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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