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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)
22
Mock Test 1
23
Mock Test 2

An Overview of Security and Compliance Services

Understanding what each of the AWS security services does as a function is essential if you want to be able to be able to protect your infrastructure and applications as set out by the requirements within your security strategy.

Security is AWS's number one priority, and so, as a result, each security service has been designed and crafted with a specific objective. This chapter will look at a number of different services that focus on security and compliance at a high level, to enable you to select and architect the appropriate solution.

The services that will be discussed within this chapter include the following:

  • AWS CloudTrail
  • Amazon Inspector
  • AWS Trusted Advisor
  • AWS Systems Manager
  • AWS Config

There are a number of other security-focused services, and detailed information on these can be found within the following chapters...