Some useful links to learn more about AWS and get certified.
AWS Certification: https://aws.amazon.com/certification/?nc2=sb_ce_co
Information on the number of questions, passing score, course outline: https://d1.awsstatic.com/training-and-certification/docs-sa-assoc/AWS-Certified-Solutions-Architect-Associate_Exam-Guide.pdf
Information as to how scores are scaled: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/training-and-certification/demystifying-your-aws-certification-exam-score/
The following links provide more information regarding the topics just discussed. Please review the links in preparation for the exam:
Amazon EBS FAQs: https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/faqs/
Whitepaper – AWS Storage Services Overview: https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/Storage/AWS Storage Services Whitepaper-v9.pdf
SPL Lab – Introduction to Amazon Elastic Block Store: https://amazon.qwiklabs.com/catalog?keywords=Introduction+to+Amazon+Elastic+Block+Store+(EBS)&format[]=any&level[]=any&duration[]=any&price[]=any&modality[]=any&language[]=any
Amazon EC2 Instance Store: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/InstanceStorage.html
EBS Volume types - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-volume-types.html
The following links provide more information regarding the topics just discussed. Please review the links in preparation for the exam:
Elastic Load Balancing Documentation: https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/elastic-load-balancing/
Amazon SQS FAQs: https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/faqs/
Elastic Load Balancing FAQs: https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/faqs/
Amazon EC2 FAQs: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/
Amazon Route 53 Documentation: https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/route53/
Get AWS Certified: Solutions Architect Challenge!!By signing up, you’ll also be eligible for a 50% discount voucher for the exam. This challenge ends December 4, 2021. https://pages.awscloud.com/GLOBAL_TRAINCERT_takethechallenge.html
Amazon Glacier Documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glacier/index.html#lang/en_us
FAQs: Amazon EFS - https://aws.amazon.com/efs/faq/ Amazon S3 - https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/ Amazon Glacier - https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/faqs/ Amazon CloudFront - https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/faqs/
Introduction to Amazon S3 Lab – https://amazon.qwiklabs.com/catalog?keywords=Introduction+to+Amazon+Simple+Storage+Service+(S3)&format[]=any&level[]=any&duration[]=any&price[]=any&modality[]=any&language[]=any
Introduction to Amazon EFS – https://amazon.qwiklabs.com/catalog?keywords=Introduction+to+Amazon+Elastic+File+System+(EFS)&format[]=any&level[]=any&duration[]=any&price[]=any&modality[]=any&language[]=any
AWS Well Architected Framework: https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/
You can now use multi-attach ebs volumes, but be careful as these are not using a shared file system so potentially two EC2 instances could write to the same block therefore corrupting a file. EFS or FsX are better solutions. With Multi-Attach EBS There are limitations and considerations here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-volumes-multi.html
FAQs: https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/faqs/ https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/faqs/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/autoscaling/faqs/ https://aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/faqs/
Introduction to Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling lab: https://amazon.qwiklabs.com/catalog?keywords=Introduction+to+Amazon+EC2+Auto+Scaling&format[]=any&level[]=any&duration[]=any&price[]=any&modality[]=any&language[]=any
Amazon CloudWatch: Tracks metrics and triggers alarms when exceeded.
Amazon CloudWatch documentation: https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/cloudwatch/
Amazon CloudWatch FAQs: https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/cloudwatch/faqs/
For more information, see
Amazon Web Services: Overview of Security Processes: https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/Security/AWS_Security_Whitepaper.pdf
“AWS Security Best Practices” whitepaper: https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-security-best-practices.pdf
IAM Best Practices: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/best-practices.html
Best Practices for Managing AWS Access Keys: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-access-keys-best-practices.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/serv-side-encryption.html
For more information, see:
“Protecting Your Data in AWS” video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb_W1w_TwLk
“Encrypting Data at Rest” whitepaper: https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/AWS_Securing_Data_at_Rest_with_Encryption.pdf
“Protecting Data Using Encryption” in Amazon S3 Developer Guide: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/UsingEncryption.html
“AWS: Overview of Security Processes” whitepaper: https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/Security/AWS_Security_Whitepaper.pdf
"IAM Policies and Bucket Policies and ACLs! Oh, My! (Controlling Access to S3 Resources) in Amazon Security blog (http://blogs.aws.amazon.com/security/post/TxPOJBY6FE360K/IAM-policies-and-Bucket-Policies-and-ACLs-Oh-My-Controlling-Access-to-S3-Resourc)
“AWS re:Invent 2015: VPC Fundamentals and Connectivity Options” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_bQ6Dgk6k8)
“Linux Bastion Hosts on the AWS Cloud (https://s3.amazonaws.com/quickstart-reference/linux/bastion/latest/doc/linux-bastion-hosts-on-the-aws-cloud.pdf)
“What is Amazon VPC?” (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/VPC_Introduction.html)
For information on Amazon S3 pricing, see Amazon S3 Pricing: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
Exam details: https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-solutions-architect-associate/
Training Self-Paced Labs: https://aws.amazon.com/training/self-paced-labs/ Courses: https://aws.amazon.com/training/course-descriptions/ Resources Whitepapers: https://aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/ Architecture Center: https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/ Documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/index.html#lang/en_us
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