AW S A cade my C l oud Foundat i ons

Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview

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Welcome to Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview.

Module overview

Topics
• Introduction to cloud computing
• Advantages of cloud computing
• Introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

Knowledge check

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This module addresses the following topics:

• Introduction to cloud computing
• Advantages of cloud computing
• Introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

Finally, you will be asked to complete a knowledge check that will be used to test your
understanding of the key concepts that are covered in this module.
Module objectives

After completing this module, you should be able to:

• Define different types of cloud computing models
• Describe six advantages of cloud computing
• Recognize the main AWS service categories and core services
• Review the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

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After completing this module, you should be able to:

• Define different types of cloud computing
• Describe six advantages of cloud computing
• Recognize the main AWS service categories and core services
• Review the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)
Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview

Section 1: Introduction to cloud computing

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Section 1: Introduction to cloud computing

What is cloud computing?

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What does cloud computing mean to you?

Take a moment to think of what cloud computing means to you and write a short
sentence.
Cloud computing defined

Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of compute power, database,

storage, applications, and other IT resources via the internet with pay-as-
you-go pricing.

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Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of compute power, database, storage,

applications, and other IT resources via the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing. These
resources run on server computers that are located in large data centers in different
locations around the world. When you use a cloud service provider like AWS, that
service provider owns the computers that you are using. These resources can be used
together like building blocks to build solutions that help meet business goals and satisfy
technology requirements.

To learn more about cloud computing and how it works, see this AWS webpage.
Infrastructure as software

Cloud computing enables you to stop thinking of your infrastructure as

hardware, and instead think of (and use) it as software.

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Cloud computing enables you to stop thinking of your infrastructure as hardware, and
instead think of (and use) it as software. But what does this mean?
Traditional computing model

• Infrastructure as hardware
• Hardware solutions:
• Require space, staff, physical security,
planning, capital expenditure
• Have a long hardware procurement
cycle
• Require you to provision capacity by
guessing theoretical maximum peaks

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In the traditional computing model, infrastructure is thought of as hardware. Hardware

solutions are physical, which means they require space, staff, physical security, planning,
and capital expenditure.

In addition to significant upfront investment, another prohibitive aspect of traditional

computing is the long hardware procurement cycle that involves acquiring, provisioning,
and maintaining on-premises infrastructure.

With a hardware solution, you must ask if there is enough resource capacity or sufficient
storage to meet your needs, and you provision capacity by guessing theoretical
maximum peaks. If you don’t meet your projected maximum peak, then you pay for
expensive resources that stay idle. If you exceed your projected maximum peak, then
you don’t have sufficient capacity to meet your needs. And if your needs change, then
you must spend the time, effort, and money required to implement a new solution.

For example, if you wanted to provision a new website, you would need to buy the
hardware, rack and stack it, put it in a data center, and then manage it or have someone
else manage it. This approach is expensive and time-consuming.
Cloud computing model

• Infrastructure as software
• Software solutions:
• Are flexible
• Can change more quickly, easily, and
cost-effectively than hardware
solutions
• Eliminate the undifferentiated heavy-
lifting tasks

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By contrast, cloud computing enables you to think of your infrastructure as software.

Software solutions are flexible. You can select the cloud services that best match your
needs, provision and terminate those resources on-demand, and pay for what you use.
You can elastically scale resources up and down in an automated fashion. With the cloud
computing model, you can treat resources as temporary and disposable. The flexibility
that cloud computing offers enables businesses to implement new solutions quickly and
with low upfront costs.

Compared to hardware solutions, software solutions can change much more quickly,
easily, and cost-effectively.

Cloud computing helps developers and IT departments avoid undifferentiated work like
procurement, maintenance, and capacity planning, thus enabling them to focus on what
matters most.

