Lifecycle Management The following sections explore lifecycle management of cloud resources. Roadmaps In lifecycle management, roadmaps provide a timeline for the implementation of the product from start to finish. Roadmaps are also used to align the product with business goals and are designed to provide an easy way to visualize the lifecycle management of a […]

Long-Term Support (LTS) An LTS build is a stable build that should be supported for a longer than average period of time. This can be an important issue for some organizations because moving to a new version of software can pose several challenges, including Time, effort, and money to ensure that the new version performs […]

Staging Some organizations utilize a staging environment to replicate the production environment. This staging environment can be used for several different purposes, including determining potential problems in the production environment and as a replacement when the production environment fails or is compromised. It is also used when implementing a blue/green deployment (see the following section […]

This chapter covers the following official AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (SOA-C02) exam domain: Domain 3: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation (For more information on the official AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate [SOA-C02] exam topics, see the Introduction.) Resources in the cloud often contain software that needs to be maintained. This includes handling the […]

AWS Systems Manager One of the concerns that an organization that migrates to the cloud has is how to see the organization’s infrastructure. The AWS Systems Manager provides a single pane of glass that allows for full visibility of the resources within an organization’s infrastructure. When using Systems Manager, you can place resources into groups […]

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 […]

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 […]

ExamAlert Expect to see at least a handful of CLI questions on the exam. Some of these questions might focus on just the syntax of AWS CLI commands, but there can be some resource-specific questions. If you want to review CLI commands for a specific resource, visit the following reference: https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/index.html. The AWS CLI can […]

This chapter covers the following official AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (SOA-C02) exam domain: Domain 3: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation (For more information on the official AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate [SOA-C02] exam topics, see the Introduction.) As you can probably imagine, provisioning resources in AWS is a major responsibility within an organization. […]

Glacier Glacier is the archiving tier of S3 in AWS; however, you can use Glacier directly through the API as well. Many different backup tools allow you to store data onto Glacier directly. When using Glacier, be mindful of the RTO because the retrieval times in Glacier fall into three categories: Expedited retrieval: Retrieval of […]