolate and control network traffic, you should adopt as many of these options as possible

Using security groups to control access at an instance level

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