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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

AWS Shield

AWS Shield is accessed from within the same dashboard as AWS WAF and again is used to protect your web application infrastructure. AWS Shield is used to protect your infrastructure from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. There are different types of DDoS attacks, but the end goal is always the same, to significantly impact the performance and ability of the targeted web servers. This strain on resources prevents any genuine web request from being processed by your infrastructure due to the effort required to process the bad requests. This performance hit can be so severe that your website or application can appear to be offline.

DDoS

There are different types of DDoS attacks which AWS Shield can mitigate...