Description

Book Synopsis


Table of Contents

Introduction xxiii

Assessment Test xxix

Chapter 1 The Cloud 1

What Is Cloud Computing? 2

Highly Available and Scalable Resources 2

Professionally Secured Infrastructure 3

Metered Payment Model 3

Server Virtualization: The Basics 4

Cloud Platform Models 5

Infrastructure as a Service 5

Platform as a Service 5

Software as a Service 5

Serverless Workloads 6

Scalability and Elasticity 6

Scalability 7

Elasticity 7

Summary 8

Exam Essentials 9

Review Questions 10

Chapter 2 Understanding Your AWS Account 13

The Free Tier 14

How Does the Free Tier Work? 15

Tracking Your Free Tier Usage 15

What’s Available Under the Free Tier? 17

Product Pricing 18

Finding AWS Pricing Documentation 18

Working with the AWS Pricing Calculator 19

Service Limits 21

Billing and Cost Management 21

The AWS Billing Dashboard 21

AWS Budgets 22

Monitoring Your Costs 23

AWS Organizations 24

Summary 24

Exam Essentials 24

Review Questions 26

Chapter 3 Getting Support on AWS 29

Support Plans 30

Support Plan Pricing 30

The Basic Support Plan 32

The Developer Support Plan 33

The Business Support Plan 33

The Enterprise Support Plan 33

AWS Professional Services 34

Documentation and Online Help 34

Documentation 34

Discussion Forums 36

Trusted Advisor 37

Summary 39

Exam Essentials 39

Review Questions 40

Chapter 4 Understanding the AWS Environment 45

AWS Global Infrastructure: AWS Regions 46

Regionally Based Services 48

Globally Based Services 49

Service Endpoints 50

AWS Global Infrastructure: Availability Zones 50

Availability Zone Designations 51

Availability Zone Networking 52

Availability Zones and High Availability 52

AWS Global Infrastructure: Edge Locations 53

Edge Locations and CloudFront 54

Regional Edge Cache Locations 55

AWS Global Infrastructure: Extending the Cloud 55

AWS Outposts 55

AWS Local Zones 56

AWS Wavelength 56

The AWS Shared Responsibility Model 56

Managed Resources 58

Unmanaged Resources 58

Service Health Status 58

AWS Acceptable Use Policy 59

Summary 59

Exam Essentials 60

Review Questions 61

Chapter 5 Securing Your AWS Resources 65

AWS Identity and Access Management 66

Protecting the Root User 66

Authentication 67

Users, Groups, and Roles 70

Providing Federated Access 72

Credential Report 73

Encryption 73

Regulatory Compliance (AWS Artifact) 74

Other AWS Security and Compliance Tools 74

Summary 75

Exam Essentials 76

Review Questions 77

Chapter 6 Working with Your AWS Resources 81

The AWS Management Console 82

Accessing the AWS Management Console 83

Opening a Service Console 85

Working with Shortcuts 85

Selecting a Region 85

The Account Name Menu 87

Resource Groups 88

Tag Editor 89

Tagging Strategies 90

The AWS Console Mobile Application 91

The AWS Command- Line Interface 95

Requirements 96

Installation 97

Software Development Kits 99

Mobile Software Development Kits 99

Internet of Things Device Software Development Kits 100

CloudWatch 100

CloudWatch Metrics 101

CloudWatch Alarms 101

CloudWatch Dashboards 102

CloudWatch Logs 102

CloudWatch Events 104

CloudTrail 104

API and Non- API Events 105

Management and Data Events 105

Event History 105

Trails 106

Log File Integrity Validation 106

Cost Explorer 106

Cost and Usage 106

Reservation Reports 108

Reserved Instance Recommendations 109

AWS Billing Conductor 110

AWS Config 111

The Configuration Recorder, Items, and History 111

Configuration Snapshots 112

Managed and Custom Rules 112

AWS Control Tower 112

AWS License Manager 112

Summary 113

