Book Description

What if some impatient and busy engineer wants to master advanced networking on AWS to pass the certification exams, job interviews or simply succeed at work as a cloud arhcitect? WHAT'S INSIDE? Brief lessons based on the 2021 updates to various AWS features and services. Detailed sections dedicated to the reference architectures with easy-to-understand network diagrams. Over 250 mini-scenarios based on real-world use cases. Comprehensive answers to each question and scenario examples. A large case study on a fictitious enterprise dealing with cloud migration issues and corporate politics. Great focus on the three core areas of preparing for the AWS Advanced Networking exam, being successful at work as an architect and passing technical interviews. WHY THIS KICKSTART? From the back cover: "It's just routing, now in the cloud". Said the VP of infrastructure, denied the request for training and later turned out, he was wrong. The concept of network engineering in the cloud is widely referred to as one of the newest and most popular trends in modern day IT. But it is hardly similar to the traditional network engineering world and this makes it particularly difficult for the existing experts to upgrade themselves to senior and chief-level cloud architects. The new field covers a fair amount of routing especially with BGP but it also touches the details of services such as DNS and DHCP. Being an engineer or even architect, would require your automation skills but also expect you to know how the billing process works and how customers are charged in large-scale designs. It demands a fair amount of knowledge around load balancing, while security remains paramount to your success. Hence, this less explored and new field is absolutely unique in terms of both depth and breadth, from network engineering to systems, security, applications and DevOps. Although this combination makes it unusually challenging to pass the cloud network engineering job interviews, be successful at work and if needed, pass the AWS Advanced Networking exam, it also, with a solid preparation plan, creates a unique opportunity to uplift anyone's technical expertise in a short amount of time. The goal of this book is to use hundreds of real-world scenarios and brief lessons to show how to get all those things done as a traditional network engineer or architect in a reasonably short period of time. The book covers three main sections: short lessons based on the 2021 changes for the absolute impatient, over 250 mini-scenarios with comprehensive answers and last but not least, a full section on a fictitious large enterprise with all the politics and design challenges. I also included their daily correspondence and notes from the board of architects meeting. This will show you how people make mistakes and how the cloud architects should review design proposals and decide. Finally, the book extensively covers corner cases that might be interesting to technical interviewers or exam content developers. Let's beat them all together.