Module 1: Cloud Concepts

Overview
AWS Academy Cloud Foundations

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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

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Section 1: Introduction to cloud
computing
Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview

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What is cloud computing?

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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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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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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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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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Cloud service models

IaaS PaaS SaaS

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

More control Less control

over IT resources over IT resources

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Cloud computing deployment models

Cloud Hybrid On-premises

(private cloud)

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Similarities between AWS and traditional IT

Traditional, on-premises IT space AWS

Security
Security groups
Firewalls ACLs Administrators Network IAM
ACLs

Networking
Router Network pipeline Switch Elastic Load BalancingAmazon VPC

On- Compute
premises Amazon EC2
AMI
servers instances

RDBM Storage and

DAS SAN NAS S database Amazon Amazon Amazon Amazon
EBS EFS S3 RDS

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Section 2: Advantages of cloud
computing
Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview

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Trade capital expense for variable expense

Capital

Data center investment Pay only for the

based on forecast amount
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.

AWS Cloud

Economies of scale Savings

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Stop guessing capacity

Overestimated Underestimated Scaling on

server capacity server capacity demand

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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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Stop spending money on
running and maintaining data centers

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Running data centers Business and customers

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Go global in minutes

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Section 3: Introduction to
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview

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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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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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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, Storage

Content Delivery and
Compliance
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Simple solution example

Networkin Comput Database Storage

g e
AWS Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Amazon
DynamoD
Users B Amazon S3

Amazon EC2

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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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 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
• AWS Fargate • Amazon DynamoDB Interface
• Amazon Redshift • AWS Config
• Amazon Aurora • AWS Management Console
Security, Identity, and • AWS Organizations
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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Three ways to interact with AWS

AWS Management
Console graphical interface
Easy-to-use

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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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

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