AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Study Guide

Introduction xxvii
 
Assessment Test xxxiv
 
Part I AWS Fundamentals 1
 
Chapter 1 Introduction to Systems Operations on AWS 3
 
The AWS Ecosystem 5
 
The AWS Services Model 6
 
The AWS Global Presence 7
 
AWS Managed Services 8
 
What is Systems Operations? 14
 
The AWS Shared Responsibility Model 15
 
The AWS Service Level Agreement 16
 
The Seven Domains 16
 
Working with AWS 17
 
The AWS Management Console 17
 
The AWS CLI 19
 
AWS SDKs 19
 
Technical Support and Online Resources 19
 
Support Plans 20
 
Other Support Resources 20
 
Key Exam Resources 20
 
Summary 21
 
Exam Essentials 21
 
Review Questions 24
 
Part II Monitoring and Reporting 29
 
Chapter 2 Amazon CloudWatch 31
 
Monitoring on AWS 32
 
Monitoring is Event-Driven 33
 
Monitoring is Customizable 34
 
Monitoring Drives Action 36
 
Basic CloudWatch Terms and Concepts 36
 
CloudWatch is Metric- and Event-Based 36
 
Alarms Indicate Notifiable Change 36
 
Events and CloudWatch Events are Lower Level 37
 
CloudWatch Events Has Three Components 37
 
Choosing Between Alarms and Events 37
 
What's in a Namespace? 37
 
To the 10th Dimension 38
 
Statistics Aggregate Metrics 38
 
Monitoring Compute 39
 
EC2 Instance Metrics 39
 
EC2 EBS Metrics 40
 
ECS Metrics 41
 
Monitoring Storage 41
 
S3 Metrics 42
 
RDS Metrics 42
 
DynamoDB2 Metrics 43
 
CloudWatch Alarms 44
 
Create an Alarm Threshold 45
 
Set Off an Alarm 45
 
Respond to an Alarm 45
 
CloudWatch Events 46
 
Events 46
 
Rules 46
 
Targets 47
 
Summary 47
 
Resources to Review 48
 
Exam Essentials 48
 
Exercises 49
 
Review Questions 56
 
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SARA PERROTT is an accredited AWS Academy instructor at Bellevue College where she is an adjunct professor. She works full-time in the cybersecurity field and is passionate about her work. She has an MS in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance and holds several industry certifications such as the CISSP and GCIH, in addition to the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate and AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate certifications. You can contact Sara via her website at https://www.saraperrott.com.
 
BRETT MCLAUGHLIN currently works in cloud computing, focusing on scalable cloud platforms and staging and distributing petabyte-scale data stores. He is an expert in cloud-based architectures and large data sets and has led projects for NASA and billion-dollar AUM hedge funds. He is currently the CTO for Volusion, as well as an active instructor in the AWS and serverless communities.