What This Book Covers
Chapter 1, Understanding Cloud Fundamentals, helps you get a clear understanding of the fundamentals of cloud computing.
Chapter 2, Virtual Private Cloud, teaches you about the intricacies of VPCs, giving you an in-depth understanding of their structure and functionality.
Chapter 3, Identity and Access Management, provides you with a comprehensive understanding of IAM’s capabilities and mechanisms.
Chapter 4, Compute, explores the diverse compute options available, ranging from traditional instances to modern container services.
Chapter 5, Storage, delves deeper into the specifics of AWS’s storage options, ensuring that you are able to choose the most appropriate solution for your needs.
Chapter 6, DNS and Load Balancing, covers the core concepts of DNS, Route 53, load balancing, and ELB to help you make optimal design decisions when architecting highly available applications on AWS.
Chapter 7, Data and Analytics, explores the various AWS data and analytics services, teaching you how to evaluate the choices available.
Chapter 8, Migrations and Data Transfer, teaches you about the processes and tools for migrating and transferring data to AWS.
Chapter 9, Serverless and Application Integration, delves deep into the core principles and services that underpin the serverless paradigm, focusing on equipping you with the skills required to design and implement efficient, cost-effective, and resilient serverless applications.
Chapter 10, Security, provides an overview of the key AWS security services.
Chapter 11, Management and Governance, explains how to create compliance rules so that you can be alerted when rules are broken, how to auto-remediate broken rules, and how to enforce permissions across an entire cross-region, multi-account platform, among other things.
Chapter 12, Design Secure Architectures, shows you how the services covered in previous chapters fit into the Design Secure Architectures exam domain.
Chapter 13, Design Resilient Architectures, covers the two task statements from the Design Resilient Architectures exam domain.
Chapter 14, Design High-Performing Architectures, focuses on the Design High-Performing Architectures exam domain and explores the key considerations across various components that contribute to building solutions that not only perform well under current loads but are also scalable.
Chapter 15, Design Cost-Optimized Architectures, covers the four task statements from the Design Cost-Optimized Architectures exam domain.
