March 2018 AWS Study Notes

Overview

• "AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate"

then

• AWS Certified Devops Engineer Professional

SysOps Administrator - Associate

main page:

https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-sysops-admin-associate/

White papers

Overview of Security Processes

https://aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/overview-of-security-processes/

Storage Options in the Cloud

Defining Fault Tolerant Applications in the AWS Cloud

Overview of Amazon Web Services

Compliance Whitepaper

Architecting for the AWS Cloud

Sections

1.0 Monitoring and Metrics 15%

2.0 High Availability 15%

3.0 Analysis 15%

4.0 Deployment and Provisioning 15%

5.0 Data Management 12%

6.0 Security 15%

7.0 Networking 13%

Services

SQS

Poor timing of SQS processes can significantly impact the cost effectiveness of the solution. Further information:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-delay-queues.html

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/AboutVT.html

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-long-polling.html

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/APIReference/API_ChangeMessageVisibility.html

Cloudformation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/best-practices.html