Daily Goals – Ch. 1 Cloud Computing & AWS; Challenge Lab 1 “Getting Started with AWS Fundamentals”
So after a couple of weeks of going through the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide (Piper & Clinton, 2021) I realized I needed much more in-depth, hands-on practice if I was going to have success passing the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam (SSA-C02). Through some research I decided upon Neal Davis’s Digital Cloud Training platform. His platform has proven to be extremely helpful for me personally, not only in the quality and scope of information I am receiving about AWS fundamentals, but also in the confidence I am gaining by going through and actually doing each of the Hands-On exercises and Challenge Labs.
Challenge Lab #1
Configure and deploy a highly available and secure website by using Amazon Web Services (AWS). First, I will configure network security for my environment, and then I will create and configure an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket to store static assets. Next, I will create a fleet of EC2 instances by using an Auto Scaling group. Finally, I will integrate an Application Load Balancer into the Auto Scaling group.
- Configured Network Security
-Create a Network Access Control List (NACL)
- Created a Security Group (SG)
- Created two S3 buckets and enable Cross-Region Replication (CRR)
- Uploaded objects to S3 bucket 1. (welcome.txt and image.jpeg)
- Verified objects also replicated to S3 bucket 2
- Configured public access on S3 buckets
- Configured Security for a bucket (IAM)
-Created a new IAM policy for a S3 bucket
-Created a new user
-Created a new group
*Did not finish. Need to circle back to this Lab.