AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

AWS Managed Microsoft ADManaged Microsoft AD is actually accessed through the AWS Directory Service, as are a number of directory management tools like Amazon Cloud Directory and Cognito. (Cloud Directory is a way to store and leverage hierarchical data like lists of an organization’s users or hardware assets.) What the Directory Service tools all share …

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Alarm StatesAn alarm can be in one of the three following states at any given time:ALARM The data points to alarm have crossed and remained past a defined threshold for a period of time.OK The data points to alarm have not crossed and remained past a defined threshold for a period of time.INSUFFICIENT_DATA The alarm …

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Relational DatabasesA relational database contains at least one table, which you can visualize as a spreadsheet with columns and rows. In a relational database table, columns may also be called attributes, and rows may also be called records or tuples. Columns and AttributesBefore you can add data to a relational database table, you must predefine …

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Route TablesConfigurable virtual routers do not exist as VPC resources. Instead, the VPC infrastructure implements IP routing as a software function, and AWS calls this function an implied router (also sometimes called an implicit router). This means there’s no virtual router on which to configure interface IP addresses or dynamic routing protocols. Rather, you only …

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Accessing S3 ObjectsIf you didn’t think you’d ever need your data, you wouldn’t go to the trouble of saving it to S3. So, you’ll need to understand how to access your S3-hosted objects and, just as important, how to restrict access to only those requests that match your business and security needs. Access ControlOut of …

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S3 Service Architecture You organize your S3 files into buckets. By default, you’re allowed to create as many as 100 buckets for each of your AWS accounts. As with other AWS services, you can ask AWS to raise that limit. Although an S3 bucket and its contents exist within only a single AWS region, the …

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Instance Lifecycle The state of a running EC2 instance can be managed in a number of ways. Terminating the instance will shut it down and cause its resources to be reallocated to the general AWS pool. This will, in most cases, destroy all data kept on the primary storage. The exception to this would be …

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon Elastic Block Store-3 Read More »