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<p>Introduction xxi</p> <p>Assessment Test xxvii</p> <p><b>Chapter 1 The Cloud 1</b></p> <p>Introduction 2</p> <p>What Is Cloud Computing? 2</p> <p>Highly Available and Scalable Resources 2</p> <p>Professionally Secured Infrastructure 3</p> <p>Metered Payment Model 3</p> <p>Server Virtualization: The Basics 4</p> <p>Cloud Platform Models 5</p> <p>Infrastructure as a Service 5</p> <p>Platform as a Service 5</p> <p>Software as a Service 5</p> <p>Serverless Workloads 6</p> <p>Scalability and Elasticity 7</p> <p>Scalability 7</p> <p>Elasticity 7</p> <p>Summary 8</p> <p>Exam Essentials 9</p> <p>Review Questions 10</p> <p><b>Chapter 2 Understanding Your AWS Account 13</b></p> <p>Introduction 14</p> <p>The Free Tier 15</p> <p>How Does the Free Tier Work? 15</p> <p>Tracking Your Free Tier Usage 15</p> <p>What’s Available Under the Free Tier? 17</p> <p>Product Pricing 18</p> <p>Finding AWS Pricing Documentation 18</p> <p>Working with Online Calculators 19</p> <p>Service Limits 23</p> <p>Billing and Cost Management 23</p> <p>The AWS Billing Dashboard 24</p> <p>AWS Budgets 24</p> <p>Monitoring Your Costs 25</p> <p>AWS Organizations 26</p> <p>Summary 26</p> <p>Exam Essentials 27</p> <p>Review Questions 28</p> <p><b>Chapter 3 Getting Support on AWS 33</b></p> <p>Introduction 34</p> <p>Support Plans 34</p> <p>Support Plan Pricing 34</p> <p>The Basic Support Plan 36</p> <p>The Developer Support Plan 36</p> <p>The Business Support Plan 37</p> <p>The Enterprise Support Plan 37</p> <p>AWS Professional Services 37</p> <p>Documentation and Online Help 38</p> <p>Documentation 38</p> <p>Discussion Forums 40</p> <p>Trusted Advisor 40</p> <p>Summary 42</p> <p>Exam Essentials 43</p> <p>Review Questions 44</p> <p><b>Chapter 4 Understanding the AWS Environment 49</b></p> <p>Introduction 50</p> <p>AWS Global Infrastructure: AWS Regions 50</p> <p>Regionally Based Services 52</p> <p>Globally Based Services 53</p> <p>Service Endpoints 53</p> <p>AWS Global Infrastructure: Availability Zones 54</p> <p>Availability Zone Designations 54</p> <p>Availability Zone Networking 55</p> <p>Availability Zones and High Availability 56</p> <p>AWS Global Infrastructure: Edge Locations 57</p> <p>Edge Locations and CloudFront 58</p> <p>Regional Edge Cache Locations 59</p> <p>The AWS Shared Responsibility Model 59</p> <p>Managed Resources 60</p> <p>Unmanaged Resources 61</p> <p>Service Health Status 61</p> <p>AWS Acceptable Use Policy 61</p> <p>Summary 61</p> <p>Exam Essentials 62</p> <p>Review Questions 63</p> <p><b>Chapter 5 Securing Your AWS Resources 67</b></p> <p>Introduction 68</p> <p>AWS Identity and Access Management 68</p> <p>Protecting the Root User 69</p> <p>Authentication 69</p> <p>Users, Groups, and Roles 72</p> <p>Providing Federated Access 74</p> <p>Credential Report 75</p> <p>Encryption 75</p> <p>Regulatory Compliance (AWS Artifact) 76</p> <p>Summary 77</p> <p>Exam Essentials 77</p> <p>Review Questions 78</p> <p><b>Chapter 6 Working with Your AWS Resources 83</b></p> <p>Introduction 84</p> <p>The AWS Management Console 85</p> <p>Accessing the AWS Management Console 85</p> <p>Opening a Service Console 87</p> <p>Working with Shortcuts 88</p> <p>Selecting a Region 88</p> <p>The Account Name Menu 90</p> <p>Resource Groups 90</p> <p>Tag Editor 