Making the Most Out of this Book – Your Certification and Beyond This book and its accompanying online resources are designed to be a complete preparation tool for your MLS-C01 Exam. The book is written in a way that you can apply everything you’ve learned here even after your certification. The online practice resources that […]

Fundamental AWS Services Now that you understand the shared responsibility model, it’s time to look at some essential services that are used throughout the environments and accounts in which you will be working. These essential services are compute services such as Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2), the global Domain Name System (DNS) service of Route 53, […]

Auditors and the Shared Responsibility Model Many industries require you to show compliance in your cloud environment as it relates to industrial controls. Using and understanding the shared security model will help you and your auditors understand which controls you, as the customer, are responsible for and which ones are the responsibility of AWS, the […]

THE AWS CERTIFIED ADVANCED NETWORKING – SPECIALTY EXAM OBJECTIVES COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER MAY INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING: Objective 1.1: Design a solution that incorporates edge network services to optimize user performance and traffic management for global architectures. Content Distribution Networking In this chapter, we will cover edge networking, APIs, and […]

For many decades, researchers have been trying to simulate human brain activity through the field known as artificial intelligence, or AI for short. In 1956, a group of people met at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, an event that is widely accepted as the first group discussion about AI as it’s known […]

Shared Responsibility Model Example for Container Services Consider the example of RDS. In this case, customers do not have access to the underlying operating system that the RDS databases are running on. As such, customers cannot patch the operating system. This security task has been shifted from the customer to AWS. In addition, platform and […]

Shared Responsibility Model Example for Infrastructure Services When you spin up an EC2 instance in your AWS account, you are able to choose a region from all the available geographic regions AWS offers to have your instance come up in. There is no need to order a server or rack, stack it, secure it in […]

Shared Responsibility Model for Infrastructure Services The shared model for infrastructure services is the most common model that AWS engineers and users are familiar with today. It is represented in Figure 1.2 and covers IaaS services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): Figure 1.3: Shared responsibility model for infrastructure services So, within this infrastructure, […]

Technical Requirements You need to have a basic understanding of AWS services and IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cloud service models. Having a good understanding of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) will come into play as you learn about the nuances of the different models […]

Section 1:AWS Security Fundamentals Before you start your journey into security with AWS, you first need to grasp a few fundamental concepts. This book begins with the AWS shared responsibility model, explaining the differences between security “in” the cloud and security “of” the cloud. The book also breaks down the responsibilities that you, the customer, […]