An effective guide to becoming an AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

Key Features

Not only pass the certification with confidence but also enhance your skills to solving real-world scenarios.

A practical guide to getting you hands-on experience with application management, deployment, operation.

Enhance your AWS skills with practice questions and mock tests.

Book Description

AWS certifications are becoming one of the must have certifications for any IT professional working on an AWS Cloud platform. This book will act as your one stop preparation guide to validate your technical expertise in deployment, management, and operations on the AWS platform. Along with exam specific content this book will also deep dive into real world scenarios and hands-on instructions.

This book will revolve around concepts like teaching you to deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS. You will also learn to migrate an existing on-premises application to AWS. You get hands-on experience in selecting the appropriate AWS service based on compute, data, or security requirements. This book will also get you well versed with estimating AWS usage costs and identifying operational cost control mechanisms.

By the end of this book, you will be all prepared to implement and manage resources efficiently on the AWS cloud along with confidently passing the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam.

What you will learn

Create and manage users, groups, and permissions using AWS IAM services

Create a secure VPC with public and private subnets, Network Access Control, and security groups

Get started with launching your first EC2 instance, and working with it

Handle application traffic with ELB and monitor AWS resources with CloudWatch

Work with S3, Glacier, and CloudFront

Work across distributed application components using SWF

Understand event-based processing with Lambda and messaging SQS and SNS in AWS

Get familiar with AWS deployment concepts and tools including Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation and AWS OpsWorks

Who this book is for

If you are a system administrator or a system engineer interested in leveraging the AWS platform to deploy applications then, this book is for you. IT professionals interested in passing the AWS Certified Sysops Administrator will also benefit from this book. Some basic understanding of working AWS components would do wonders.