Provides infrastructure layer compute capabilities, including both bare metal and virtual servers with various optimizations includins compute, memory, IO, and disk. Also supports accelerations options such as GPUs, FPGAs, Inferentia and Trainium.
Provides image recognition capability for images (in batch or real-time) and video that provides a analysis of the content such as real-world objects, faces, celebrities, and path mapping.
Provides a publish/subscribe notification service with multiple subscription types including Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, AWS Lambda, generic HTTPS endpoints, SMS and email.
A serverless, fully-managed, message queue service that supports producing, store, and consuming messages and enables loose coupling between applications.
Provides private networking capability spanning multiple availability zones and supporting subnets, routing, network access control groups, security groups and gateways.
Provides tracing of service invocations in distributed applications for observability, allowing users to diagnose issues or optimize their service interactions.
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Book Review: AWS Certified Solutons Architect Official Study Guide: Associate Exam
2017-04-04 / 598 words / 3 minutes
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Official Study Guide: Associate Exam is the first in what will surely be a whole range of books designed to get the aspiring AWS Architect through the certification exam. In this post we review the book and provide some comments.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Official Study Guide: Associate Exam
In addition to the Introduction, the book contains 14 chapters.
The exam blueprint (available from here) discusses specific domains:
Domain 1.0: Designing highly available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, scalable systems
Domain 2.0: Implementation/Deployment
Domain 3.0: Data Security
Domain 4.0: Troubleshooting
The book though is organized according to AWS Services. There is an “Objective Map” as part of the introduction which provides a link between the exam domains and the contents of the book, but the amount of reading required to meet a specific subobjective can seem daunting. For example, the subobjective 1.1, “Identify and recognize cloud architecture considerations, such as fundamental components and effective designs” is linked to services covered in chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 14!
The final three chapters build on the foundations set in the initial 11 chapters, and cover Security, Risk and Compliance and Architecture Best Practices.
The material is certainly easier to consume than reading through the official AWS documentation sets, and faster to consume than AWS Re:Invent videos. As you would expect, it benefits from the focus on the certification exam. Every chapter includes a short test, and there are supplementary mock exams and study flashcards available.
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect web site (and the book) states that eligible candidates for this exam have:
One or more years of hands-on experience designing available, cost efficient, fault tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS
In-depth knowledge of at least one high-level programming language
Ability to identify and define requirements for an AWS-based application
Experience with deploying hybrid systems with on-premises and AWS components
Capability to provide best practices for building secure and reliable applications on the AWS platform
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Official Study Guide: Associate Exam is not a substitute for a significant amount of hands-on experience with AWS. The questions will test basic understanding of the material, but they aren’t as difficult as the questions in the actual exam. The book will help fill gaps if your focus has been in particular areas of AWS and you need broad coverage of other AWS services. It is a great complement to other sources of material.
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