91</p> <p>Tagging Strategies 92</p> <p>The AWS Console Mobile Application 94</p> <p>The AWS Command Line Interface 98</p> <p>Requirements 99</p> <p>Installation 99</p> <p>Software Development Kits 101</p> <p>Mobile Software Development Kits 101</p> <p>Internet of Things Device Software Development Kits 102</p> <p>CloudWatch 103</p> <p>CloudWatch Metrics 103</p> <p>CloudWatch Alarms 104</p> <p>CloudWatch Dashboards 104</p> <p>CloudWatch Logs 105</p> <p>CloudWatch Events 106</p> <p>CloudTrail 107</p> <p>API and Non-API Events 107</p> <p>Management and Data Events 107</p> <p>Event History 108</p> <p>Trails 108</p> <p>Log File Integrity Validation 108</p> <p>Cost Explorer 109</p> <p>Cost and Usage 109</p> <p>Reservation Reports 111</p> <p>Reserved Instance Recommendations 112</p> <p>Summary 113</p> <p>Exam Essentials 113</p> <p>Review Questions 115</p> <p><b>Chapter 7 The Core Compute Services 119</b></p> <p>Introduction 120</p> <p>Deploying Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Servers 120</p> <p>Amazon Machine Images 120</p> <p>Understanding EC2 Instance Types 123</p> <p>Server Storage: Elastic Block Store and Instance</p> <p>Store Volumes 124</p> <p>Understanding EC2 Pricing Models 125</p> <p>Simplified Deployments Through Managed Services 127</p> <p>Amazon Lightsail 128</p> <p>AWS Elastic Beanstalk 128</p> <p>Deploying Container and Serverless Workloads 129</p> <p>Containers 129</p> <p>Serverless Functions 129</p> <p>Summary 130</p> <p>Exam Essentials 130</p> <p>Review Questions 132</p> <p><b>Chapter 8 The Core Storage Services 137</b></p> <p>Introduction 138</p> <p>Simple Storage Service 138</p> <p>Objects and Buckets 139</p> <p>S3 Storage Classes 139</p> <p>Access Permissions 142</p> <p>Encryption 143</p> <p>Versioning 143</p> <p>Object Life Cycle Configurations 144</p> <p>S3 Glacier 145</p> <p>Archives and Vaults 145</p> <p>Retrieval Options 145</p> <p>AWS Storage Gateway 146</p> <p>File Gateways 146</p> <p>Volume Gateways 146</p> <p>Tape Gateways 147</p> <p>AWS Snowball 147</p> <p>Hardware Specifications 148</p> <p>Security 148</p> <p>Snowball Edge 149</p> <p>Summary 150</p> <p>Exam Essentials 150</p> <p>Review Questions 152</p> <p><b>Chapter 9 The Core Database Services 157</b></p> <p>Introduction 158</p> <p>Database Models 158</p> <p>Relational Databases 159</p> <p>Structured Query Language 160</p> <p>Nonrelational (No-SQL) Databases 160</p> <p>Amazon Relational Database Service 161</p> <p>Database Engines 161</p> <p>Licensing 162</p> <p>Instance Classes 162</p> <p>Scaling Vertically 163</p> <p>Storage 163</p> <p>Scaling Horizontally with Read Replicas 164</p> <p>High Availability with Multi-AZ 164</p> <p>Backup and Recovery 165</p> <p>Determining Your Recovery Point Objective 165</p> <p>DynamoDB 166</p> <p>Items and Tables 166</p> <p>Scaling Horizontally 167</p> <p>Queries and Scans 167</p> <p>Amazon Redshift 168</p> <p>Summary 169</p> <p>Exam Essentials 170</p> <p>Review Questions 171</p> <p><b>Chapter 10 The Core Networking Services 175</b></p> <p>Introduction 176</p> <p>Virtual Private Cloud 176</p> <p>VPC CIDR Blocks 176</p> <p>Subnets 177</p> <p>Internet Access 178</p> <p>Security Groups 178</p> <p>Network Access Control Lists 178</p> <p>VPC Peering 179</p> <p>Virtual Private Networks 179</p> <p>Direct Connect 179</p> <p>Route 53 