AWS Cloud Practitioner/Technology

Technology

Objectives and Skills
Objectives and skills for the technology portion of AWS Cloud Practitioner certification include:
 * Define methods of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud
 * Define the AWS global infrastructure
 * Identify the core AWS services
 * Identify resources for technology support

Readings

 * 1) AWS: Architecting for the Cloud
 * 2) AWS: Compare AWS Support Plans

Multimedia

 * 1) YouTube: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Training
 * 2) YouTube: Practice Questions Walkthrough for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (3/4)

Activities

 * 1) Complete AWS: Cloud Practitioner Essentials Modules 4 - 5.

Define methods of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud

 * Ways to interact with AWS services include:
 * Management Console
 * Command Line Interface
 * Software Development Kits

Define the AWS global infrastructure

 * AWS infrastructure includes:
 * Regions - a discrete geographic data boundary containing at least two availability zones.
 * Availability zones - one or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity.
 * Select regions based on:
 * Compliance with data governance and legal requirements
 * Proximity to your customers
 * Available services within a Region
 * Pricing
 * An edge location is a site that Amazon CloudFront uses to store cached copies of your content closer to your customers for faster delivery.

Identify the core AWS services

 * Core AWS services include:
 * Compute
 * EC2
 * Elastic Beanstalk
 * Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
 * Lambda
 * Lightsail
 * Storage
 * S3
 * Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
 * Snowball
 * Storage Gateway
 * Databases
 * DynamoDB
 * RDS
 * Aurora
 * Redshift
 * Network
 * VPC
 * CloudFront
 * Route 53
 * Management
 * CloudFormation
 * CloudTrail
 * CloudWatch
 * Other
 * Application Autoscaling
 * Simple Notification Service (SNS)
 * Simple Queue Service (SQS)
 * Elastic Container Service (ECS)
 * Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
 * Fargate
 * Direct Connect