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AWS Certified Solutions Architect ??? Associate Guide

By : Gabriel Ramirez, Stuart Scott
Book Image

AWS Certified Solutions Architect ??? Associate Guide

By: Gabriel Ramirez, Stuart Scott

Overview of this book

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently the leader in the public cloud market. With an increasing global interest in leveraging cloud infrastructure, the AWS Cloud from Amazon offers a cutting-edge platform for architecting, building, and deploying web-scale cloud applications. As more the rate of cloud platform adoption increases, so does the need for cloud certification. The AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate Guide is your one-stop solution to gaining certification. Once you have grasped what AWS and its prerequisites are, you will get insights into different types of AWS services such as Amazon S3, EC2, VPC, SNS, and more to get you prepared with core Amazon services. You will then move on to understanding how to design and deploy highly scalable applications. Finally, you will study security concepts along with the AWS best practices and mock papers to test your knowledge. By the end of this book, you will not only be fully prepared to pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam but also capable of building secure and reliable applications.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
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Mock Test 1
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Mock Test 2

Encryption and Key Management

A key element of AWS security is the ability to be able to encrypt sensitive and confidential data across different services, helping to ensure it's protected from those who should not have access to the plaintext data. Understanding different encryption methods within these services allows you to maintain the confidentiality of the data.

This chapter will focus on a number of key services and the encryption options that are available to use. As a part of this, the Key Management Service, known as KMS, will also be discussed in detail. This service allows you to control and manage encryption keys which can either be imported from your own KMS system or those that are generated by AWS itself. The KMS service is also integrated with many other AWS services.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • An overview of encryption
  • EBS encryption...