A Real-World Example of Using AWS Security Hub If, in your accounts, you have deployed a custom-built AMI and that has now been found to have a vulnerability, Security Hub insights can aggregate the information and then show you that the AMI itself has an issue. This contrasts with presenting you with a list of […]

1.2  Multi-tenant Environment and Its Implications Salesforce operates in a multi-tenant environment, which refers to a software architecture where a single instance of a software application serves multiple customers or tenants organizations simultaneously. Imagine a bank that offers safe-deposit boxes to its customers. Each customer can rent a safe-deposit box to store their valuable items, […]

Summary You started this chapter by learning how to visualize relationships in the data. Scatter plots and bubble charts are the most important charts in this category to show relationships between two or three variables, respectively. Then, you moved to another category of data visualization, which aimed to make comparisons in the data. The most […]

AWS Elastic Beanstalk With AWS Elastic Beanstalk, you can deploy and manage applications within your AWS infrastructure. Although this might sound similar to AWS CloudFormation, remember that CloudFormation provides an IaC solution. In other words, the goal of CloudFormation is to make it easy to manage the infrastructure resources (EC2 instances, database resources, and so […]

External Load Balancers External load balancing is determined by the VPC subnet the ELB is placed in. If you create an Internet-facing load balancer, a public IP address will be assigned to the load balancer node. External load balancers are accessible from the public Internet and will always have a public IP address assigned to […]

Provisioning Redundant Connectivity between Your AWS and On-Premises Environments When connecting your on-premises environment to your AWS environment, it is highly recommended to make those connections redundant to sustain the failure of any single one of them. Large organizations are likely to use some form of private connectivity for security purposes; you will then end […]

Security Standards versus Security Controls versus Security Checks When enabling the Security Hub service, you were presented with several security standards that could be used to run checks against your environment. At the time of publishing, the security standards built into the Security Hub service are as follows: Security standards allow you to focus on […]

Building key performance indicators Before you wrap up these data visualization sections, you need to be introduced to key performance indicators, or KPIs for short. A KPI is usually a single value that describes the results of a business indicator, such as the churn rate, net promoter score (NPS), return on investment (ROI), and so […]

1.1  The Basic Architecture as Model-View-Controller (MVC) Salesforce is a cloud-based platform that provides customer relationship management (CRM) services to businesses of all sizes. Its architecture is based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC), which separates the data, business logic, and presentation layers of the cloud application. The platform is known for its flexibility, scalability, and customization […]

Managing EC2 AMIs An EC2 AMI, or Amazon Machine Image, is used to launch an EC2 instance. You can manage AMIs via the Management Console by navigating to Services > EC2 > Images > AMIs. Once there, the following options are available: Launch: Launch an EC2 instance from a selected AMI. EC2 Image Builder: Build […]