What This Book Covers
This book is aligned with the AWS SA Pro certification contents outline updated in 2022 and covers the following topics.
Chapter 1, Determining an Authentication and Access Control Strategy for Complex Organizations, explains the concepts supporting Identity and Access Management (IAM) on AWS. It covers aspects such as cross-account access control and user federation, along with the multiple ways an organization can provide their users with access to AWS by leveraging their existing directory service.
Chapter 2, Designing Networks for Complex Organizations, covers the AWS services that can be used to design hybrid networks, allowing organizations to access AWS resources from their on-premises environments and vice versa and communicate across multiple AWS accounts.
Chapter 3, Designing a Multi-Account AWS Environment for Complex Organizations, explains how to organize resources across multiple AWS accounts for an organization. It discusses how to approach billing and resource isolation and how to increase security across your entire organization as well as for individual business units.
Chapter 4, Ensuring Cost Optimization, focuses on the various mechanisms and services available to keep your AWS bill under control.
Chapter 5, Determining Security Requirements and Controls, examines access control aspects for resources spread across your organization’s AWS accounts. It takes you through the relevant services and patterns to apply security and compliance controls.
Chapter 6, Meeting Reliability Requirements, explores several architectural patterns and relevant AWS services to help you choose a design and implementation strategy for your reliability requirements.
Chapter 7, Ensuring Business Continuity, walks you through different strategies to protect your critical workloads on AWS in case of a disaster.
Chapter 8, Meeting Performance Objectives, puts the focus on finding a solution design that meets your performance objectives. It covers the best practices and strategies to implement when designing for performance on AWS.
Chapter 9, Establishing a Deployment Strategy, explores the various options offered on AWS for deploying and updating workloads.
Chapter 10, Designing for Cost Efficiency, discusses the various pricing models offered by AWS and how to select the optimal one for your requirements and constraints.
Chapter 11, Improving Operational Excellence, discusses the importance of reviewing your existing operational strategy through AWS best practices to identify areas of improvement.
Chapter 12, Improving Reliability, guides you in assessing your workload design through the lens of AWS reliability best practices.
Chapter 13, Improving Performance, covers the specifics of performance engineering to help you improve your workload’s performance efficiency by following AWS best practices.
Chapter 14, Improving Security, focuses on AWS security practices to help you reinforce the security of your workloads.
Chapter 15, Improving Deployment, takes you through the deployment strategies and AWS capabilities that can help you improve deployment for an existing solution.
Chapter 16, Exploring Opportunities for Cost Optimization, discusses the aspects that can help you optimize your costs further on AWS.
Chapter 17, Selecting Existing Workloads and Processes to Migrate, dives into migration readiness, application discovery, application portfolio analysis, and how to select and prioritize workloads for migration.
Chapter 18, Selecting Migration Tools and Services, presents an overview of the tools and AWS services that you can leverage to prepare for a migration.
Chapter 19, Determining a New Architecture for Existing Workloads, guides you through the vast number of options available for compute, storage, and databases when migrating a workload.
Chapter 20, Determining Opportunities for Modernization and Enhancements, explores serverless and container options, as well as purpose-built databases and new cloud-native integration patterns.
