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

Learn from AWS subject-matter experts, apply real-world scenarios and pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect -Associate exam

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.