AWS Cloud Practitioner

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Domain 1: Cloud Concepts[edit]

1.1 Define the AWS Cloud and its value proposition[edit]

Define the benefits of the AWS cloud including:

Explain how the AWS cloud allows users to focus on business value

  • Shifting technical resources to revenue-generating activities as opposed to managing

infrastructure

1.2 Identify aspects of AWS Cloud economics[edit]

Define items that would be part of a Total Cost of Ownership proposal

  • Understand the role of operational expenses (OpEx)
  • Understand the role of capital expenses (CapEx)
  • Understand labor costs associated with on-premises operations
  • Understand the impact of software licensing costs when moving to the cloud

Identify which operations will reduce costs by moving to the cloud:

  • Right-sized infrastructure
  • Benefits of automation
  • Reduce compliance scope (for example, reporting)
  • Managed services (for example, RDS, ECS, EKS, DynamoDB)

1.3 Explain the different cloud architecture design principles[edit]

Explain the design principles:

  • Design for failure
  • Decouple components versus monolithic architecture
  • Implement elasticity in the cloud versus on-premises
  • Think parallel

Domain 2: Security and Compliance[edit]

2.1 Define the AWS shared responsibility model[edit]

Recognize the elements of the Shared Responsibility Model Describe the customer’s responsibility on AWS

  • Describe how the customer’s responsibilities may shift depending on the service used

(for example with RDS, Lambda, or EC2)

  • Describe AWS responsibilities

2.2 Define AWS Cloud security and compliance concepts[edit]

Identify where to find AWS compliance information:

  • Locations of lists of recognized available compliance controls (for example, HIPPA,

SOCs)

  • Recognize that compliance requirements vary among AWS services

At a high level, describe how customers achieve compliance on AWS

Describe who enables encryption on AWS for a given service

Recognize there are services that will aid in auditing and reporting

  • Recognize that logs exist for auditing and monitoring (do not have to understand the

logs)

Explain the concept of least privileged access

2.3 Identify AWS access management capabilities[edit]

Understand the purpose of User and Identity Management:

Protection of root accounts

2.4 Identify resources for security support[edit]

Recognize there are different network security capabilities:

rd party security products from the AWS Marketplace

  • Recognize there is documentation and where to find it (for example, best practices,

whitepapers, official documents)

Know that security checks are a component of AWS Trusted Advisor

Domain 3: Technology[edit]

3.1 Define methods of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud[edit]

Identify at a high level different ways of provisioning and operating in the AWS cloud:

Identify different types of cloud deployment models:

Identify connectivity options:

3.2 Define the AWS global infrastructure[edit]

Describe the relationships among Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge Locations.

Describe how to achieve high availability through the use of multiple Availability Zones:

  • Recall that high availability is achieved by using multiple Availability Zones
  • Recognize that Availability Zones do not share single points of failure

Describe when to consider the use of multiple AWS Regions:

Describe at a high level the benefits of Edge Locations:

3.3 Identify the core AWS services[edit]

Describe the categories of services on AWS (compute, storage, network, database).

Identify AWS compute services:

  • Recognize there are different compute families
  • Recognize the different services that provide compute (for example, AWS Lambda

compared to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), or Amazon EC2, etc.)

  • Recognize that elasticity is achieved through Auto Scaling
  • Identify the purpose of load balancers

Identify different AWS storage services:

Identify AWS networking services:

Identify different AWS database services:

  • Install databases on Amazon EC2 compared to AWS managed database

See also[edit]

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