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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

Summary

Implementing security best practices requires an understanding of the shared responsibility model; once you understand your responsibilities, you can begin to architect and implement additional levels of security throughout your environment. Adhering to best practices from the outset will significantly help to protect your data and resources from a wide variety of threats, risks, and exposures, both internally and externally.

This chapter has focused on some of the common security best practices, some of which may be referenced within the certification. Understanding the reasoning behind the best practice helps you to protect against the threat in a structured way.

New threats are being defined and exposed all the time, and so it's important to keep revisiting your security strategy, to ensure that it is still meeting all the requirements stipulated within your Information...