Task: Create AWS account and set up for below tasks What is the need to perform this: Securing an AWS root account is crucial because it has unrestricted access to all resources and services within your AWS environment. If compromised, an attacker could delete resources, steal data, or even lock you out of your ownContinue reading “AWS Security – Part 1- Securing Root Account with MFA”
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Lab 2: Network Security Groups and Application Security Groups
Objective You have been asked to implement your organization’s virtual networking infrastructure and test to ensure it is working correctly. In particular: Exercise 1: Create the virtual networking infrastructure Step 1: Type Virtual networks and press the Enter key and click + Create. Step 2: Fill in the details On the IP addresses tab ofContinue reading “Lab 2: Network Security Groups and Application Security Groups”
Lab 1: Role Based Access Control
Objective You have been asked to create a proof of concept showing how Azure users and groups are created. Also, how role-based access control is used to assign roles to groups. Specifically, you need to: Step 1: Login to the portal Step 2: Go to Microsoft Entra ID and click on add user Step 3:Continue reading “Lab 1: Role Based Access Control”
AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
IaC allows you to write a script to provision AWS resources. The benefit is that you provision resources in a reproducible manner that saves time. CloudFormation CloudFormation allows you to provision AWS resources using IaC. Features: Provides a repeatable process for provisioning resources. Works with most AWS services. Create templates for the resources you wantContinue reading “AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC)”
AWS Developer Service
Software developers use tools to accelerate the software development and release cycle. Services: Cloud9 Cloud9 allows you to write code within an integrated development environment (IDE) from within your web browser. Features: Integrated development environment (IDE). Write and debug code. Supports popular programming languages. Cloud9 preconfigures the development environment with the needed SDKs and libraries.Continue reading “AWS Developer Service”
Machine Learning Services
Artificial Intelligence(AI) teaches computers to do things that normally require human intelligence. Some services: Rekognition Rekognition allows you to automate your image and video analysis. Features: Image and video analysis. Identify custom labels in images and videos. Face to text detection in images and videos. Comprehend Comprehend is a natural-language processing (NLP) service that findsContinue reading “Machine Learning Services”
AWS Analytics Services
Data Warehouse A data warehouse is a data storage solution that aggregates massive amounts of historic data from disparate sources. Benefits: Data warehouses support querying, reporting, analytics. And business intelligence. They are not used for transaction processing. Amazon Redshift Redshift is a scalable data warehouse solution. Features: Data warehousing solution. Handles exabyte-scale data. Improves speedContinue reading “AWS Analytics Services”
AWS Migration Services
A lot of companies are migrating to the cloud, and they need inexpensive, fast, and secure ways to move their on-premises data to AWS. Data Migration Service (DMS) DMS helps you migrate databases to or within AWS. Features: Migrate on-premise databases to AWS. Supports homogeneous and heterogeneous migrations. Continuous data replication. Virtually no downtime. UseContinue reading “AWS Migration Services”
AWS Database Services
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) RDS is a service that makes it easy to launch and manage relational databases. Features: Supports popular database engines. Offers high availability and fault tolerance using multi-AZ deployment. AWS manages the database with automatic software patching, automated backups, operating system maintenance, and more. Launch read replicas across Regions in orderContinue reading “AWS Database Services”
AWS Networking Services
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) VPC is a foundational service that allows you to create a secure private network in the AWS cloud where you launch your resources. Features: Private virtual network. Launch resources like EC2 instances inside the VPC. Isolate and protect resources. A VPC spans Availability Zones in a Region. VPC peering allowsContinue reading “AWS Networking Services”
