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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Guide: The ultimate exam guide to AWS Solutions Architect certification Paperback – 31 October 2018
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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
- Introduction to Amazon Web Services
- AWS Global Infrastructure Overview
- Elasticity and Scalability Concepts
- Hybrid Cloud Architectures
- Resilient Patterns
- Event Driven and Stateless Architectures
- Integrating Application Services
- Disaster Recovery Strategies
- Storage Options
- Matching Supply and Demand
- Introducing Amazon Elastic MapReduce
- Web Scale Applications
- Understanding Access Control
- Encryption & Key Management
- Overview of Security and Compliance Services
- AWS Security best practices
- Web Application Security
- Cost Effective Resources
- Working with Infrastructure as Code
- Automation with AWS
- Introduction to the DevOps practice in AWS
- Mock Test 1
- Mock Test 2
- Print length626 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPackt Publishing
- Publication date31 October 2018
- Dimensions19.05 x 3.58 x 23.5 cm
- ISBN-101789130662
- ISBN-13978-1789130669
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About the Author
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.
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- Publisher : Packt Publishing (31 October 2018)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 626 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1789130662
- ISBN-13 : 978-1789130669
- Dimensions : 19.05 x 3.58 x 23.5 cm
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About the authors
I am currently the AWS Content Director at Cloud Academy (cloudacademy.com) where I have created over 150 courses reaching over 180,000 students. My 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.
I have written many Cloud security blogs and have taken part in a series of security webinars with leading AWS partners.
I am currently a member of the AWS Community Builder Program which provides technical resources, mentorship, and networking opportunities to AWS enthusiasts and emerging thought leaders who are passionate about sharing knowledge and connecting with the technical community.
I am also a certified expert for Experts Exchange for my public contributions regarding AWS and its services.
Gabriel Ramirez was born in Mexico City where he studied Systems Engineering, he has 14 years of experience in the tech industry and has a wide experience in software development and enterprise systems architecture; he achieved the Oracle Certified Master Enterprise Architect certification and he has been dedicated over the last 7 years to teaching becoming an Oracle University Delivery Instructor with a portfolio of more than 25 courses at the professional level.
He is an AWS Authorized Trainer for Amazon Web Services and Authorized Trainer for Google Cloud Platform. Currently he holds more than 30 certifications and the 9/9 of AWS like Solutions Architect - Associate, SysOps Administrator - Associate, Developer Associate. Solutions Architect - Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, Big Data Specialty, Security Specialty and Advanced Networking - Speciality.
Gabriel has delivered courses like: AWS Technical Essentials, Architecting on AWS, Advanced Architecting, Security Operations, DevOps Engineering, BigData on AWS, System Operations on AWS, Developing on AWS and Business Essentials. He has also delivered a Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) workshop and Solutions Architect Certification bootcamps.
In the last two years he has trained over 800 people, many of them achieved AWS certifications at all levels for countries like Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Guatemala and Costa Rica. He helped companies like T-Sytems Mexico to be recognized by AWS for having more than 100 certified solutions architect in one year. He provides conferences to universities and communities like the AWS User Groups for which he is the organizer for the principal cities in Mexico.
Currently he speaks at conferences, workshops and webinars for different communication channels, he have been speaker on subjects like Big Data and Serverless for Hackathons and AWS Summits.
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Gabriel Ramirez nació en la Ciudad de México en donde estudió la Ingeniería en Sistemas Computacionales, cuenta con 14 años de experiencia en el área de tecnología y cuenta con una amplia experiencia en el desarrollo de software y arquitectura de sistemas a nivel empresarial; logró la certificación como Oracle Certified Master Enterprise Architect y los últimos 7 años ha estado dedicado a la enseñanza tecnológica convirtiéndose en Oracle University Delivery Instructor entregando más de 25 cursos distintos a nivel professional.
Es AWS Authorized Trainer para Amazon Web Services y Authorized Trainer para Google Cloud Platform. Actualmente cuenta con más de 30 certificaciones logrando las 9/9 de AWS que comprenden AWS Solutions Architect - Associate, SysOps Administrator - Associate, Developer Associate. Solutions Architect - Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, Big Data Specialty, Security Specialty y Advanced Networking - Speciality.
Gabriel ha impartido cursos como: AWS Technical Essentials, Architecting on AWS, Advanced Architecting, Security Operations, DevOps Engineering, BigData on AWS, System Operations on AWS, Developing on AWS y Business Essentials. Ha brindado bootcamps de preparación para la certificación como Solutions Architect y Workshops de Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF).
Gabriel ha capacitado en los últimos dos años a más de 800 personas muchas de ellas alcanzando certificaciones a todos los niveles en AWS en países como México, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Guatemala y Costa Rica. Ayudo a empresas cómo T-Systems México a lograr un reconocimiento especial por certificar a más de 100 personas en un año. Brinda pláticas en universidades y comunidades como los User Groups de AWS en los cuales es el organizador para las principales ciudades de México.
Actualmente imparte seminarios, talleres y webinars por distintos medios de difusión, ha sido conferencista en temas como Big Data y Serverless para diversos eventos como Hackatons y Summits de AWS.
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Incluso teniendo buena experiencia con AWS; encontré que este libro está plagado de conocimiento y me sirvió para conocer más a fondo servicios que uso a diario y que creía ya tener dominados.


