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This is your opportunity to take the next step in your career by expanding and validating your skills on the AWS cloud. AWS has been the frontrunner in cloud computing products and services, and the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Official Study Guide for the Associate exam will get you fully prepared through expert content, and real-world knowledge, key exam essentials, chapter review questions, access to Sybex's interactive online learning environment, and much more. This official study guide, written by AWS experts, covers exam concepts, and provides key review on exam topics, including:

Mapping Multi-Tier Architectures to AWS Services, such as web/app servers, firewalls, caches and load balancers
Understanding managed RDBMS through AWS RDS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, Aurora)
Understanding Loose Coupling and Stateless Systems
Comparing Different Consistency Models in AWS Services
Understanding how AWS CloudFront can make your application more cost efficient, faster and secure
Implementing Route tables, Access Control Lists, Firewalls, NAT, and DNS
Applying AWS Security Features along with traditional Information and Application Security
Using Compute, Networking, Storage, and Database AWS services
Architecting Large Scale Distributed Systems
Understanding of Elasticity and Scalability Concepts
Understanding of Network Technologies Relating to AWS
Deploying and Managing Services with tools such as CloudFormation, OpsWorks and Elastic Beanstalk.
Learn from the AWS subject-matter experts, review with proven study tools, and apply real-world scenarios. If you are looking to take the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam, this guide is what you need for comprehensive content and robust study tools that will help you gain the edge on exam day and throughout your career.



Table of Contents

Foreword xxvii
Introduction xxix

Assessment Test xxxvii

Chapter 1 Introduction to AWS 1

What Is Cloud Computing? 3

Advantages of Cloud Computing 3

Cloud Computing Deployment Models 5

AWS Fundamentals 6

Global Infrastructure 6

Security and Compliance 7

AWS Cloud Computing Platform 8

Accessing the Platform 9

Compute and Networking Services 9

Storage and Content Delivery 11

Database Services 13

Management Tools 13

Security and Identity 15

Application Services 16

Summary 17

Exam Essentials 17

Review Questions 19

Chapter 2 Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Glacier Storage 21

Introduction 23

Object Storage versus Traditional Block and File Storage 24

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Basics 25

Buckets 25

AWS Regions 25

Objects 26

Keys 26

Object URL 26

Amazon S3 Operations 27

REST Interface 27

Durability and Availability 28

Data Consistency 28

Access Control 28

Static Website Hosting 29

Amazon S3 Advanced Features 30

Prefixes and Delimiters 30

Storage Classes 30

Object Lifecycle Management 31

Encryption 32

Versioning 33

MFA Delete 33

Pre-Signed URLs 34

Multipart Upload 34

Range GETs 34

Cross-Region Replication 34

Logging 35

Event Notifications 35

Best Practices, Patterns, and Performance 36

Amazon Glacier 36

Archives 37

Vaults 37

Vaults Locks 37

Data Retrieval 37

Amazon Glacier versus Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) 37

Summary 38

Exam Essentials 39

Exercises 40

Review Questions 46

Chapter 3 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) 51

Introduction 53

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) 53

Compute Basics 53

Securely Using an Instance 56

The Lifecycle of Instances 59

Options 61

Instance Stores 65

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) 65

Elastic Block Store Basics 65

Types of Amazon EBS Volumes 66

Protecting Data 68

Summary 70

Exam Essentials 71

Exercises 73

Review Questions 81

Chapter 4 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) 85

Introduction 87

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) 87

Subnets 89

Route Tables 89

Internet Gateways 90

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Option Sets 92

Elastic IP Addresses (EIPs) 92

Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs) 93

Endpoints 93

Peering 94

Security Groups 95

Network Access Control Lists (ACLs) 97

Network Address Translation (NAT) Instances and NAT Gateways 98

NAT Instance 99

NAT Gateway 99

Virtual Private Gateways (VPGs), Customer Gateways (CGWs), and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) 100

Summary 101

Exam Essentials 103

Exercises 105

Review Questions 107

Chapter 5 Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon CloudWatch, and Auto Scaling 111

Introduction 112

Elastic Load Balancing 112

Types of Load Balancers 113

Listeners 114

Configuring Elastic Load Balancing 115

Amazon CloudWatch 117

Auto Scaling 119

Auto Scaling Plans 120

Auto Scaling Components 121

Summary 126

Exam Essentials 127

Exercises 128

Review Questions 131

Chapter 6 AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) 137

Introduction 138

Principals 140

Root User 140

IAM Users 140

Roles/Temporary Security Tokens 141

Authentication 143

Authorization 144

Policies 144

Associating Policies with Principals 145

Other Key Features 147

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) 147

Rotating Keys 148

Resolving Multiple Permissions 148

Summary 149

Exam Essentials 149

Exercises 150

Review Questions 154

Chapter 7 Databases and AWS 157

Database Primer 158

Relational Databases 159

Data Warehouses 160

NoSQL Databases 161

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) 161

Database (DB) Instances 162

Operational Benefits 163

Database Engines 164

Storage Options 166

Backup and Recovery 167

High Availability with Multi-AZ 169

Scaling Up and Out 170

Security 172

Amazon Redshift 172

Clusters and Nodes 173

Table Design 174

Loading Data 175

Querying Data 176

Snapshots 176

Security 176

Amazon DynamoDB 177

Data Model 178

Writing and Reading Data 181

Scaling and Partitioning 183

Security 185

Amazon DynamoDB Streams 185

Summary 186

Exam Essentials 187

Exercises 189

Review Questions 192

Chapter 8 SQS, SWF, and SNS 197

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) 198

Message Lifecycle 199

Delay Queues and Visibility Timeouts 200

Queue Operations, Unique IDs, and Metadata 201

Queue and Message Identifiers 201

Message Attributes 201

Long Polling 202

Dead Letter Queues 202

Access Control 202

Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF) 203

Workflows 204

Actors 204

Tasks 205

Task Lists 205

Long Polling 206

Object Identifiers 206

Workflow Execution Closure 206

Lifecycle of a Workflow Execution 206

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) 208

Common Amazon SNS Scenarios 209

Summary 211

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