Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview

AWS Academy Cloud Foundations

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

More control Less control

over IT over IT
resources 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
Firewall ACL Administrators Network ACLs IA
s s M

Networking
Route Network pipeline Switc Elastic Load Amazon VPC
r h Balancing
On-premises Compute
Amazon EC2
AM
servers instances
I

RDBM Storage and

DA SA NA S database Amazon Amazon Amazon Amazon
S N S EBS EFS S3 RDS

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 • Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT
Section 1 key resources via the internet with pay-as-you-go
takeaways 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.
• Almost anything you can implement with traditional
IT can also be implemented as an AWS cloud
computing service.

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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 amount

based on 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.

AWS Cloud

Economies of Saving
s
scale

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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 resources Minutes between wanting

and having resources resources and having
resources
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Stop spending money on
running and maintaining data centers

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Go global in minutes

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Section 2 key • Trade capital expense for variable 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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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 Blockchain Business Compute

Integration VR Applications

Cost Customer Databas Developer Tools End User Game Tech

Management Engagement e Computing

Internet Machine Management and Media Migration and Mobile

of Things Learning Governance Services Transfer

Networking and Robotics Satellite Security, Identity, and Storage

Content Delivery Compliance
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Simple solution example

Networking Compute Database Storage

AWS Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Amazon
DynamoDB
User Amazon S3
s

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 ? AWS Elastic

ECS
Beanstalk
Amazon
EKS
Amazon
AWS
AWS Outposts Lightsail
Fargate
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 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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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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 • AWS is a secure cloud platform that offers a broad
Section 3 key set of global cloud-based products called services
takeaways 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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Section 4: Moving to the AWS Cloud
– The AWS Cloud Adoption
Framework (AWS CAF)
Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview

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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
AWS CAF successful cloud adoption.
perspectives
• AWS CAF is organized into six
perspectives.
• Perspectives consist of sets of
capabilities.
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Six core perspectives

Focus on Focus on technical

business
capabilities capabilities

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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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People perspective

We must prioritize training, staffing, and

organizational changes to build an agile
Resource management
organization.

Incentive management

Career management

Training management

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

We must ensure that skills and processes align IT

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

We must understand and communicate the

nature of IT systems and their relationships.
Compute provisioning
We must be 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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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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Operations perspective

We align with and support the operations of the

business, and define how day-to-day, quarter-
to-quarter, and year-to-year business will be
conducted.

IT operations managers and

IT support managers

Operations perspective
capabilities
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 • Cloud adoption is not instantaneous for most
Section 4 key organizations and requires a thoughtful, deliberate
takeaways 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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Module wrap-up
Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview

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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
• Review the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework

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Complete the knowledge check

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

Choice Response

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

The correct answer is C.

The keywords in the question are AWS is more economical than traditional data centers for
applications with varying.

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Additional resources
• What is AWS? YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ5H8sn_2ZI&feature=youtu.be
• Cloud computing with AWS website: https://aws.amazon.com/what-is-aws/
• Overview of Amazon Web Services whitepaper:
https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-overview.pdf
• An Overview of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework whitepaper:
https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws_cloud_adoption_framework.pdf
• 6 Strategies for Migrating Applications to the Cloud AWS Cloud Enterprise Strategy
blog post:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/enterprise-strategy/6-strategies-for-migrating-applic
ations-to-the-cloud/

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