TY  - BOOK
AU  - Piper,Ben
AU  - Clinton,David
TI  - AWS Certified Solutions Architecture study guide: associate (SAA-C01) exam 
SN  - 9781119560395
AV  - TK5105.88813 .P57 2019
U1  - 006.78 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Indianapolis, Indiana
PB  - John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
KW  - Amazon Web Services (Firm)
KW  - Examinations
KW  - Study guides
KW  - Web services
KW  - Cloud computing
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes index; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Clinton (Toronto, Ontario) is a system administrator, teacher, and writer. He has administered, written about, and created training material for many important technology subjects including Linux systems, cloud computing (AWS in particular), and container technologies like Docker. He's the author of Learn Amazon Web Services in a Month of Lunches (Manning, 2017) and Linux in Action (Manning, 2018). Many of his video training courses can be found on Pluralsight.com, and links to his other books (on Linux administration and server virtualization) can be found at bootstrap-it.com.

Ben Piper (Summerville, SC) is an IT consultant who has authored over 20 courses covering Amazon Web Services, networking, Puppet, and Windows Server Administration. You can contact Ben by visiting his website, benpiper.com.

Brett McLaughlin (Dallas, TX) has been working in technology for over 20 years. Today, Brett works in cloud computing, focusing on scalable cloud platforms and staging and distributing petabyte-scale data stores. His experience leading projects on contracts with NASA and Amazon Web Services in particular has given him unique vision and expertise in the practical concerns of cloud-based architectures and large data sets. Throughout, he remains a hands-on, informed leader with the ability to program and fix problems with his own hands, while still staying focused on defining and executing large visions within extraordinary organizations and with teams ranging from 1 to 100. Brett is the author of Java and XML (O'Reilly Media) as well as a number of additional books on programming and XML, most notably Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (also O'Reilly Media).

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Request permission to reuse; Introduction xxv

Assessment Test xxxi

Part I The Core AWS Services 1

Chapter 1 Introduction to Cloud Computing and AWS 3

Chapter 2 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon Elastic Block Store 21

Chapter 3 Amazon Simple Storage Service and Amazon Glacier Storage 47

Chapter 4 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud 67

Chapter 5 Databases 95

Chapter 6 Authentication and Authorization—AWS Identity and Access Management 123

Chapter 7 CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and AWS Config 141

Chapter 8 The Domain Name System and Network Routing: Amazon Route 53 and Amazon CloudFront 169

Part II The Well-Architected Framework 189

Chapter 9 The Reliability Pillar 191

Chapter 10 The Performance Efficiency Pillar 217

Chapter 11 The Security Pillar 247

Chapter 12 The Cost Optimization Pillar 277

Chapter 13 The Operational Excellence Pillar 295

Appendix Answers to Review Questions 327

Index 353; 000-099; 006
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