Exam Essentials 113

Review Questions 115

Chapter 7 The Core Compute Services 119

Deploying Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Servers 120

Amazon Machine Images 120

Understanding EC2 Instance Types 123

Server Storage: Elastic Block Store and Instance Store Volumes 124

Understanding EC2 Pricing Models 125

Simplified Deployments Through Managed Services 127

Amazon Lightsail 127

AWS Elastic Beanstalk 128

Deploying Container and Serverless Workloads 128

Containers 129

Serverless Functions 129

Summary 129

Exam Essentials 130

Review Questions 132

Chapter 8 The Core Storage Services 137

Simple Storage Service 138

Objects and Buckets 138

S3 Storage Classes 139

Access Permissions 142

Encryption 143

Versioning 144

Object Life-Cycle Configurations 144

S3 Glacier 145

Archives and Vaults 145

Retrieval Options 146

AWS Storage Gateway 146

File Gateways 147

Volume Gateways 147

Tape Gateways 147

AWS Snow Family 148

Snowcone 148

Snowball 148

Snowmobile 151

Other Storage- Related Services 151

AWS Transfer Family 151

Amazon FSx 151

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery 152

Summary 152

Exam Essentials 153

Review Questions 154

Chapter 9 The Core Database Services 159

Database Models 160

Relational Databases 160

Structured Query Language 162

Nonrelational (No- SQL) Databases 162

Amazon ElastiCache 163

Amazon MemoryDB 163

Amazon Relational Database Service 164

Database Engines 164

Licensing 164

Instance Classes 165

Scaling Vertically 166

Storage 166

Scaling Horizontally with Read Replicas 167

High Availability with Multi- AZ 167

Backup and Recovery 168

Determining Your Recovery Point Objective 168

Migrating Data to Your Database 168

DynamoDB 169

Items and Tables 169

Scaling Horizontally 170

Queries and Scans 170

Amazon Redshift 171

Analytics 172

Amazon Kinesis 172

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) 174

Amazon Elastic MapReduce 174

Amazon OpenSearch Service 175

AWS Data Exchange 175

Summary 175

Exam Essentials 176

Review Questions 178

Chapter 10 The Core Networking Services 183

Virtual Private Cloud 184

VPC CIDR Blocks 184

Subnets 185

Internet Access 186

Security Groups 186

Network Access Control Lists 186

VPC Peering 186

Virtual Private Networks 187

Direct Connect 187

AWS Global Accelerator 187

AWS Network Firewall 188

AWS Firewall Manager 188

AWS Web Application Firewall 188

Route 53 189

Resource Records 189

Domain Name Registration 189

Hosted Zones 190

Routing Policies 190

Health Checks 191

Traffic Flow and Traffic Policies 191

CloudFront 192

Summary 192

Exam Essentials 193

Review Questions 194

Chapter 11 Automating Your AWS Workloads 199

Automation 200

The Imperative Approach 200

The Declarative Approach 201

Infrastructure as Code 201

CloudFormation 201

Templates 202

Stacks 202

CloudFormation vs. the AWS cli 203

AWS Developer Tools 204

CodeCommit 204

CodeBuild 205

CodeDeploy 206

CodePipeline 207

CodeStar 208

CodeArtifact 209

EC2 Auto Scaling 210

Launch Configurations and Launch Templates 210

Auto Scaling Groups 210

Scaling Actions 211

Configuration Management 211

Systems Manager 212

OpsWorks 213

Summary 215

Exam Essentials 216

Review Questions 217

Chapter 12 Common Use- Case Scenarios 221

The Well- Architected Framework 222

Reliability 223

Performance Efficiency 223

Security 223

Cost Optimization 224

Operational Excellence 225

AWS Well- Architected Tool 225

A Highly Available Web Application Using Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing 226