As cloud computing has grown in popularity, several different service models and
deployment strategies have emerged to help meet the specific needs of different users.
Each type of cloud service model and deployment strategy provides you with a different
level of control, flexibility, and management. Understanding the differences between
these cloud service models and deployment strategies can help you decide what set of
services is right for your needs.
Cloud service models

IaaS PaaS SaaS

(infrastructure as a (platform as a (software as a
service) service) service)

More control Less control

over IT resources over IT resources

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There are three main cloud service models. Each model represents a different part of
the cloud computing stack and gives you a different level of control over your IT
resources:

• Infrastructure as a service (IaaS): Services in this category are the basic building
blocks for cloud IT and typically provide you with access to networking features,
computers (virtual or on dedicated hardware), and data storage space. IaaS provides
you with the highest level of flexibility and management control over your IT
resources. It is the most similar to existing IT resources that many IT departments and
developers are familiar with today.

• Platform as a service (PaaS): Services in this category reduce the need for you to
manage the underlying infrastructure (usually hardware and operating systems) and
enable you to focus on the deployment and management of your applications.

• Software as a service (SaaS): Services in this category provide you with a completed
product that the service provider runs and manages. In most cases, software as a
service refers to end-user applications. With a SaaS offering, you do not have to think
about how the service is maintained or how the underlying infrastructure is
managed. You need to think only about how you plan to use that particular piece of
software. A common example of a SaaS application is web-based email, where you
can send and receive email without managing feature additions to the email product
or maintaining the servers and operating systems that the email program runs on.
Cloud computing deployment models

Cloud Hybrid On-premises

(private cloud)

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There are three main cloud computing deployment models, which represent the cloud
environments that your applications can be deployed in:

• Cloud: A cloud-based application is fully deployed in the cloud, and all parts of the
application run in the cloud. Applications in the cloud have either been created in the
cloud or have been migrated from an existing infrastructure to take advantage of the
benefits of cloud computing. Cloud-based applications can be built on low-level
infrastructure pieces or they can use higher-level services that provide abstraction
from the management, architecting, and scaling requirements of core infrastructure.

• Hybrid: A hybrid deployment is a way to connect infrastructure and applications

between cloud-based resources and existing resources that are not located in the
cloud. The most common method of hybrid deployment is between the cloud and
existing on-premises infrastructure. This model enables an organization to extend and
grow their infrastructure into the cloud while connecting cloud resources to internal
systems.

• On-premises: Deploying resources on-premises, using virtualization and resource

management tools, is sometimes called private cloud. While on-premises deployment
does not provide many of the benefits of cloud computing, it is sometimes sought for
its ability to provide dedicated resources. In most cases, this deployment model is the
same as legacy IT infrastructure, but it might also use application management and
virtualization technologies to increase resource utilization.
Similarities between AWS and traditional IT

Traditional, on-premises IT space AWS

Security
Security groups
Firewalls ACLs Administrators Network ACLs IAM

Networking
Router Network pipeline Switch Elastic Load Balancing Amazon VPC

On-premises Compute
servers Amazon EC2
AMI
instances

Storage and
DAS SAN NAS RDBMS
database Amazon EBS Amazon Amazon Amazon RDS
EFS S3

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There are many similarities between AWS and the traditional, on-premises IT space:
• AWS security groups, network access control lists (network ACLs), and AWS Identity
and Access Management (IAM) are similar to firewalls, access control lists (ACLs), and
administrators.
• Elastic Load Balancing and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) are similar to
routers, network pipelines, and switches.
• Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
instances are similar to on-premises servers.
• Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS),
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Relational Database
Service (Amazon RDS) are similar to direct attached storage (DAS), storage area
networks (SAN), network attached storage (NAS), and a relational database
management service (RDBMS).

