AWS Cloud Practitioner Study Notes

Index
Study Guide
Target candidate description
Recommended AWS knowledge
What is considered out of scope for the target candidate?
Exam content
Response types
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Exam results
Domain 1: Cloud Concepts
Define the AWS Cloud and its value proposition
Identify aspects of AWS Cloud economics
Explain the different cloud architecture design principles
Domain 2: Security and Compliance
Define the AWS shared responsibility model
Define AWS Cloud security and compliance concepts
Identify AWS access management capabilities
Identify resources for security support
Domain 3: Technology
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
Domain 4: Billing and Pricing
Compare and contrast the various pricing models for AWS (for example, On-Demand Instances,
Reserved Instances, and Spot Instance pricing)
Recognize the various account structures in relation to AWS billing and pricing
Identify resources available for billing support
Cloud Computing
What is Cloud Computing?
The Deployment Models of the Cloud
The Five Characteristics of Cloud Computing
Six Advantages of Cloud Computing
Problems solved by the Cloud
Types of Cloud Computing
Example of Cloud Computing Types
Pricing of the Cloud – Quick Overview
AWS Cloud Use Cases
AWS Global Infrastructure
AWS Regions
How to choose an AWS Region?
AWS Availability Zones
AWS Points of Presence (Edge Locations)
Tour of the AWS Console
Shared Responsibility Model
IAM: Identity Access \& Management
What Is IAM?
IAM: Users \& Groups
IAM: Permissions
IAM Policies Inheritance
IAM Policies Structure

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Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing
What is Cloud Computing?
The Deployment Models of the Cloud
The Five Characteristics of Cloud Computing
Six Advantages of Cloud Computing
Problems solved by the Cloud
Types of Cloud Computing
Example of Cloud Computing Types
Pricing of the Cloud – Quick Overview
AWS Cloud Use Cases
AWS Global Infrastructure
AWS Regions
How to choose an AWS Region?
AWS Availability Zones
AWS Points of Presence (Edge Locations)
Tour of the AWS Console
Shared Responsibility Model

What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of compute power, database storage, applications, and other IT
resources
Through a cloud services platform with pay-as-you-go pricing
You can provision exactly the right type and size of computing resources you need
You can access as many resources as you need, almost instantly
Simple way to access servers, storage, databases and a set of application services
Amazon Web Services owns and maintains the network-connected hardware required for these application
services, while you provision and use what you need via a web application.

The Deployment Models of the Cloud

Private Cloud: Public Cloud: Hybrid Cloud:

Cloud services used by a Cloud resources owned and operated by a Keep some servers on
single organization, not thirdparty cloud service provider delivered premises and extend some
exposed to the public. over the Internet. capabilities to the Cloud

Control over sensitive assets in

Complete control Six Advantages of Cloud Computing
your private infrastructure

Flexibility and
Security for sensitive
costeffectiveness of the public
applications
cloud

Meet specific business needs

The Five Characteristics of Cloud Computing

On-demand self service:
Users can provision resources and use them without human interaction from the service provider

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Broad network access:
Resources available over the network, and can be accessed by diverse client platforms
Multi-tenancy and resource pooling:
Multiple customers can share the same infrastructure and applications with security and privacy
Multiple customers are serviced from the same physical resources
Rapid elasticity and scalability:
Automatically and quickly acquire and dispose resources when needed
Quickly and easily scale based on demand
Measured service:
Usage is measured, users pay correctly for what they have used

Six Advantages of Cloud Computing

Trade capital expense (CAPEX) for operational expense (OPEX)

Pay On-Demand: don’t own hardware
Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) & Operational Expense (OPEX)
Benefit from massive economies of scale
Prices are reduced as AWS is more efficient due to large scale
Stop guessing capacity
Scale based on actual measured usage
Increase speed and agility
Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers
Go global in minutes: leverage the AWS global infrastructure

Problems solved by the Cloud

Flexibility: change resource types when needed

Cost-Effectiveness: pay as you go, for what you use
Scalability: accommodate larger loads by making hardware stronger or adding additional nodes
Elasticity: ability to scale out and scale-in when needed
High-availability and fault-tolerance: build across data centers
Agility: rapidly develop, test and launch software applications

Types of Cloud Computing

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Provide building blocks for cloud IT
Provides networking, computers, data storage space
Highest level of flexibility
Easy parallel with traditional on-premises IT
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Removes the need for your organization to manage the underlying infrastructure
Focus on the deployment and management of your applications
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Completed product that is run and managed by the service provider

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Example of Cloud Computing Types

Infrastructure as a Service:
Amazon EC2 (on AWS)
GCP, Azure, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, Linode
Platform as a Service:
Elastic Beanstalk (on AWS)
Heroku, Google App Engine (GCP), Windows Azure (Microsoft)
Software as a Service:
Many AWS services (ex: Rekognition for Machine Learning)
Google Apps (Gmail), Dropbox, Zoom

Pricing of the Cloud – Quick Overview

AWS has 3 pricing fundamentals, following the pay-as-you-go pricing model
Compute:
Pay for compute time
Storage:
Pay for data stored in the Cloud
Data transfer OUT of the Cloud:
Data transfer IN is free
Solves the expensive issue of traditional IT

AWS Cloud Use Cases

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AWS enables you to build sophisticated, scalable applications
Applicable to a diverse set of industries
Use cases include
Enterprise IT, Backup & Storage, Big Data analytics
Website hosting, Mobile & Social Apps
Gaming

AWS Global Infrastructure

AWS Regions
AWS Availability Zones
AWS Data Centers
AWS Edge Locations / Points of Presence
https://infrastructure.aws/

AWS Regions

AWS has Regions all around the world

Names can be us-east-1, eu-west-3…
A region is a cluster of data centers
Most AWS services are region-scoped

How to choose an AWS Region?

If you need to launch a new application, where should you do it?

Compliance with data governance and legal requirements: data never leaves a region without your explicit
permission
Proximity to customers: reduced latency
Available services within a Region: new services and new features aren’t available in every Region
Pricing: pricing varies region to region and is transparent in the service pricing page

AWS Availability Zones

Each region has many availability zones (usually 3, min is 2, max is 6). Example:
ap-southeast-2a
ap-southeast-2b
ap-southeast-2c
Each availability zone (AZ) is one or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and
connectivity
They’re separate from each other, so that they’re isolated from disasters
They’re connected with high bandwidth, ultra-low latency networking

AWS Points of Presence (Edge Locations)

Amazon has 216 Points of Presence (205 Edge Locations & 11 Regional Caches) in 84 cities across 42 countries
Content is delivered to end users with lower latency

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Tour of the AWS Console
AWS has Global Services:
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Route 53 (DNS service)
CloudFront (Content Delivery Network)
WAF (Web Application Firewall)
Most AWS services are Region-scoped:
Amazon EC2 (Infrastructure as a Service)
Elastic Beanstalk (Platform as a Service)
Lambda (Function as a Service)
Rekognition (Software as a Service)
Region Table: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services

Shared Responsibility Model

CUSTOMER = RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE SECURITY IN THE CLOUD
AWS = RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE SECURITY OF THE CLOUD

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