AWS CLOUD PRACTITIONER FOUNDATION COURSE (CLF-01)

PARTS:

- Cloud Computing Fundamentals 26%

- Technology tools & services 25%
- Security & Compliance 33%
- Billing & Pricing 16%

PART 1: CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS

*AVAILABILITY ZONES (AZ) have multiple data centers.

*EDGE LOCATION is only used to cache content. It cannot run an EC2 instance. CloudFront makes use of
Edge Location to deliver cached content. They reduce latency (i.e amt of time it takes for ur website to
load/launch).

*LOW LATENCY is a good sign in Cloud computing.

*Multi-AZ deployments provide high availability and reduce latency.

PART 2: TECHNOLOGY

i) Compute
ii) Storage
iii) Content Delivery
iv) Networking
v) Database
vi) Migration & Transfer
vii) Analytics
viii) Machine Learning
ix) Developer Tools
x) Deployment & Infrastructure Mgt
xi) Messaging & Integration
xii) Auditing, Monitoring & Logging

A) COMPUTE SERVICES:
i) EC2
ii) AWS LAMBDA
iii) CONTAINERS (Fargate, Lightsail, AWS Batch, Outposts)

EC2: *Amazon EC2 service provides a secure & resizable compute platform with choice of processor,
storage, networking, OS, & purchase model.
*You can deploy/provision a database to an EC2 instance.

*You can deploy EC2 to multiple AZ to make ur website/app highly available.

*You can access your EC2 instance via; AWS Mgt Console, SSH on local computer, EC2 instance connect
(EIC), AWS Systems manager.

( SSH – Generate Keypair – Connect it via SSH )

EC2 PRICING OPTIONS:

a. On-demand (Best for low budget)

b. Spot instance (CHEAPEST option. It lets you take adv. Of unused EC2 capacity)
c. Reserved instance (Most ECONOMICAL for longterm workloads)
d. Dedicated host (It has no shared license)
e. Saving plans

*EC2 Instances offer Load balancing & Autoscaling. These are its FEATURES.

(Elastic Load balancers automatically distributes traffic across multiple EC2 instances. E.g. classic,
application, gateway, and network load balancers)

(EC2 Autoscaling adds or replace EC2 instances automatically across AZs based on need/demand. It
improves high availability) (It can go from 1 instance --- 3 instances & from 3 instances – 1 instance).

(Horizontal scaling [scaling out] => where u add/replace servers)

(Vertical scaling [scaling up] => upgrades an existing instance)

AWS LAMBDA: *it is a serverless compute engine that lets you run code without managing servers. They
are serverless.

*They have a 15minute time-out.

*It scales automatically.

*They execute codes in response to events.

REAL WORLD C.S:

a. Realtime file processing. (Data file [.CSV])

b. Sending email notifications. (Email)
c. Backend Business Logic (Alexa)

CONTAINERS:

*FARGATE is a serverless compute engine for containers. They merge containers, i.e. Autoscales.

(20GB of ephemeral storage is available for all fargate tasks)

(Fargate supports SPOT & SAVINGS PLAN pricing options just like EC2 instances)

(ECS & EKS use Fargate to autoscale, loadbalance & optimize container availability)

*LIGHTSAIL allows you quickly launch all the resources you used for a small project. It deploys
preconfigured apps like WORDPRESS.

*AWS BATCH allows you to process large workloads in smaller chunks/batches.

*OUTPOSTS allows you run cloud services in internal data center. They support hybrid deployment
models.

B) STORAGE SERVICES:
i. Simple Storage Service (S3)
ii. Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
iii. EC2 Instance Store
iv. Elastic File Storage (EFS)
v. Storage Gateway.

S3: *They offer 11 9’s of durability (99.9999999%).

*S3 is a regional service. (i.e. objects are stored in multiple servers in multiple facilities across AWS)

STORAGE CLASS USED FOR? STORAGE DATA STORAGE PRICE

RETRIEVAL ACROSS AZs
S3 Standard Frequently Rapid Access Multiple
accessed data
S3 Intelligent Data with Rapid. No fees Multiple Cost- effective. (for
Tiering unknown/changing New apps)
access patterns
S3 Standard (IA) Infrequently Requires rapid Multiple Cheaper than S3
accessed data access Standard
S3 One Zone (IA) Infrequently Requires rapid Single AZ Costs <20% than S3
accessed data access standard IA. (data
can be lost)
S3 Glacier Long-term data. 1-5mins, Multiple It has cheaper
Archival storage 3-5hrs, storage options
5-12hrs, retrieval
options.
S3 Glacier Deep Accessed only once 12-48hrs retrieval Multiple Cheapest of all S3
Archive or twice a year options options
S3 Outposts Data that needs to Available on- Multiple devices & Demanding app
be kept locally premises, locally. servers performance
needs.