AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

Course goals

Goals Audience
• Value proposition • Sales
• Global infrastructure • Legal
• Key services • Marketing
• Security and compliance • Business analysts
• Architecture • Project managers
• Pricing • Other IT-related professionals
• Support

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Course modules

1. Introduction to the AWS Cloud

2. Getting started with the cloud
3. Building in the cloud
4. Secure your cloud applications
5. Support your cloud applications
6. Architecture

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Logistics

• Facility:
• Emergency exits
• Fire alarm protocol
• Security
• Breaks and lunch
• Cell phones

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Module 1: Introduction to the AWS Cloud
Module goals

• Define the cloud

• Compare cloud vs on premises
• State the benefits of the AWS Cloud
• Identify AWS service categories
• Describe AWS physical architecture
• Interact with AWS

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What is the AWS Cloud?

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What is the cloud?

On premises Internet

Servers
Cloud services provider
Storage
Servers Storage
Databases Databases Applications
Applications

Corp
network Internet

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How does it work?
• AWS owns and maintains the network-connected hardware
• You provision and use what you need

Storage Database Business

Applications

Compute Networking & Internet of

Content Things
Delivery

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Cloud deployment models

On premises Hybrid Cloud

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What are the benefits of the AWS Cloud?

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Trade capital expense for variable expense

Capital

Data center investment Pay only for the amount

based upon forecast you consume

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Massive economies of scale

Because of aggregate usage from all customers, AWS can achieve higher
economies of scale and pass savings on to customers

Savings

Economies of scale

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Stop guessing capacity

Overestimated Underestimated Scaling on demand

server capacity server capacity

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Increase speed and agility

Launch

Weeks between wanting Minutes between wanting

resources and having resources resources and having resources

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running and maintaining datacenters

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 Go global in minutes

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AWS security

Keep your data safe

Meet compliance requirements

Save money

Scale quickly
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AWS service categories

Analytics Application Integration AR & VR AWS Cost Management Blockchain

Business Applications Compute Customer Engagement Database Developer Tools

End User Computing Game Tech Internet of Things Machine Learning Management & Governance

Networking &
Media Services Migration & Transfer Mobile Content Delivery Robotics

Satellite Security, Identity & Storage

Compliance
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AWS global infrastructure

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Regions

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# AWS Regions
# Availability Zones
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Planned Regions 3

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Availability Zones

ap-southeast-1
(Singapore)

datacenter(s) datacenter(s)

ap-southeast-1a ap-southeast-1b

datacenter(s)

ap-southeast-1c

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Selecting a region

Data governance, legal

requirements

Proximity to customers
(latency)
Determine the right region for
your services, applications, and Services available
within the region
data based on these factors

Costs (vary by region)

Edge locations: Reaching distant
customers

Edge locations

Multiple edge locations

Regional edge caches

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AWS management interfaces

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Three ways to interact with AWS

AWS Management Console

Easy-to-use graphical interface

Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

Access to services by discrete command

Software Development Kits (SDKs)

Access services in your code

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AWS Management Console

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AWS CLI

• Open source tool for

interacting with AWS services

• Environments ~aws
• Linux
• MacOS
• Windows

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AWS SDKs

JavaScript Go
Python Node.js
PHP C++
.NET Java
Ruby IoT
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Key takeaways

• With a pay-as-you-go pricing, cloud services platform AWS delivers:

• Compute power
• Storage
• Database services
• Other resources
• Regions and Availability Zones are more highly available, fault tolerant, and
scalable than traditional datacenter infrastructures.
• AWS supports three different management interfaces to access your account:
• Web-based AWS Management Console (mobile app as well)
• CLI
• SDKs
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