AWS Governance Services for Cloud and DevOps Engineers

AWS Governance Services for Cloud and DevOps Engineers

Learning path for the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam

📝Introduction

This post will cover the main Technologies of AWS Governance Services.

📝Governance Services

  • AWS Organizations -> It lets you create new AWS accounts at no additional charge.

    • With accounts in an organization, you can easily allocate resources, group accounts, and apply governance policies to accounts or groups.

    • Centrally manage your environment as you scale your AWS resources

    • Automate account creation

    • Consolidated billing

    • Share resources across accounts

    • Audit your environment for compliance

    • Organization in the Real World Scenarios:

      • Share common resources across accounts. More easily share central resources, software applications, directories, and services within your organization.

  • AWS Control Tower -> It orchestrates multiple AWS services on your behalf while maintaining the security and compliance needs of your organization.

    • Builds multi-account architecture

    • Set up a well-architected, multi-account environment in under 30 minutes

    • Automate the creation of AWS accounts with built-in governance

    • Enforce best practices, standards, and regulatory requirements with preconfigured controls

    • Seamlessly integrate third-party software at scale to enhance your AWS environment

    • Control Tower in the Real World Scenarios:

      • Quickly deploy applications. Set up and govern AWS multi-account environments so that you can quickly, easily, and confidently deploy applications.

  • AWS Systems Manager -> It is a secure end-to-end management solution for resources on AWS and in multi-cloud and hybrid environments.

    • Automate configuration and ongoing management of your applications and resources

    • Group resources and act

    • Patch and run commands on EC2

    • Improve visibility and control in the cloud, on-premises, and at the edge

    • Shorten the time to detect and resolve operational issues

    • Maintain instance compliance against your patch, configuration, and custom policies

    • Systems Manager in the Real World Scenarios:

      • Remediate security events. Adapt your security and compliance profile and analyze security events after the fact to prevent a future reoccurrence.

  • AWS Trusted Advisor -> It provides recommendations that help you follow AWS best practices.

    • Evaluates your account by using checks

    • Recommendations to optimize your services and resources

    • AWS Basic Support and AWS Developer Support customers can access core security checks and checks for service quotas

    • AWS Business Support and AWS Enterprise Support customers can access all checks, including cost optimization, security, fault tolerance, performance, and service quotas

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