AWS Cloud Practitioner Overview

The Cloud Practitioner course is broken down into 4 domains: Cloud Concepts, Security and Compliance, Technology, and Billing and Pricing.  

Cloud Concepts

This section covers the basics of cloud computing. You’ll learn about the different cloud architecture design principles and the key benefits of AWS cloud computing.

1.1 Define the AWS Cloud and its value

• Describe the benefits of AWS cloud computing
  • Security
  • Reliability
  • High Availability
  • Elasticity
  • Agility
  • Pay-as-you-go pricing
  • Scalability
  • Global Reach
  • Economy of scale

1.2 Identify aspects of AWS Cloud economics

• Total Cost of Ownership Proposal
• Identify costs that could be reduced by moving to the cloud

1.3 Cloud architecture design principles

• Design for failure
• Compare decoupled components and monolithic architecture
• Cloud versus on-premises

Security and Compliance

This section covers security in AWS. Users are responsible for their data or anything they put into the cloud. AWS is responsible for the underlying infrastructure and physical security. AWS offers many options and additional services for enabling greater security.

2.1 Define the AWS shared responsibility model

• The customer’s responsibility on AWS
• AWS responsibilities

2.2 Define AWS Cloud security and compliance concepts

• Enabling encryption on AWS for a given service
• Services for auditing and reporting
• Concept of least privileged access

2.3 Identify AWS access management capabilities

• The purpose of User and Identity Management
• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Groups/Users
  • Roles
  • Policies