AWS Cloud Practitioner/Technology
Technology
Objectives and Skills
editObjectives and skills for the technology portion of AWS Cloud Practitioner certification include:[1]
- 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
editMultimedia
editActivities
edit- Complete AWS: Cloud Practitioner Essentials Modules 4 - 5.
Lesson Summary
editDefine methods of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud
edit- Ways to interact with AWS services include:[2]
- Management Console
- Command Line Interface
- Software Development Kits
Define the AWS global infrastructure
edit- AWS infrastructure includes:[3]
- 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:[4]
- 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.[5]
Identify the core AWS services
edit- Core AWS services include:[6]
- 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
- Compute