AWS Solution Architect Notes

What this certificate covers This certificate proves that you are able to design and implement s...

Multi-tier solutions Exam item will require you to understand and implement several aspects acro...

Elastic vs scalable Although they both mean adapting to dynamic environments they don't really m...

Secure resource access Security should be considered at every level, stage, and architecture. T...

Cost-effective storage solutions Yous should know which storage service should be used, an objec...

AWS Region and Availability zone An AWS region is a geographical location with a collection of a...

Cloud computing models Infrastructure as a service Offer services that are present in on-premis...

AWS relational database services (RDS) A fully managed database services, makes it easy for you ...

AWS compute services EC2 Allow you to launch on-demand virtual machines. EC2 autoscaling Allo...

Management tools CloudFormation Use a text file to define and deploy your infrastructure on AWS...

Application integration Step functions Make it easy to orchestrate bunch of microservice in a p...

Analytics service Amazon EMR Hadoop framework as service. Data can be analyzed. Athena Analyz...

Security, identity, and compliance AWS Artifact Online portal that give access to AWS security ...

Developers tools Cloud9 IDE in AWS, let you code and then develop services directly from the ID...

EB Let you deploy your application without you having to worry about allocating the servers. You...

AWS rest API This is used by AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, AWS SDK, and other AWS services. S...

History Launched internally in Amazon, then they realize they can provide these services to othe...

IAM: users and groups Identity and access management, it is also a global service because it is ...

Setting up billing alert If you would like your IAM user to also be able to set up billing alert...

Private vs Public vs Elastic IP Networking have two types of internet process address. IPv4, IPv...

EBS Volume Elastic block store volume is a network drive that you can attach to your EC2 instanc...

Scalability There are two type of scalability, vertical scalability and horizontal scalability. ...

AWS RDS Relational database service. It is a managed database service and provide you with datab...

Domain name system It is a lookup server that help you translate domain names to IP addresses. I...

Solution architecture How do you use all these components to make them all work together into on...

S3 Advertised as infinitely scaling storage. Many AWS services also use S3 as part of its servic...

S3 encryption There are four flavors. You can also set up a bucket policy to only allow files t...

AWS CloudFront Content delivery network, they cache content at different locations world-wide th...

SnowFamily These are secure, portable devices that allows you to college and process data at edg...

Decoupling mechanism When we deploy multiple applications they will inevitably need to communica...

Amazon ECS Elastic container service. It is Amazon's own container platform. Let you launch cont...

Lambda function Why is serverless good? Well if you are using EC2 instances then you have to pro...

MyTodoList We want to make a mobile todo with REST API with HTTPS using serverless architecture....

How to pick right database Depend on the question, read-heavy, write-heavy, or balanced workload...

Athena Query service that let you analyze data stored in S3. It uses SQL language to do the quer...

Rekognition A machine learning service to find object, people, text, scenes in images and videos...

CloudWatch CloudWatch Metrics CloudWatch provides metrics (variable that you want to monitor) f...

Organization Let you manage multiple AWS account at the same time. There is one main account tha...

Encryption 101 Encryption in flight: Achieved via SSL, your connection to the web server is encr...

Networking 101 IP Addresses Every host or device on a network must be addressable, meaning that...

Disaster recovery Disaster recovery is about preparing for those disaster that can happen to the...

Event processing in AWS SQS + Lambda Lambda service is going to poll from SQS, however, there c...

CloudFormation Declarative way for outlining your AWS infrastructure using a template. "I want ...