< AWS Cloud Practitioner

Technology

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for the technology portion of AWS Cloud Practitioner certification include:[1]

  • Define methods of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud
  • Define the AWS global infrastructure
  • Identify the core AWS services
  • Identify resources for technology support

Readings

  1. AWS: Architecting for the Cloud
  2. AWS: Compare AWS Support Plans

Multimedia

  1. YouTube: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Training
  2. YouTube: Practice Questions Walkthrough for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (3/4)

Activities

  1. Complete AWS: Cloud Practitioner Essentials Modules 4 - 5.

Lesson Summary

Define methods of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud

  • Ways to interact with AWS services include:[2]
    • Management Console
    • Command Line Interface
    • Software Development Kits

Define the AWS global infrastructure

  • AWS infrastructure includes:[3]
    • Regions - a discrete geographic data boundary containing at least two availability zones.
    • Availability zones - one or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity.
  • Select regions based on:[4]
    • Compliance with data governance and legal requirements
    • Proximity to your customers
    • Available services within a Region
    • Pricing
  • An edge location is a site that Amazon CloudFront uses to store cached copies of your content closer to your customers for faster delivery.[5]

Identify the core AWS services

  • Core AWS services include:[6]
    • Compute
      • EC2
      • Elastic Beanstalk
      • Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
      • Lambda
      • Lightsail
    • Storage
      • S3
      • Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
      • Snowball
      • Storage Gateway
    • Databases
      • DynamoDB
      • RDS
      • Aurora
      • Redshift
    • Network
      • VPC
      • CloudFront
      • Route 53
    • Management
      • CloudFormation
      • CloudTrail
      • CloudWatch
    • Other
      • Application Autoscaling
      • Simple Notification Service (SNS)
      • Simple Queue Service (SQS)
      • Elastic Container Service (ECS)
      • Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
      • Fargate
      • Direct Connect

Identify resources for technology support

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