With AWS services and features, you can do almost everything that you would want to
do with a traditional data center.
 • Cloud computing is the on-demand
Section 1 key delivery of IT resources via the internet
with pay-as-you-go pricing.
takeaways • Cloud computing enables you to think of
(and use) your infrastructure as software.
• There are three cloud service models: IaaS,
PaaS, and SaaS.
• There are three cloud deployment models:
cloud, hybrid, and on-premises or private
cloud.
• Almost anything you can implement with
traditional IT can also be implemented as
an AWS cloud computing service.

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Some key takeaways from this section of the module include:

• Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources via the internet with pay-
as-you-go pricing.
• Cloud computing enables you to think of (and use) your infrastructure as software.
• There are three cloud service models: IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
• There are three cloud deployment models: cloud, hybrid, and on-premises or private
cloud.
• There are many AWS service analogs for the traditional, on-premises IT space.
Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview

Section 2: Advantages of cloud computing

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Section 2: Advantages of cloud computing

Why are so many companies interested in moving to the cloud? This section presents six
advantages of cloud computing.
Trade capital expense for variable expense

Capital

Data center investment Pay only for the amount

based on forecast you consume

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Advantage #1—Trade capital expense for variable expense: Capital expenses (capex)
are funds that a company uses to acquire, upgrade, and maintain physical assets such as
property, industrial buildings, or equipment. Do you remember the data center example
in the traditional computing model where you needed to rack and stack the hardware,
and then manage it all? You must pay for everything in the data center whether you use
it or not.

By contrast, a variable expense is an expense that the person who bears the cost can
easily alter or avoid. Instead of investing heavily in data centers and servers before you
know how you will use them, you can pay only when you consume resources and pay
only for the amount you consume. Thus, you save money on technology. It also enables
you to adapt to new applications with as much space as you need in minutes, instead of
weeks or days. Maintenance is reduced, so you can spend focus more on the core goals
of your business.
Massive economies of scale
Because of aggregate usage from all customers, AWS can achieve
higher economies of scale and pass savings on to customers.

AWS Cloud

Economies of scale Savings

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Advantage #2—Benefit from massive economies of scale: By using cloud computing,

you can achieve a lower variable cost than you can get on your own. Because usage from
hundreds of thousands of customers is aggregated in the cloud, providers such as AWS
can achieve higher economies of scale, which translates into lower pay-as-you-go prices.
Stop guessing capacity

Overestimated Underestimated Scaling on demand

server capacity server capacity

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Advantage #3—Stop guessing capacity: Eliminate guessing about your infrastructure

capacity needs. When you make a capacity decision before you deploy an application,
you often either have expensive idle resources or deal with limited capacity. With cloud
computing, these problems go away. You can access as much or as little as you need,
and scale up and down as required with only a few minutes’ notice.
Increase speed and agility

Launch

Weeks between wanting Minutes between wanting

resources and having resources resources and having resources

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Advantage #4—Increase speed and agility: In a cloud computing environment, new IT

resources are only a click away, which means that you reduce the time it takes to make
those resources available to your developers from weeks to just minutes. The result is a
dramatic increase in agility for the organization because the cost and time that it takes
to experiment and develop are significantly lower.
Stop spending money on
running and maintaining data centers

Investment

Running data centers Business and customers

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Advantage #5—Stop spending money on running and maintaining data centers: Focus
on projects that differentiate your business instead of focusing on the infrastructure.
Cloud computing enables you to focus on your own customers instead of the heavy
lifting of racking, stacking, and powering servers.
Go global in minutes

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Advantage #6—Go global in minutes: You can deploy your application in multiple AWS
Regions around the world with just a few clicks. As a result, you can provide a lower
latency and better experience for your customers simply and at minimal cost.
 • Trade capital expense for variable
Section 2 key expense
takeaways • Benefit from massive economies of
scale
• Stop guessing capacity
• Increase speed and agility
• Stop spending money on running
and maintaining data centers
• Go global in minutes

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The key takeaways from this section of the module include the six advantages of cloud
computing:
• Trade capital expense for variable expense
• Massive economies of scale
• Stop guessing capacity
• Increase speed and agility
• Stop spending money on running and maintaining data centers
• Go global in minutes
Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview
Section 3: Introduction to Amazon Web Services
(AWS)

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Section 3: Introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS)

What are web services?