Creating an Inbound Security Group Rule 227

Creating an Application Load Balancer 228

Creating a Launch Template 231

Creating an Auto Scaling Group 232

Static Website Hosting Using S 3 234

Machine Learning 236

Amazon Comprehend 237

Amazon Kendra 237

Amazon Lex 237

Amazon Rekognition 238

Amazon SageMaker 238

Amazon Textract 238

Amazon Transcribe 238

Amazon Translate 239

Summary 239

Exam Essentials 239

Review Questions 241

Appendix A Answers to Review Questions 245

Chapter 1: The Cloud 246

Chapter 2: Understanding Your AWS Account 246

Chapter 3: Getting Support on AWS 247

Chapter 4: Understanding the AWS Environment 249

Chapter 5: Securing Your AWS Resources 250

Chapter 6: Working with Your AWS Resources 252

Chapter 7: The Core Compute Services 254

Chapter 8: The Core Storage Services 255

Chapter 9: The Core Database Services 257

Chapter 10: The Core Networking Services 259

Chapter 11: Automating Your AWS Workloads 261

Chapter 12: Common Use- Case Scenarios 262

Appendix B Additional Services 265

Activate for Startups 266

Amazon EventBridge 266

AppStream 2.0 266

Athena 267

AWS Amplify 267

AWS AppSync 267

AWS Batch 267

AWS CloudShell 268

AWS Device Farm 268

AWS Step Functions 268

Backup 268

Cognito 269

Connect 269

Database Migration Service 269

Elastic File System 269

Elastic MapReduce 270

Glue 270

Inspector 270

IoT Core 270

IoT Greengrass 270

Iq 271

Kinesis 271

Macie 271

Managed Services (AMS) 271

Neptune 272

Simple Queue Service 272

WorkDocs 272

WorkSpaces 272

X- Ray 272

Index 273

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    Description

    Book Synopsis


    Table of Contents

    Introduction xxiii

    Assessment Test xxix

    Chapter 1 The Cloud 1

    What Is Cloud Computing? 2

    Highly Available and Scalable Resources 2

    Professionally Secured Infrastructure 3

    Metered Payment Model 3

    Server Virtualization: The Basics 4

    Cloud Platform Models 5

    Infrastructure as a Service 5

    Platform as a Service 5

    Software as a Service 5

    Serverless Workloads 6

    Scalability and Elasticity 6

    Scalability 7

    Elasticity 7

    Summary 8

    Exam Essentials 9

    Review Questions 10

    Chapter 2 Understanding Your AWS Account 13

    The Free Tier 14

    How Does the Free Tier Work? 15

    Tracking Your Free Tier Usage 15

    What’s Available Under the Free Tier? 17

    Product Pricing 18

    Finding AWS Pricing Documentation 18

    Working with the AWS Pricing Calculator 19

    Service Limits 21

    Billing and Cost Management 21

    The AWS Billing Dashboard 21

    AWS Budgets 22

    Monitoring Your Costs 23

    AWS Organizations 24

    Summary 24

    Exam Essentials 24

    Review Questions 26

    Chapter 3 Getting Support on AWS 29

    Support Plans 30

    Support Plan Pricing 30

    The Basic Support Plan 32

    The Developer Support Plan 33

    The Business Support Plan 33

    The Enterprise Support Plan 33

    AWS Professional Services 34

    Documentation and Online Help 34

    Documentation 34

    Discussion Forums 36

    Trusted Advisor 37

    Summary 39

    Exam Essentials 39

    Review Questions 40

    Chapter 4 Understanding the AWS Environment 45

    AWS Global Infrastructure: AWS Regions 46

    Regionally Based Services 48

    Globally Based Services 49

    Service Endpoints 50

    AWS Global Infrastructure: Availability Zones 50

    Availability Zone Designations 51

    Availability Zone Networking 52

    Availability Zones and High Availability 52

    AWS Global Infrastructure: Edge Locations 53

    Edge Locations and CloudFront 54

    Regional Edge Cache Locations 55

    AWS Global Infrastructure: Extending the Cloud 55

    AWS Outposts 55

    AWS Local Zones 56

    AWS Wavelength 56

    The AWS Shared Responsibility Model 56

    Managed Resources 58

