AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide. David Higby Clinton

Chapter 4: Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Chapter 5: Database Services Chapter 6: Authentication and Authorization—AWS Identity and Access Management Chapter 7: CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and AWS Config Chapter 8: The Domain Name System and Network Routing: Amazon Route 53 and Amazon CloudFront Chapter 9: Simple Queue Service and Kinesis Chapter 10: The Reliability Pillar Chapter 11: The Performance Efficiency Pillar Chapter 12: The Security Pillar Chapter 13: The Cost Optimization Pillar Chapter 14: The Operational Excellence Pillar

      11  Index

      12  Online Test Bank Register and Access the Online Test Bank

      13  End User License Agreement

      List of Tables

      1 Chapter 1TABLE 1.1 AWS service categoriesTABLE 1.2 Core AWS services (by category)TABLE 1.3 A list of publicly accessible AWS regions

      2 Chapter 2TABLE 2.1 EC2 instance type family and their top‐level designationsTABLE 2.2 Pricing estimates comparing on‐demand with reserve costsTABLE 2.3 A sample key/value tagging conventionTABLE 2.4 Sample costs for each of the four EBS storage volume typesTABLE 2.5 The three IP address ranges used by private networks

      3 Chapter 3TABLE 3.1 Guaranteed availability standards for S3 storageTABLE 3.2 Sample retrieval costs for Glacier data in the US East regionTABLE 3.3 Sample storage costs for data in the US East region

      4 Chapter 4TABLE 4.1 Subnets in different availability zonesTABLE 4.2 The local routeTABLE 4.3 Route table with default routeTABLE 4.4 Inbound rules allowing SSH and HTTPS access from any IP addressTABLE 4.5 Outbound rule allowing Internet accessTABLE 4.6 Default NACL inbound rulesTABLE 4.7 Blocking ruleTABLE 4.8 Default NACL outbound rulesTABLE 4.9 IP address configuration when using a NAT deviceTABLE 4.10 Default routes for the Private and Public subnetsTABLE 4.11 Routes for VPC peeringTABLE 4.12 Route table entries for using a transit gateway

      5 Chapter 5TABLE 5.1 The Employees tableTABLE 5.2 The Departments tableTABLE 5.3 The Employees tableTABLE 5.4 Item in an unstructured databaseTABLE 5.5 Composite primary keys

      6 Chapter 8TABLE 8.1 The data categories contained in a resource record from a zone fileTABLE 8.2 Some common DNS record typesTABLE 8.3 Permitted CloudFront origins

      7 Chapter 9TABLE 9.1 Comparison of SQS and Kinesis services

      8 Chapter 10TABLE 10.1 The relationship between annual availability percentage and time u...

      9 Chapter 11TABLE 11.1 Instance type parameter descriptionsTABLE 11.2 Common use cases for compute categoriesTABLE 11.3 Third‐party data warehousing and management tools

      List of Illustrations

      1 Chapter 1FIGURE 1.1 A virtual machine hostFIGURE 1.2 Copies of a machine image are added to new VMs as they're launche...FIGURE 1.3 The AWS Shared Responsibility Model

      2 Chapter 2FIGURE 2.1 A multi‐VPC infrastructure for a development environmentFIGURE 2.2 A NAT gateway providing network access to resources in private su...FIGURE 2.3 Scheduled action setting the desired capacity to 2 every Saturday...FIGURE 2.4 Scheduled action setting the desired capacity to 4 every Friday

      3 Chapter 4FIGURE 4.1 VPC with subnets and instancesFIGURE 4.2 Network address translation using a NAT device

      4 Chapter 6FIGURE 6.1 The Security Status checklist from the IAM page of an AWS account...FIGURE 6.2 The six action items displayed on the Your Security Credentials p...

      5 Chapter 7FIGURE 7.1 CPU utilizationFIGURE 7.2 The sum of network bytes sent out over a one‐hour periodFIGURE 7.3 Combining metric math functions

      6 Chapter 8FIGURE 8.1 A simple DNS domain broken down to its partsFIGURE 8.2 A sample Traffic Flow policy

      7 Chapter 9FIGURE 9.1 SQS workflow

      8 Chapter 10FIGURE 10.1 Scheduled action setting the desired capacity to 2 every Saturda...FIGURE 10.2 Scheduled action setting the desired capacity to 4 every Friday...

      9 Chapter 11FIGURE 11.1 The data flow of a typical load balancing operationFIGURE 11.2 A typical ElastiCache configuration with an ElastiCache cluster ...

      10 Chapter 12FIGURE 12.1 CloudWatch Logs showing AttachVolume, DetachVolume, and DeleteVo...FIGURE 12.2 Athena query resultsFIGURE 12.3 AWS Config showing an EBS volume as noncompliantFIGURE 12.4 Configuration timeline for an EBS volumeFIGURE 12.5 EBS volume configuration and relationship changesFIGURE 12.6 GuardDuty finding showing a possible malware infectionFIGURE 12.7 Inspector finding showing that root users can log in via SSH

      Guide

      1  Cover Page

      2  Table of Contents

      3  Begin Reading

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