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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)
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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

A brief look at the migration tools available from AWS

Many organizations are still in the beginning parts of their journey to the cloud. Yet, as they look at contracts that are up for renewal at their current data centers, there comes a pressing need for an expedited exit. Many of these companies are running their workloads these days not on bare metal servers but on virtualized server farms, using popular software products such as VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V.

Seeing the need to help customers move into the cloud quickly and easily, Amazon created SMS.

This service helps navigate many of the challenges that are presented when trying to move current workloads into the cloud.

Bringing your servers into AWS with SMS

SMS helps simplify the migration of multiple servers into the AWS cloud.

Using SMS helps you achieve the following:

  • It helps simplify the cloud migration process.
  • It allows you to orchestrate multi-server migrations.
  • It minimizes downtime...