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AWS Certified Solutions Architect ??? Associate Guide

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789130669
Pages 626 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (2):
Gabriel Ramirez Gabriel Ramirez
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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.
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Stuart Scott Stuart Scott
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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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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface Introducing 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 and Key Management An 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
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Dividing and conquering

If you have a complex problem, decompose it into individual, manageable parts; isolate them, and focus on unique strategies to avoid failure. This way, a component crash will not affect other components since you will be avoiding dependencies and providing insulating mechanisms to manage communication between layers; this is an architectural best practice.

Serial configuration

Serial configuration is a technique that provides a reference to calculate coupling when they have strong dependencies between each other. In order to understand the availability of two components, we have to calculate the individual value for each component; for example, a database instance (RDS) and its persistent storage (EBS...

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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.
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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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