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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

Technical requirements

In this chapter, we will create an IAM user that will allow us to interact from an administrative point of view with the message queue. To avoid friction with this process, let's use the following script: http://bit.ly/2P3Rj6y.

Make sure to download the trust policy file, trust-policy-for-sqs.json, in the same path where you executed the previous shell from: http://bit.ly/2nDrUnM.

It is assumed that the key pair has been configured for the AWS CLI and that you have administrator access to create IAM users. Execute the following command:

chmod +x && ./create-sqs-user-and-role.sh

The script will perform the following tasks:

  • Create the sqs-user
  • Create a key pair for the sqs-user
  • Configure the [sqs-user] profile in ~/.aws/credentials
  • Create a service role for EC2
  • Create an instance profile for EC2
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