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  ABOUT THE AWS SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT CERTIFICATION

  The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) certification is intended for individuals who perform in a solutions architect role. The exam validates a candidate's ability to use AWS technologies to design solutions based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

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  Autorentext

  BEN PIPER is an IT consultant who has created more than 30 educational courses covering Amazon Web Services, networking, and automation. Learn more about Ben from his website at www.benpiper.com. DAVID CLINTON is a system administrator, teacher, and writer. He has created training material for subjects including Linux systems, cloud computing (AWS in particular), and container technologies like Docker. David has written books on AWS, Linux administration, and server virtualization. Many of his video training courses can be found on Pluralsight.com.

  Inhalt

  Introduction xxv

  Assessment Test *xxxi*

  Answers to Assessment Test xxxvii

  Part I The Core AWS Services 1

  Chapter 1 Introduction to Cloud Computing and AWS 3

  Cloud Computing and Virtualization 4

  Cloud Computing Architecture 4

  Cloud Computing Optimization 5

  The AWS Cloud 6

  AWS Platform Architecture 10

  AWS Reliability and Compliance 13

  The AWS Shared Responsibility Model 13

  The AWS Service Level Agreement 14

  Working with AWS 14

  AWS Organizations 14

  AWS Control Tower 15

  AWS Service Catalog 15

  AWS License Manager 16

  AWS Artifact 16

  The AWS cli 16

  AWS SDKs 17

  Technical Support and Online Resources 17

  Support Plans 17

  Other Support Resources 18

  Migrating Existing Resources to AWS 18

  AWS Migration Hub 19

  AWS Application Migration Service 19

  AWS Database Migration Service 19

  AWS Application Discovery Service 20

  Summary 20

  Exam Essentials 21

  Review Questions 22

  Chapter 2 Compute Services 25

  Introduction 26

  EC2 Instances 27

  Provisioning Your Instance 27

  Configuring Instance Behavior 32

  Placement Groups 33

  Instance Pricing 33

  Instance Life Cycle 34

  Resource Tags 35

  Service Limits 36

  EC2 Storage Volumes 36

  Elastic Block Store Volumes 36

  Instance Store Volumes 38

  Accessing Your EC2 Instance 39

  Securing Your EC2 Instance 41

  Security Groups 41

  IAM Roles 41

  NAT Devices 42

  Key Pairs 42

  EC2 Auto Scaling 43

  Launch Configurations 43

  Launch Templates 43

  Auto Scaling Groups 45

  Auto Scaling Options 46

  AWS Systems Manager 49

  Actions 50

  Insights 52

  AWS Systems Manager Inventory 53

  Running Containers 54

  Amazon Elastic Container Service 54

  Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service 55

  Other Container- Oriented Services 55

  AWS CLI Example 56

  Summary 57

  Exam Essentials 58

  Review Questions 60

  Chapter 3 AWS Storage 67

  Introduction 68

  S3 Service Architecture 69

  Prefixes and Delimiters 69

  Working with Large Objects 69

  Encryption 71

  Logging 71

  S3 Durability and Availability 72

  Durability 72

  Availability 73

  Eventually Consistent Data 73

  S3 Object Life Cycle 74

  Versioning 74

  Life Cycle Management 74

  Accessing S3 Objects 75

  Access Control 75

  Presigned URLs 77

  Static Website Hosting 77

  Amazon S3 Glacier 79

  Storage Pricing 80

  Other Storage- Related Services 81

  Amazon Elastic File System 81

  Amazon FSx 81

  AWS Storage Gateway 81

  AWS Snow Family 82

  AWS DataSync 82

  AWS CLI Example 83

  Summary 84

  Exam Essentials 85

  Review Questions 86

  Chapter 4 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 91

  Introduction 92

  VPC CIDR Blocks 92

  Secondary CIDR Blocks 93

  IPv6 CIDR Blocks 93

  Subnets 95

  Subnet CIDR Blocks 96

  Availability Zones 97

  IPv6 CIDR Blocks 99

  Elastic Network Interfaces 99

  Primary and Secondary Private IP Addresses 100

  Attaching Elastic Network Interfaces 100

  Enhanced Networking 101

  Internet Gateways 102

  Route Tables 102

  Routes 103

  The Default Route 104

  Security Groups 106

  Inbound Rules 106

  Outbound Rules 107

  Sources and Destinations 108

  Stateful Firewall 108

  Default Security Group 109

  Network Access Control Lists 110

  Inbound Rules 110

  Outbound Rules 113

  Using Network Access Control Lists and Security Groups Together 114

  AWS Network Firewall 115

  Public IP Addresses 115

  Elastic IP Addresses 116

  AWS Global Accelerator 118

  Network Address Translation 119

  Network Address Translation Devices 120

  Configuring Route Tables to Use NAT Devices 121

  NAT Gateway 121

  NAT Instance 122

  AWS PrivateLink 123

  VPC Peering 123

  Hybrid Cloud Networking 124

  AWS Site- to- Site VPN 125

  AWS Transit Gateway 125

  AWS Direct Connect 133

  High- Performance Computing 134

  Elastic Fabric Adapter 135

  AWS ParallelCluster 136

  Summary 136

  Exam Essentials 137

  Review Questions 138

  Chapter 5 Database Services 143

  Introduction 144

  Relational Databases 144

  Columns and Attributes 144

  Using Multiple Tables 145

  Structured Query Language 146

  Online Transaction Processing vs. Online Analytic Processing 147

  Amazon Relational Database Service 148

  Database Engines 148

  Licensing Considerations 149

  Database Option Groups 150

  Database Instance Classes 150

  Storage 151

  Read Replicas 154

  High Availability (Multi- AZ) 155

  Single- Master 156

  Multi- Master 157

  Backup and Recovery 157

  Automated Snapshots 157

  Maintenance Items 158

  Amazon RDS Proxy 158

  Amazon Redshift 159

  Compute Nodes 159

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