    Unmanaged Resources 58

    Service Health Status 58

    AWS Acceptable Use Policy 59

    Summary 59

    Exam Essentials 60

    Review Questions 61

    Chapter 5 Securing Your AWS Resources 65

    AWS Identity and Access Management 66

    Protecting the Root User 66

    Authentication 67

    Users, Groups, and Roles 70

    Providing Federated Access 72

    Credential Report 73

    Encryption 73

    Regulatory Compliance (AWS Artifact) 74

    Other AWS Security and Compliance Tools 74

    Summary 75

    Exam Essentials 76

    Review Questions 77

    Chapter 6 Working with Your AWS Resources 81

    The AWS Management Console 82

    Accessing the AWS Management Console 83

    Opening a Service Console 85

    Working with Shortcuts 85

    Selecting a Region 85

    The Account Name Menu 87

    Resource Groups 88

    Tag Editor 89

    Tagging Strategies 90

    The AWS Console Mobile Application 91

    The AWS Command- Line Interface 95

    Requirements 96

    Installation 97

    Software Development Kits 99

    Mobile Software Development Kits 99

    Internet of Things Device Software Development Kits 100

    CloudWatch 100

    CloudWatch Metrics 101

    CloudWatch Alarms 101

    CloudWatch Dashboards 102

    CloudWatch Logs 102

    CloudWatch Events 104

    CloudTrail 104

    API and Non- API Events 105

    Management and Data Events 105

    Event History 105

    Trails 106

    Log File Integrity Validation 106

    Cost Explorer 106

    Cost and Usage 106

    Reservation Reports 108

    Reserved Instance Recommendations 109

    AWS Billing Conductor 110

    AWS Config 111

    The Configuration Recorder, Items, and History 111

    Configuration Snapshots 112

    Managed and Custom Rules 112

    AWS Control Tower 112

    AWS License Manager 112

    Summary 113

    Exam Essentials 113

    Review Questions 115

    Chapter 7 The Core Compute Services 119

    Deploying Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Servers 120

    Amazon Machine Images 120

    Understanding EC2 Instance Types 123

    Server Storage: Elastic Block Store and Instance Store Volumes 124

    Understanding EC2 Pricing Models 125

    Simplified Deployments Through Managed Services 127

    Amazon Lightsail 127

    AWS Elastic Beanstalk 128

    Deploying Container and Serverless Workloads 128

    Containers 129

    Serverless Functions 129

    Summary 129

    Exam Essentials 130

    Review Questions 132

    Chapter 8 The Core Storage Services 137

    Simple Storage Service 138

    Objects and Buckets 138

    S3 Storage Classes 139

    Access Permissions 142

    Encryption 143

    Versioning 144

    Object Life-Cycle Configurations 144

    S3 Glacier 145

    Archives and Vaults 145

    Retrieval Options 146

    AWS Storage Gateway 146

    File Gateways 147

    Volume Gateways 147

    Tape Gateways 147

    AWS Snow Family 148

    Snowcone 148

    Snowball 148

    Snowmobile 151

    Other Storage- Related Services 151

    AWS Transfer Family 151

    Amazon FSx 151

    AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery 152

    Summary 152

    Exam Essentials 153

    Review Questions 154

    Chapter 9 The Core Database Services 159

    Database Models 160

    Relational Databases 160

    Structured Query Language 162

    Nonrelational (No- SQL) Databases 162

    Amazon ElastiCache 163

    Amazon MemoryDB 163

    Amazon Relational Database Service 164

    Database Engines 164

    Licensing 164

    Instance Classes 165

    Scaling Vertically 166

    Storage 166

    Scaling Horizontally with Read Replicas 167

    High Availability with Multi- AZ 167

    Backup and Recovery 168

    Determining Your Recovery Point Objective 168

    Migrating Data to Your Database 168

    DynamoDB 169

    Items and Tables 169

    Scaling Horizontally 170

    Queries and Scans 170

