Associate Solutions Architect Exam

  • Solutions Architect Exam Guide

  • AWS Best Practices

  • Operational Excellence

  • Direct Connect - direct line from your data center to AWS

  • KMS - allows you to import your own keys, disable/re-enable keys, and define key management roles

  • AWS Shield - Protects against DDOS

  • AWS Macie - Uses ML to protect sensitive data

  • AWS WAF - Protects against XSS attacks and can block IP addresses

  • Consolidated billing allows bills coming from multiple AWS accounts to be rolled up to a single bill. Charges are still traceable to their original accounts, there is no charge for consolidation, and it could potentially reduce the overall bill

  • AWS Trusted Advisor - Will advice on security such as, MFA being configured in the default acount and calling out security groups and ports that have unrestricted access