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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification and Beyond

By : Adam Book
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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification and Beyond

By: Adam Book

Overview of this book

The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification is one of the highest AWS credentials, vastly recognized in cloud computing or software development industries. This book is an extensive guide to helping you strengthen your DevOps skills as you work with your AWS workloads on a day-to-day basis. You'll begin by learning how to create and deploy a workload using the AWS code suite of tools, and then move on to adding monitoring and fault tolerance to your workload. You'll explore enterprise scenarios that'll help you to understand various AWS tools and services. This book is packed with detailed explanations of essential concepts to help you get to grips with the domains needed to pass the DevOps professional exam. As you advance, you'll delve into AWS with the help of hands-on examples and practice questions to gain a holistic understanding of the services covered in the AWS DevOps professional exam. Throughout the book, you'll find real-world scenarios that you can easily incorporate in your daily activities when working with AWS, making you a valuable asset for any organization. By the end of this AWS certification book, you'll have gained the knowledge needed to pass the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer exam, and be able to implement different techniques for delivering each service in real-world scenarios.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
1
Section 1: Establishing the Fundamentals
7
Section 2: Developing, Deploying, and Using Infrastructure as Code
16
Section 3: Monitoring and Logging Your Environment and Workloads
21
Section 4: Enabling Highly Available Workloads, Fault Tolerance, and Implementing Standards and Policies
27
Section 5: Exam Tips and Tricks

Amazon EventBridge overview

Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event-driven bus that makes it easy to ingest and process data from a variety of sources. These sources include AWS services, your applications, and third-party SaaS providers. It removes the discord of writing point-to-point integrations between services. EventBridge is a managed service from AWS. This means that you don't need to worry about having to provision more or less of the service as your needs fall and rise. The EventBridge service takes care of this for you:

Figure 15.11 – AWS EventBridge flow from events to targets

An Event Source can be almost any of the AWS services, custom applications, or SaaS applications.

For SaaS applications, there is special support for partner applications called an Event Source. This Event Source provides a logical connection between the third-party SaaS provider and your AWS account, without the need to provision any cross-account IAM roles...