Description: The Fundamental-Level Course Is Intended For Individuals Who Seek An Overall
Description: The Fundamental-Level Course Is Intended For Individuals Who Seek An Overall
understanding of the AWS Cloud, independent of specific technical roles. It provides a detailed
overview of cloud concepts, AWS services, security, architecture, pricing, and support.
This course also helps you prepare for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam. Intended
Audience This course is intended for: Sales Legal Marketing Business analysts Project
managers AWS Academy students Other IT-related professionals
Course Objectives:
In this course, you will learn how to:
Define what the cloud is and how it works Differentiate between cloud computing and
deployment models Describe the AWS Cloud value proposition Describe the basic global
infrastructure of the cloud Compare the different methods of interacting with AWS Describe and
differentiate between AWS service domains Describe the Well-Architected Framework Describe
basic AWS Cloud architectural principles Explain the Shared Responsibility model Describe
security services with the AWS cloud Define the billing, account management, and pricing
models for the AWS platform.
vi.
Knowledge check
1. What are the benefits of using amazon ec2 instances
compared to physical servers in your infrastructure?
Resizable, pay for what you ues, ability to have different
storage requirements.
vii. Amazon elastic block store (amazon ebs)
1. Persistent block storage for instances
2. Protected through replication
3. Different drive types
4. Scale up or down in minutes
5. Pay for what you provision
6. Snapshot functionality
viii. S3 not just a storage bucket
1. Requester pays
2. Versioning
3. Hosting static websites
4. Object lifestyle management
5. Clouldwatch benefits
a. Access all your metrics from a single platform
b. Maintain visibility across your applications, infrastructure, and services
c. Reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) and improve total cost of
ownership
d. Drive insights to optimize application and operational resources
e. Pay as you go
6. Manage demand efficiently
7. Why scaling matters
a. Amazon ec2 auto scaling adjusts capacity as needed
i. Scale out for spikes
ii. Scale in during off peak
iii. Replace unhealthy instances
iv. Pay only for what you use
b. Dynamic scaling with amazon ec2 auto scaling
c. Fleet management with amazon ec2 auto scaling
j. Knowledge check
i. Which of the following is a key value (noSQL) database?
Amazon dynamoDB
k. Automate deployment
l. What is aws cloud formation?
C. Security: Review
1. Security is the highest priority
2. The shared responsibility model defines security responsibilities between
AWS and the customer
3. IAM controls access to AWS services and resources securely
4. Amazon inspector assesses the security of your AWS resource
5. AWS shield protects applications running on AWS against DDoS attacks
6. AWS security assurance programs help customers maintain security and
data compliance
V. Domain 3: Technology
1. 3.1 define methodology of deploying and operating in the AWS cloud
2. 3.2 define the AWS global infrastructure
3. 3.3 identify the core AWS services
4. 3.4 identify resources for the technology support
VI. Domain 4: Billing and Pricing
1. 4.1 compare and contrast the various pricing models for AWS
2. 4.2 recognize the various account structures in relation to AWS billing and
pricing
3. 4.3 identify resources available for billing support
B. Next Steps