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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
23
Mock Test 2

Security services

AWS has a dedicated category for their AWS security centric services within the AWS Management Console, and I am sure over time this list will continue to grow as new demands and threats are identified within the ever-growing field of cloud computing. At the time of writing this book, the category listing looks as follows:

To help you in the ever continuing task of securing your infrastructure its best practice to use these services where required, some of these services have been covered within this book and are accessed within the certification; others do not play as much of an active part for the Solution Architect - Associate. However, I feel it's good to have an awareness of what each of these services does at a high level to help with preparation and to be aware of the purpose of each security service:

  • IAM: The Identity and Access Management service...