AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide - Piper, Ben

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Résumé :

Introduction xxi

Assessment Test xxvii

Chapter 1 The Cloud 1

Introduction 2

What Is Cloud Computing? 2

Highly Available and Scalable Resources 2

Professionally Secured Infrastructure 3

Metered Payment Model 3

Server Virtualization: The Basics 4

Cloud Platform Models 5

Infrastructure as a Service 5

Platform as a Service 5

Software as a Service 5

Serverless Workloads 6

Scalability and Elasticity 7

Scalability 7

Elasticity 7

Summary 8

Exam Essentials 9

Review Questions 10

Chapter 2 Understanding Your AWS Account 13

Introduction 14

The Free Tier 15

How Does the Free Tier Work? 15

Tracking Your Free Tier Usage 15

What's Available Under the Free Tier? 17

Product Pricing 18

Finding AWS Pricing Documentation 18

Working with Online Calculators 19

Service Limits 23

Billing and Cost Management 23

The AWS Billing Dashboard 24

AWS Budgets 24

Monitoring Your Costs 25

AWS Organizations 26

Summary 26

Exam Essentials 27

Review Questions 28

Chapter 3 Getting Support on AWS 33

Introduction 34

Support Plans 34

Support Plan Pricing 34

The Basic Support Plan 36

The Developer Support Plan 36

The Business Support Plan 37

The Enterprise Support Plan 37

AWS Professional Services 37

Documentation and Online Help 38

Documentation 38

Discussion Forums 40

Trusted Advisor 40

Summary 42

Exam Essentials 43

Review Questions 44

Chapter 4 Understanding the AWS Environment 49

Introduction 50

AWS Global Infrastructure: AWS Regions 50

Regionally Based Services 52

Globally Based Services 53

Service Endpoints 53

AWS Global Infrastructure: Availability Zones 54

Availability Zone Designations 54

Availability Zone Networking 55

Availability Zones and High Availability 56

AWS Global Infrastructure: Edge Locations 57

Edge Locations and CloudFront 58

Regional Edge Cache Locations 59

The AWS Shared Responsibility Model 59

Managed Resources 60

Unmanaged Resources 61

Service Health Status 61

AWS Acceptable Use Policy 61

Summary 61

Exam Essentials 62

Review Questions 63

Chapter 5 Securing Your AWS Resources 67

Introduction 68

AWS Identity and Access Management 68

Protecting the Root User 69

Authentication 69

Users, Groups, and Roles 72

Providing Federated Access 74

Credential Report 75

Encryption 75

Regulatory Compliance (AWS Artifact) 76

Summary 77

Exam Essentials 77

Review Questions 78

Chapter 6 Working with Your AWS Resources 83

Introduction 84

The AWS Management Console 85

Accessing the AWS Management Console 85

Opening a Service Console 87

Working with Shortcuts 88

Selecting a Region 88

The Account Name Menu 90

Resource Groups 90

Tag Editor 91

Tagging Strategies 92

The AWS Console Mobile Application 94

The AWS Command Line Interface 98

Requirements 99

Installation 99

Software Development Kits 101

Mobile Software Development Kits 101

Internet of Things Device Software Development Kits 102

CloudWatch 103

CloudWatch Metrics 103

CloudWatch Alarms 104

CloudWatch Dashboards 104

CloudWatch Logs 105

CloudWatch Events 106

CloudTrail 107

API and Non-API Events 107

Biographie:
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Sommaire:

Ben Piper, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, 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.

David Clinton, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, 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....