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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

Identity and Access Management

IAM is probably the most common security service of IAM, so many service integrate with IAM and the features that it provides, and so it makes perfect sense to ensure you are aware of some of the best practices from an access control perspective.

Avoid sharing identities

You should not share an IAM user identity among a shared group of users. This makes it very difficult from a security risk perspective, especially when an incident occurs as a result of an action that was carried out by that identity. It's easy to track what actions a user has carried out by analyzing the logs from CloudTrail. However, if this user is shared by multiple parties, it's not so easy to identify the individual...