▶Book Description
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the current leader in the public cloud market. With an increasing global interest in leveraging cloud infrastructure, the AWS Cloud by Amazon offers a cutting-edge platform for architecting, building, and deploying web-scale cloud applications. As the rate of cloud platform increases, so does the need for cloud certification.
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Guide is the ideal choice to help you gain certification. The book starts off by strengtheningyour foundation of what AWS is and its prerequisites. Following this introduction, you'll get insights into the various types of AWS services such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), which will help you understand the core Amazon services. Further into the chapters, you will delve into aspects of how to design and deploy highly scalable applications. To test your knowledge and the skills you've acquired, the book's concluding chapters will wind up with a section on security concepts along with AWS best practices and mock papers.
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.
▶What You Will Learn
⦁ Explore AWS terminology and identity and access management
⦁ Get to grips with important cloud services and features in categories such as compute, network, storage, and databases
⦁ Define access control to secure AWS resources and set up efficient monitoring
⦁ Back up your database and ensure high availability by understanding all database-related services in the AWS Cloud
⦁ Integrate AWS with your applications to meet and exceed non-functional requirements
⦁ Build and deploy cost-effective and highly available applications
▶Key Features
⦁ Build highly reliable and scalable workloads on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform
⦁ Pass the exam in less time and with confidence, thanks to mock tests
⦁ Get up and running with developing and managing applications on the AWS platform
▶Who This Book Is For
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect –Associate Guide is ideal if you are an IT professional or Solutions Architect wanting to pass the AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate 2018 exam. This book is also suitable for developers looking to start building scalable applications on AWS.
▶What this book covers
⦁ Chapter 1, Introducing Amazon Web Services, in this chapter, the Amazon Web Services provides a very rich feature set of services and this chapter will take the readers through fundamentals concepts of AWS concepts. This will include information about what AWS Cloud is, how it enables large organizations and small start-ups to leverage enterprise class infrastructure.
⦁ Chapter 2, AWS Global Infrastructure Overview, this chapter will teach the readers about the AWS Global infrastructure, the service endpoints and partitions, availability zones, regions, edge locations and how the interact with high availability patterns and resilient designs. This chapter will also cover replication and synchronization of data at a global scale with a special focus on security.
⦁ Chapter 3, Elasticity and Scalability Concepts, this chapter will teach the readers how to match capacity and demand, design cost efficient solutions and understand how this two concepts play a role in Cloud Architecture. We'll focus on Demand, Buffer and Time based approaches, automation and serverless implementations.
⦁ Chapter 4, Hybrid Cloud Architectures, this chapter will teach the readers how to integrate cloud services, deploy new applications and interconnect and extend existing infrastructure to the cloud. Use application services as message queues, publisher subscriber, API Gateway and lambda as a bridge as a adapter.
⦁ Chapter 5, Resilient Patterns, this chapter will teach the readers how to avoid complete service failures by absorbing the operational impact of a service failure by loosely coupling components and services. To inject failure in our systems to make them fault tolerant and exposing failure paths. To design reactive autonomous monitoring systems in the cloud.
⦁ Chapter 6, Event Driven and Stateless Architectures, this chapter will teach the readers how to design workflows like ETL and image processing leveraging storage and processing using lambda. You will understand the pros and cons about maintaining servers and using PaaS and abstract services like S3 and DynamoDB.
⦁ Chapter 7, Integrating Application Services, the chapter will teach the readers how to integrate services like authentication, mobile backends, messaging and persistence to their apps. You will use Backend as a Service (BaaS) to decouple front end and middleware and to use 3rd party service providers.
⦁ Chapter 8, Disaster Recovery Strategies, the chapter will teach the readers what are the main patterns in DR strategies using the cloud. The reader will learn to implement successfully backup and restore, use pilot light and multi site active - active scenarios. You will be guided on how to implement a full DR exercise in a hybrid environment.
⦁ Chapter 9, Storage Options, the chapter will teach the readers the different storage options available, to evaluate durability, cost, performance size and management tasks of each one. You will compare hot and cold solutions and examples of EBS, S3, Glacier, RedShift and DynamoDB.
⦁ Chapter 10, Matching Supply and Demand, the chapter will teach the readers how to optimize for cost, use optimal resources on every layer. Work with AutoScaling and resize RDS databases with CloudWatch alarms.
⦁ Chapter 11, Introducing Amazon Elastic MapReduce, this chapter will teach the readers get insight about Elastic Map Reduce, the use cases and how to design clusters for High Performance Computing on EC2. Profiling your instances to maximize throughput and optimize network resources.
⦁ Chapter 12, Web Scale Applications, the chapter will teach the readers how to build massive applications that reach millions of users, with high levels of concurrency. Offload your backends with cache technologies like CloudFront and ElasticCache and NoSQL datastores.
⦁ Chapter 13, Understanding Access Control, the chapter will teach the readers to get familiar about the main security objectives, use granular control access for your users and applications. Learn about the security best practices and permission management through IAM.
⦁ Chapter 14, Encryption and Key Management, the chapter will teach the readers how encryption works in the cloud, use custom means to encrypt sensitive information and leverage encryption mechanisms from different AWS services and how to integrate with the Marketplace solutions to design robust security schemes and be compliant with several international standards, regulations and frameworks.
⦁ Chapter 15, An Overview of Security and Compliance Services, the chapter will provide an overview of some of the key AWS services that are used to secure, protect and govern data and resources within an AWS environment. It will define what each service is used for and the components that are used within each.
⦁ Chapter 16, AWS Security Best Practices, the chapter will teach the readers how to implement the AWS security reference model and get an in depth analysis of every service and configuration used to protect your application and data.
⦁ Chapter 17, Web Application Security, the chapter will teach the readers how to protect web applications, take a proactive standpoint for application design. You will learn how to avoid Cross Site Scripting, Man in the middle attacks and data integrity loss.
⦁ Chapter 18, Cost Effective Resources, the chapter will teach the readers how to design cost efficient resources and optimize services to improve ROI. Build custom cost reports with custom tags and use consolidated billing with multiple accounts. Create budgets and alarms to avoid unexpected charges.
⦁ Chapter 19, Working with Infrastructure as Code, the chapter will teach the readers how manage infrastructure using a set of tools, practices and thinking as software to gain consistency, flexibility, reusability and many advantages of this paradigm. We will work with CloudFormation and introduce you to OpsWorks, also will talk about many of the tools available in the industry that will help you manage configurations and infrastructure.
⦁ Chapter 20, Automation with AWS, the chapter will continue on the previous one demonstrating how automation help industries achieve more with less, how deployment strategies can help in consistency, availability and continuity of business. We show how to automate response to application logs, CloudTrail and Configuration Changes through AWS Config.
⦁ Chapter 21, Introduction to DevOps in AWS, the chapter will explain the principles, processes, toolchain and culture behind this practice. We'll take a holistic approach to apply SCM, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD).
⦁ Chapter 22, Mock Test 1, in this chapter, readers will get the hands-on experience of the real time certification exam which will cover questions from the above stated services and which will make them confident about clearing the associate exam with the help of important tips and tricks.
⦁ Chapter 23, Mock Test 2, in this chapter, readers will get the hands-on experience of the real time certification exam which will cover questions from the above stated services and which will make them confident about clearing the associate exam with the help of important tips and tricks.
