As more and more companies migrate their on-premises workloads to the cloud, the demand for highly skilled and certified AWS Professionals will continue to rise over the coming years ahead. The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate (SOA-C02) is consistently among the top-paying IT certifications and you can earn over $150,000 per year with an AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate certification!

Concretely, here's what we'll learn to pass the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate exam:

EC2 For SysOps: Placement Groups, Shutdown Behavior, Troubleshooting, AMI, CloudWatch Metrics

SSM - Systems Manager: Manage EC2 at Scale, Automation, Run Command, Secure Shell, Parameter Store

High Availability and Scalability: ELB Load Balancers (SysOps), Auto Scaling (SysOps), CloudWatch Metrics

Elastic Beanstalk for SysOps

CloudFormation for SysOps: including cfn-init scripts

EBS & EFS: Operations, Troubleshooting, CloudWatch metrics, RAID

S3 in depth: ALL you need to know about S3: MFA, Default Encryption, Policies, Access Logs, Athena, Glacier, CloudFront, Snowball, Storage Gateway, and more

Databases: RDS, Aurora & ElastiCache - Security, Backup, Snapshots, Performance, Metrics, Troubleshooting, Scalability

Monitoring, Audit & Performance: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config

AWS Account Management: Health, Organizations, Billing and Cost Monitoring and Control

Security and Compliance: over 10 services

Route 53: Practical hands-on guide to using Route 53 in the real world

VPC: Complete guide to building fully operational and 2019-ready VPC

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