A web service is any piece of software that makes itself available over the
internet and uses a standardized format—such as Extensible Markup
Language (XML) or JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)—for the request and
the response of an application programming interface (API) interaction.

Request message

Internet
Response message
Client Web service

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In general, a web service is any piece of software that makes itself available over the
internet or on private (intranet) networks. A web service uses a standardized format—
such as Extensible Markup Language (XML) or JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)—for
the request and the response of an application programming interface (API) interaction.
It is not tied to any one operating system or programming language. It’s self-describing
via an interface definition file and it is discoverable.
What is AWS?

• AWS is a secure cloud platform that offers a broad set of global cloud-
based products.
• AWS provides you with on-demand access to compute, storage, network,
database, and other IT resources and management tools.
• AWS offers flexibility.
• You pay only for the individual services you need, for as long as you use
them.
• AWS services work together like building blocks.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud platform that offers a broad set of global cloud-
based products. Because these products are delivered over the internet, you have on-demand
access to the compute, storage, network, database, and other IT resources that you might need
for your projects—and the tools to manage them. You can immediately provision and launch
AWS resources. The resources are ready for you to use in minutes.

AWS offers flexibility. Your AWS environment can be reconfigured and updated on demand,
scaled up or down automatically to meet usage patterns and optimize spending, or shut down
temporarily or permanently. The billing for AWS services becomes an operational expense
instead of a capital expense.

AWS services are designed to work together to support virtually any type of application or
workload. Think of these services like building blocks, which you can assemble quickly to build
sophisticated, scalable solutions, and then adjust them as your needs change.
 Categories of AWS services

Analytics Application AR and VR Blockchain Business Compute

Integration Applications

Cost Customer Database Developer Tools End User Game Tech

Management Engagement Computing

Internet Machine Management and Media Services Migration and Mobile

of Things Learning Governance Transfer

Networking and Robotics Satellite Security, Identity, and Storage

Content Delivery Compliance
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AWS services fall under different categories, and each category contains one or more
services. You can select the services that you want from these different categories to
build your solutions.
Simple solution example

Networking Compute Database Storage

AWS Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Amazon
DynamoDB
Users Amazon S3

Amazon EC2

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For example, say you’re building a database application. Your customers might be
sending data to your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, which is a
service in the compute category. These EC2 servers batch the data in one-minute
increments and add an object per customer to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon
S3), the AWS storage service you’ve chosen to use. You can then use a nonrelational
database like Amazon DynamoDB to power your application, for example, to build an
index so that you can find all the objects for a given customer that were collected over a
certain period. You might decide to run these services inside an Amazon Virtual Private
Cloud (Amazon VPC), which is a service in the networking category.

The purpose of this simple example is to illustrate that you can select web services from
different categories and use them together to build a solution (in this case, a database
application). Of course, the solutions you build can be quite complex.
 Choosing a service
The service you select depends on your business goals and technology
requirements.
Amazon
VMware Cloud EC2 AWS
on AWS Lambda

Amazon ECS ? AWS Elastic

Beanstalk

Amazon EKS

Amazon
AWS Fargate
AWS Outposts Lightsail
AWS Batch
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Which service you choose to use will depend on your business goals and technology
requirements. In the example you just looked at, the solution made use of Amazon EC2
as the compute service. However, that is only one of many compute services that AWS
offers. Here are some other AWS compute offerings that you might choose to use for the
following example use cases:

• Amazon EC2: You want complete control over your AWS computing resources.
• AWS Lambda: You want to run your code and not manage or provision servers.
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk: You want a service that deploys, manages, and scales your
web applications for you.
• Amazon Lightsail: You need a lightweight cloud platform for a simple web application.
• AWS Batch: You need to run hundreds of thousands of batch workloads.
• AWS Outposts: You want to run AWS infrastructure in your on-premises data center.
• Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
(Amazon EKS), or AWS Fargate: You want to implement a containers or microservices
architecture.
• VMware Cloud on AWS: You have an on-premises server virtualization platform that
you want to migrate to AWS.

