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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

Introduction to the DevOps practice in AWS

DevOps has become a widely adopted practice for every kind of company across industries, but, it's implementation is a real challenge that requires a set of best practices, the use of specific purpose tools, mature processes, and a collaborative team. In 2011, Jon Jenkins in a velocity video shared a median time between deployments inside AWS of 11.6 seconds in a work week; this is a really impressive metric and speaks about the maturity AWS has in the DevOps industry. AWS have created many of the services used today in the DevOps landscape, such as Code Commit, CodeDeploy, CodeBuild, and CodePipeline, to name a few. They have been battle tested at global scale and are available for every AWS customer.