    Amazon Redshift 171

    Analytics 172

    Amazon Kinesis 172

    Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) 174

    Amazon Elastic MapReduce 174

    Amazon OpenSearch Service 175

    AWS Data Exchange 175

    Summary 175

    Exam Essentials 176

    Review Questions 178

    Chapter 10 The Core Networking Services 183

    Virtual Private Cloud 184

    VPC CIDR Blocks 184

    Subnets 185

    Internet Access 186

    Security Groups 186

    Network Access Control Lists 186

    VPC Peering 186

    Virtual Private Networks 187

    Direct Connect 187

    AWS Global Accelerator 187

    AWS Network Firewall 188

    AWS Firewall Manager 188

    AWS Web Application Firewall 188

    Route 53 189

    Resource Records 189

    Domain Name Registration 189

    Hosted Zones 190

    Routing Policies 190

    Health Checks 191

    Traffic Flow and Traffic Policies 191

    CloudFront 192

    Summary 192

    Exam Essentials 193

    Review Questions 194

    Chapter 11 Automating Your AWS Workloads 199

    Automation 200

    The Imperative Approach 200

    The Declarative Approach 201

    Infrastructure as Code 201

    CloudFormation 201

    Templates 202

    Stacks 202

    CloudFormation vs. the AWS cli 203

    AWS Developer Tools 204

    CodeCommit 204

    CodeBuild 205

    CodeDeploy 206

    CodePipeline 207

    CodeStar 208

    CodeArtifact 209

    EC2 Auto Scaling 210

    Launch Configurations and Launch Templates 210

    Auto Scaling Groups 210

    Scaling Actions 211

    Configuration Management 211

    Systems Manager 212

    OpsWorks 213

    Summary 215

    Exam Essentials 216

    Review Questions 217

    Chapter 12 Common Use- Case Scenarios 221

    The Well- Architected Framework 222

    Reliability 223

    Performance Efficiency 223

    Security 223

    Cost Optimization 224

    Operational Excellence 225

    AWS Well- Architected Tool 225

    A Highly Available Web Application Using Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing 226

    Creating an Inbound Security Group Rule 227

    Creating an Application Load Balancer 228

    Creating a Launch Template 231

    Creating an Auto Scaling Group 232

    Static Website Hosting Using S 3 234

    Machine Learning 236

    Amazon Comprehend 237

    Amazon Kendra 237

    Amazon Lex 237

    Amazon Rekognition 238

    Amazon SageMaker 238

    Amazon Textract 238

    Amazon Transcribe 238

    Amazon Translate 239

    Summary 239

    Exam Essentials 239

    Review Questions 241

    Appendix A Answers to Review Questions 245

    Chapter 1: The Cloud 246

    Chapter 2: Understanding Your AWS Account 246

    Chapter 3: Getting Support on AWS 247

    Chapter 4: Understanding the AWS Environment 249

    Chapter 5: Securing Your AWS Resources 250

    Chapter 6: Working with Your AWS Resources 252

    Chapter 7: The Core Compute Services 254

    Chapter 8: The Core Storage Services 255

    Chapter 9: The Core Database Services 257

    Chapter 10: The Core Networking Services 259

    Chapter 11: Automating Your AWS Workloads 261

    Chapter 12: Common Use- Case Scenarios 262

    Appendix B Additional Services 265

    Activate for Startups 266

    Amazon EventBridge 266

    AppStream 2.0 266

    Athena 267

    AWS Amplify 267

    AWS AppSync 267

    AWS Batch 267

    AWS CloudShell 268

    AWS Device Farm 268

    AWS Step Functions 268

    Backup 268

    Cognito 269

    Connect 269

    Database Migration Service 269

    Elastic File System 269

    Elastic MapReduce 270

    Glue 270

    Inspector 270

    IoT Core 270

    IoT Greengrass 270

    Iq 271

    Kinesis 271

    Macie 271

    Managed Services (AMS) 271

    Neptune 272

    Simple Queue Service 272

    WorkDocs 272

    WorkSpaces 272

    X- Ray 272

    Index 273

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