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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

Chapter 19: Protecting Data in Flight and at Rest

As you and your developers start to connect to your systems, security is not always front of mind. This is especially the case if you think that encryption keys and certificate handshakes could cause latency. Incorporating encryption both for data in transit and at rest is a must, especially in today's environments.

There are multiple ways to incorporate encryption into your environment. It can start with how to secure the transmissions you are sending back and forth between you and AWS. It then progresses to securing data that you are storing on the Amazon cloud and then moves on to data that you are serving for your customers to access.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:  

  • Understanding KMS keys
  • Adding encryption to storage
  • Adding encryption to data stores
  • Protecting data in transit with AWS Certificate Manager
  • Adding a certificate to Amazon CloudFront...