Similarly, there are a variety of services for you to choose from in the other categories,
and the number of offerings keeps growing.
 Services covered in this course
Compute services – Storage services – Management and
• Amazon EC2 • Amazon S3 Governance services –
• AWS Lambda • Amazon S3 Glacier • AWS Trusted Advisor
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk • Amazon EFS • AWS CloudWatch
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling • Amazon EBS • AWS CloudTrail
• Amazon ECS • AWS Well-Architected Tool
• Amazon EKS Database services – • AWS Auto Scaling
• Amazon ECR • Amazon RDS • AWS Command Line Interface
• AWS Fargate • Amazon DynamoDB • AWS Config
• Amazon Redshift • AWS Management Console
• Amazon Aurora • AWS Organizations
Security, Identity, and
Compliance services – Networking and Content AWS Cost Management
• AWS IAM Delivery services – services –
• Amazon Cognito • Amazon VPC • AWS Cost & Usage
• AWS Shield • Amazon Route 53 Report
• AWS Artifact • Amazon CloudFront • AWS Budgets
• AWS KMS • Elastic Load Balancing • AWS Cost Explorer
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The array of AWS services can be intimidating as you start your journey into the cloud.
This course focuses on some of the more common services in the following service
categories: compute, storage, database, networking and content delivery, security,
identity, and compliance, management and governance, and AWS cost management.

Legend:
• Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
• Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)
• Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
• Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
• Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
• Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
Three ways to interact with AWS

AWS Management Console

Easy-to-use graphical interface

Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

Access to services by discrete commands or scripts

Software Development Kits (SDKs)

Access services directly from your code (such as Java, Python, and others)

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You might wonder how to access the broad array of services that are offered by AWS.
There are three ways to create and manage resources on the AWS Cloud:
• AWS Management Console: The console provides a rich graphical interface to a
majority of the features offered by AWS. (Note: From time to time, new features
might not have all of their capabilities included in the console when the feature
initially launches.)
• AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI): The AWS CLI provides a suite of utilities
that can be launched from a command script in Linux, macOS, or Microsoft Windows.
• Software development kits (SDKs): AWS provides packages that enable accessing
AWS in a variety of popular programming languages. This makes it easy to use AWS in
your existing applications and it also enables you to create applications that deploy
and monitor complex systems entirely through code.

All three options are built on a common REST-like API that serves as the foundation of
AWS.

To learn more about tools you can use to develop and manage applications on AWS, see
Tools to Build on AWS.
 • AWS is a secure cloud platform that offers
Section 3 key a broad set of global cloud-based products
takeaways called services that are designed to work
together.
• There are many categories of AWS
services, and each category has many
services to choose from.
• Choose a service based on your business
goals and technology requirements.
• There are three ways to interact with AWS
services.

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The key takeaways from this section of the module include:

• AWS is a secure cloud platform that offers a broad set of global cloud-based products
called services that are designed to work together.
• There are many categories of AWS services, and each category has many services to
choose from.
• Choose a service based on your business goals and technology requirements.
• There are three ways to interact with AWS services.
Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview
Section 4: Moving to the AWS Cloud – The AWS Cloud
Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

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Section 4: Moving to the AWS Cloud – The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

As you learned so far in this module, cloud computing offers many advantages over the
traditional model. However, for most organizations, cloud adoption does not happen
instantly. Technology is one thing, but an organization also consists of people and
processes, and these three elements must all be in alignment for successful cloud
adoption. Cloud computing introduces a significant shift in how technology is obtained,
used, and managed. It also shifts how organizations budget and pay for technology
services. Cloud adoption requires that fundamental changes are discussed and
considered across an entire organization. It also requires that stakeholders across all
organizational units—both within and outside IT—support these new changes. In this
last section, you learn about the AWS CAF, which was created to help organizations
design and travel an accelerated path to successful cloud adoption.
AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

