AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Guide: The ultimate exam guide to AWS Solutions Architect certification

by Gabriel Ramirez, Stuart Scott

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789135800
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	10/31/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	626
File size:	59 MB
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About the Author

Stuart Scott is the AWS content lead at Cloud Academy where he has created over 40 courses reaching tens of thousands of students. His content focuses heavily on cloud security and compliance, specifically on how to implement and configure AWS services to protect, monitor and secure customer data in an AWS environment. He has written numerous cloud security blogs Cloud Academy and other AWS advanced technology partners. He has taken part in a series of cloud security webinars to share his knowledge and experience within the industry to help those looking to implement a secure and trusted environment. In January 2016 Stuart was awarded 'Expert of the Year' from Experts Exchange for his knowledge share within cloud services to the community. Gabriel Ramirez is a passionate technologist with a broad experience in the Software Industry, he currently works as an Authorized Trainer for Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud. He is holder of 9/9 AWS Certifications and does community work by organizing the AWS User Groups in Mexico.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Amazon Web Services
2. AWS Global Infrastructure Overview
3. Elasticity and Scalability Concepts
4. Hybrid Cloud Architectures
5. Resilient Patterns
6. Event Driven and Stateless Architectures
7. Integrating Application Services
8. Disaster Recovery Strategies
9. Storage Options
10. Matching Supply and Demand
11. Introducing Amazon Elastic MapReduce
12. Web Scale Applications
13. Understanding Access Control
14. Encryption & Key Management
15. Overview of Security and Compliance Services
16. AWS Security best practices
17. Web Application Security
18. Cost Effective Resources
19. Working with Infrastructure as Code
20. Automation with AWS
21. Introduction to the DevOps practice in AWS
22. Mock Test 1
23. Mock Test 2