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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Guide

By : Rajesh Daswani
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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Guide

3 (1)
By: Rajesh Daswani

Overview of this book

Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud computing service provider in the world. Its foundational certification, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01), is the first step to fast-tracking your career in cloud computing. This certification will add value even to those in non-IT roles, including professionals from sales, legal, and finance who may be working with cloud computing or AWS projects. If you are a seasoned IT professional, this certification will make it easier for you to prepare for more technical certifications to progress up the AWS ladder and improve your career prospects. The book is divided into four parts. The first part focuses on the fundamentals of cloud computing and the AWS global infrastructure. The second part examines key AWS technology services, including compute, network, storage, and database services. The third part covers AWS security, the shared responsibility model, and several security tools. In the final part, you'll study the fundamentals of cloud economics and AWS pricing models and billing practices. Complete with exercises that highlight best practices for designing solutions, detailed use cases for each of the AWS services, quizzes, and two complete practice tests, this CLF-C01 exam study guide will help you gain the knowledge and hands-on experience necessary to ace the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Cloud Concepts
5
Section 2: AWS Technologies
16
Section 3: AWS Security
18
Section 4: Billing and Pricing
20
Chapter 16: Mock Tests

Chapter 12: Automation and Deployment on AWS

So far, you have learned how to configure and deploy various services on AWS. However, most of your configuration has been manual, with very little automation. For example, in Chapter 9, High Availability and Elasticity on AWS, you deployed an application in a multi-tier design. This consisted of application servers configured in an auto-scaling group, an application load balancer, a database to store application data, and an S3 bucket to host your source code. All of this was deployed in a private network in the form of Amazon VPC.

While building your application stack, you had to manually configure the various services on AWS with all the necessary resources to deploy your application. For example, with the VPC, you had to configure subnets, IP address ranges, security groups, NAT gateways, and much more. Now, imagine having to perform this sort of manual labor every time you need to create a new environment to host your applications...