Book Image

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification and Beyond

By : Adam Book
Book Image

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

Understanding the Shared Responsibility Model in AWS

Although we touched on it briefly in Chapter 1, Amazon Web Service Pillars, understanding the Shared Responsibility Model is imperative in order to work with the security of your account, and especially the IAM service.

The following diagram provides an overview of the model:

Figure 3.1 – AWS Shared Responsibility Model: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

The essence of this Shared Responsibility Model is about providing flexibility and customer control. With this model there are two major concepts, outlined as follows:

  • Who is responsible for security OF the cloud:

    This is where AWS holds the responsibility.

  • Who is responsible for security IN the cloud:

    This is where you as the customer hold the responsibility.

AWS controls the global infrastructure, which includes the data centers that host the servers running all of the AWS services. These data centers are run according to...