• AWS CAF provides guidance and

best practices to help
organizations build a
comprehensive approach to cloud
computing across the organization
and throughout the IT lifecycle to
accelerate successful cloud
AWS CAF perspectives adoption.
• AWS CAF is organized into six
perspectives.
• Perspectives consist of sets of
capabilities.
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Each organization’s cloud adoption journey is unique. However, in order for any
organization to successfully migrate its IT portfolio to the cloud, three elements (that is,
people, process, and technology) must be in alignment. Business and technology leaders
in an organization must understand the organization’s current state, target state, and the
transition that is needed to achieve the target state so they can set goals and create
processes for staff.

The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) provides guidance and best practices to
help organizations identify gaps in skills and processes. It also helps organizations build a
comprehensive approach to cloud computing—both across the organization and
throughout the IT lifecycle—to accelerate successful cloud adoption.

At the highest level, the AWS CAF organizes guidance into six areas of focus, called
perspectives. Perspectives span people, processes, and technology. Each perspective
consists of a set of capabilities, which covers distinct responsibilities that are owned or
managed by functionally related stakeholders.

Capabilities within each perspective are used to identify which areas of an organization
require attention. By identifying gaps, prescriptive work streams can be created that
support a successful cloud journey.
Six core perspectives

Focus on business Focus on technical

capabilities capabilities

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In general, the Business, People, and Governance perspectives focus on business

capabilities, while the Platform, Security, and Operations perspectives focus on technical
capabilities.
Business perspective

We must ensure that IT is aligned with business

needs, and that IT investments can be traced to
demonstrable business results.
IT finance

IT strategy

Benefits realization

Business risk management

Business managers, finance
Business perspective capabilities managers, budget owners,
and strategy stakeholders
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Stakeholders from the Business perspective (for example, business managers, finance
managers, budget owners, and strategy stakeholders) can use the AWS CAF to create a
strong business case for cloud adoption and prioritize cloud adoption initiatives.
Stakeholders should ensure that an organization’s business strategies and goals align
with its IT strategies and goals.
People perspective

We must prioritize training, staffing,

and organizational changes to build
an agile organization.
Resource management

Incentive management

Career management

Training management

Organizational change
management
Human resources, staffing,
and people managers
People perspective capabilities

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Stakeholders from the People perspective (for example, human resources, staffing, and
people managers) can use the AWS CAF to evaluate organizational structures and roles,
new skill and process requirements, and identify gaps. Performing an analysis of needs
and gaps can help prioritize training, staffing, and organizational changes to build an
agile organization.
Governance perspective

We must ensure that skills and processes align IT strategy and

goals with business strategy and goals so the organization can
maximize the business value of its IT investment and minimize
Portfolio management business risks.

Program and
project management

Business performance
measurement

License management

Governance perspective capabilities

CIO, program managers, enterprise
architects, business analysts, and
portfolio managers
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Stakeholders from the Governance perspective (for example, the Chief Information
Officer or CIO, program managers, enterprise architects, business analysts, and portfolio
managers) can use the AWS CAF to focus on the skills and processes that are needed to
align IT strategy and goals with business strategy and goals. This focus helps the
organization maximize the business value of its IT investment and minimize the business
risks.
Platform perspective

We must understand and communicate the nature

of IT systems and their relationships. We must be
Compute provisioning
able to describe the architecture of the target state
environment in detail.
Network provisioning