180</p> <p>Resource Records 180</p> <p>Domain Name Registration 180</p> <p>Hosted Zones 181</p> <p>Routing Policies 181</p> <p>Health Checks 182</p> <p>Traffic Flow and Traffic Policies 182</p> <p>CloudFront 183</p> <p>Summary 183</p> <p>Exam Essentials 184</p> <p>Review Questions 185</p> <p><b>Chapter 11 Automating Your AWS Workloads 189</b></p> <p>Introduction 190</p> <p>The Imperative Approach 190</p> <p>The Declarative Approach 191</p> <p>Infrastructure as Code 191</p> <p>CloudFormation 191</p> <p>Templates 192</p> <p>Stacks 192</p> <p>CloudFormation vs. the AWS CLI 193</p> <p>AWS Developer Tools 194</p> <p>CodeCommit 194</p> <p>CodeBuild 195</p> <p>CodeDeploy 196</p> <p>CodePipeline 197</p> <p>EC2 Auto Scaling 199</p> <p>Launch Configurations and Launch Templates 199</p> <p>Auto Scaling Groups 199</p> <p>Scaling Actions 200</p> <p>Configuration Management 200</p> <p>Systems Manager 200</p> <p>OpsWorks 201</p> <p>Summary 203</p> <p>Exam Essentials 204</p> <p>Review Questions 205</p> <p><b>Chapter 12 Common Use-Case Scenarios 209</b></p> <p>Introduction 210</p> <p>The Well-Architected Framework 210</p> <p>Reliability 211</p> <p>Performance Efficiency 211</p> <p>Security 211</p> <p>Cost Optimization 212</p> <p>Operational Excellence 213</p> <p>A Highly Available Web Application Using Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing 213</p> <p>Creating an Inbound Security Group Rule 214</p> <p>Creating an Application Load Balancer 216</p> <p>Creating a Launch Template 218</p> <p>Creating an Auto Scaling Group 219</p> <p>Static Website Hosting Using S3 222</p> <p>Summary 224</p> <p>Exam Essentials 224</p> <p>Review Questions 226</p> <p><b>Appendix A Answers to Review Questions 231</b></p> <p>Chapter 1: The Cloud 232</p> <p>Chapter 2: Understanding Your AWS Account 232</p> <p>Chapter 3: Getting Support on AWS 234</p> <p>Chapter 4: Understanding the AWS Environment 235</p> <p>Chapter 5: Securing Your AWS Resources 237</p> <p>Chapter 6: Working with Your AWS Resources 238</p> <p>Chapter 7: The Core Compute Services 240</p> <p>Chapter 8: The Core Storage Services 242</p> <p>Chapter 9: The Core Database Services 244</p> <p>Chapter 10: The Core Networking Services 245</p> <p>Chapter 11: Automating Your AWS Workloads 247</p> <p>Chapter 12: Common Use-Case Scenarios 248</p> <p><b>Appendix B Additional Services 251</b></p> <p>Athena 252</p> <p>AWS Backup 252</p> <p>AWS Glue 252</p> <p>Batch 252</p> <p>Cognito 253</p> <p>Database Migration Service 253</p> <p>Elastic File System 253</p> <p>Elastic MapReduce 253</p> <p>Inspector 254</p> <p>Kinesis 254</p> <p>Macie 254</p> <p>Neptune 254</p> <p>Simple Queue Service 254</p> <p>WorkDocs 254</p> <p>WorkSpaces 255</p> <p>Index 257</p>

<p><b>Ben Piper, AWS Certified Solutions Architect,</b> is an IT consultant who has created more than 20 training courses, covering Amazon Web Services, Cisco routing and switching, Puppet configuration management, and Windows Server Administration. <p><b>David Clinton, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner,</b> is a Linux server admin who has worked with IT infrastructure in both academic and enterprise environments. He has created more than 15 video courses, teaching Amazon Web Services and other technologies.

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