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AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty Exam Guide

By : Marko Sluga
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AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty Exam Guide

3 (1)
By: Marko Sluga

Overview of this book

Amazon has recently come up a with specialty certifications which validates a particular user's expertise that he/she would want to build a career in. Since the Cloud market now demands of AWS networking skills this becomes the most wanted certification to upheld ones industry portfolio. This book would be your ideal companion to getting skilled with complex and creative networking solutions. Cloud practitioners or associate-level certified individuals interested in validating advanced skills in networking can opt for this practical guide. This book will include topics that will help you design and implement AWS and hybrid IT network architectures along with some network automation tasks. You will also delve deep into topics that will help you design and maintain network architecture for all AWS services. Like most of our certification guides this book will also follow a unique approach of testing your learning with chapter-level practice exercises and certification-based mock tests. The exam mock tests will help you gauge whether you are ready to take the certification exam or not. This book will also be an advanced guide for networking professionals to enhance their networking skills and get certified. By the end of this book, you will be all equipped with AWS networking concepts and techniques and will have mastered core architectural best practices.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Introduction
3
Section 2: Managing Networks in AWS
7
Section 3: Managing and Securing Network-Attached Platform Services in AWS
12
Section 4: Monitoring and Operating the AWS Networks
14
Section 5: Network automation in AWS
16
Section 6: The Exam

Introduction to API Gateway

The API Gateway service is a fully managed solution from AWS that gives developers the ability to create highly scalable and highly secure API endpoints. The service is designed with the developer in mind and makes it very easy to write and deploy API endpoints straight out of the Management Console.

With API Gateway, we can expose different types of applications running in AWS EC2 or ECS to the internet and allow for direct communication with any HTTP/HTTPS-enabled managed services such as S3 or DynamoDB. The service also gives us the ability to create an API that will send queries to a Lambda function. Lambda functions are not exposed to the internet so API Gateway provides an entry point to the Lambda environment as well. Additionally, we can expose services completely external to AWS in our on-premises data center or anywhere on the internet.

The...