Storage provisioning

Database provisioning

Systems and solution

architecture
CTO, IT managers, and
Application development solutions architects
Platform perspective capabilities
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Stakeholders from the Platform perspective (for example, Chief Technology Officer or
CTO, IT managers, and solutions architects) use a variety of architectural dimensions and
models to understand and communicate the nature of IT systems and their relationships.
They must be able to describe the architecture of the target state environment in detail.
The AWS CAF includes principles and patterns for implementing new solutions on the
cloud, and for migrating on-premises workloads to the cloud.
Security perspective

We must ensure that the organization meets its

security objectives.
Identity and access
management

Detective control

Infrastructure security

Data protection

CISO, IT security managers,

Incident response and IT security analysts

Security perspective capabilities

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Stakeholders from the Security perspective (for example, Chief Information Security
Officer or CISO, IT security managers, and IT security analysts) must ensure that the
organization meets security objectives for visibility, auditability, control, and agility.
Security perspective stakeholders can use the AWS CAF to structure the selection and
implementation of security controls that meet the organization’s needs.
Operations perspective

We align with and support the operations of the

Service monitoring
business, and define how day-to-day, quarter-to-
quarter, and year-to-year business will be
Application performance
monitoring
conducted.
Resource inventory
management
Release management/
change management

Reporting and analytics

Business continuity/
Disaster recovery
IT operations managers and
IT support managers
IT service catalog

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Stakeholders from the Operations perspective (for example, IT operations managers and
IT support managers) define how day-to-day, quarter-to-quarter, and year-to-year
business is conducted. Stakeholders from the Operations perspective align with and
support the operations of the business. The AWS CAF helps these stakeholders define
current operating procedures. It also helps them identify the process changes and
training that are needed to implement successful cloud adoption.
 • Cloud adoption is not instantaneous for
Section 4 key most organizations and requires a
takeaways thoughtful, deliberate strategy and
alignment across the whole organization.
• The AWS CAF was created to help
organizations develop efficient and
effective plans for their cloud adoption
journey.
• The AWS CAF organizes guidance into six
areas of focus, called perspectives.
• Perspectives consist of sets of business or
technology capabilities that are the
responsibility of key stakeholders.

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The key takeaways from this section of the module include:

• Cloud adoption is not instantaneous for most organizations and requires a thoughtful,
deliberate strategy and alignment across the whole organization.
• The AWS CAF was created to help organizations develop efficient and effective plans
for their cloud adoption journey.
• The AWS CAF organizes guidance into six areas of focus, called perspectives.
• Perspectives consist of sets of business or technology capabilities that are the
responsibility of key stakeholders.
Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview

Module wrap-up

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It’s now time to review the module, and wrap up with a knowledge check and discussion
of a practice certification exam question.
Module summary

In summary, in this module you learned how to:

• Define different types of cloud computing models
• Describe six advantages of cloud computing
• Recognize the main AWS service categories and core services
• Review the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework

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In summary, in this module you learned how to:

• Define different types of cloud computing
• Describe six advantages of cloud computing
• Recognize the main AWS service categories and core services
• Reviewed the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework

To finish this module, complete the knowledge check.

Complete the knowledge check

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Now, complete the knowledge check.

Sample exam question

Why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with varying
compute workloads?

A. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) costs are billed on a monthly basis.
B. Customers retain full administrative access to their Amazon EC2 instances.
C. Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on-demand when needed.
D. Customers can permanently run enough instances to handle peak workloads.

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Look at the answer choices and rule them out based on the keywords that were
previously highlighted.
Additional resources

• What is AWS? YouTube video

• Cloud computing with AWS website
• Overview of Amazon Web Services whitepaper
• An Overview of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework whitepaper
• 6 Strategies for Migrating Applications to the Cloud AWS Cloud Enterprise
Strategy blog post

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If you want to learn more about the topics covered in this module, you might find the
following additional resources helpful:
• What is AWS? YouTube video
• Cloud computing with AWS website
• Overview of Amazon Web Services whitepaper
• An Overview of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework whitepaper
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