Marko Sluga - AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

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Marko Sluga has had the opportunity to work in computing at a very exciting time and has been privileged enough to witness the rise of cloud computing in the last 20 years. Beginning his career as a service technician, he excelled at solving difficult problems. He worked his way up the IT food chain to work on servers, operating systems, virtualization, and the cloud. In the past, Marko has architected numerous cloud computing solutions and today works as a cloud technology consultant and an Authorized Amazon Instructor. He is AWS certified, holding the Architect, SysOps, and Developer Associate AWS certification, the DevOps and Architect Professional AWS certification, and the Security, Advanced Networking, and Big Data Specialty AWS certification.

Ralph Parisi is an IT consultant, evangelist, and teacher. He has been working in the IT industry for over 20 years. His first career was in the broadcast television industry where he worked for WNYW as a post-production editor. Ralph has extensive knowledge of server operating systems, email, Active Directory, Group Policy, networking, and cloud architecture. Ralph has been certified as a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Citrix Certified Instructor, and Amazon Authorized Instructor. He holds the following certifications: AWS Certified Architect Professional, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate, and AWS Certified Security Specialty.

John Muia is an AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, with extensive experience in managing servers and IT infrastructure in the AWS cloud. He can effectively plan and calculate the total cost of ownership, and configure IT infrastructure that achieves high availability and performance. He has spent the last two years designing scalable, elastic, highly available, and secure system architectures and applications for customers in the cloud. He is proficient in the use of monitoring tools such as Grafana, Nagios, and CloudWatch.

Anthony Ngunjiri is a young Kenyan living and working in Nairobi. He was born in Kenya in 1990. Before venturing in information technology, he had an interest in aviation, and studied flight dispatch in 2014. He was a student at Zetech University studying for a diploma in Business and Information Technology. He graduated in 2018. He heard of AWS in 2016 when he started his practice, and he gained his AWS SysOps admin certification in 2017. He is currently preparing to become a certified AWS DevOps professional in April 2019.

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Before we begin, I would like to extend a warm welcome and congratulate you on your decision to embark on a journey to becoming an AWS Certified SysOps Administrator. This publication, the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate Guide, is designed to guide you through the process of learning about the services AWS offers and gives you the tools required to access, configure, and use of the AWS cloud computing environment as well as perform basic troubleshooting in the environment .

By reading through this book and trying out the practical examples that are outlined throughout, you will be able to gain valuable knowledge that can be put to use when you decide to attempt to take the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator exam. Taking an exam is no small feat and should be considered a learning process.

In general, this book is intended to familiarize the reader with the concept of cloud computing and the services offered by Amazon Web Services currently, the market leader and