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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator ??? Associate Guide

By : Marko Sluga
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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator ??? Associate Guide

By: Marko Sluga

Overview of this book

AWS certifications are becoming one of the must have certifications for any IT professional working on an AWS Cloud platform. This book will act as your one stop preparation guide to validate your technical expertise in deployment, management, and operations on the AWS platform. Along with exam specific content this book will also deep dive into real world scenarios and hands-on instructions. This book will revolve around concepts like teaching you to deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS. You will also learn to migrate an existing on-premises application to AWS. You get hands-on experience in selecting the appropriate AWS service based on compute, data, or security requirements. This book will also get you well versed with estimating AWS usage costs and identifying operational cost control mechanisms. By the end of this book, you will be all prepared to implement and manage resources efficiently on the AWS cloud along with confidently passing the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)

Building a custom VPC

When building a VPC according to your requirements, the first step would be to log in to the AWS console and choose the correct region. We have already discussed how to choose a region in Chapter 2, The Fundamentals of Amazon Web Services, under the Choosing availability zones and regions section. After logging in, we can search for VPC and select it. For ease of access to VPC management across regions, we can always remember the naming schema that AWS uses in their URL, which as the follows:

https://{region}.console.aws.amazon.com/vpc/home?region={region}

For example, the US East (Ohio) region is also referred to as us-east-2, so the URL for the Ohio region would be as follows:

https://us-east-2.console.aws.amazon.com/vpc/home?region=us-east-2

On the other hand, the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region is also referred to as ap-southeast-1, so the URL for Singapore...