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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide: CLF-C01 Exam

By : Ben Piper, David Clinton
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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide: CLF-C01 Exam

By: Ben Piper, David Clinton

Overview of this book

AWS certifications validate the technical skills and knowledge required for building secure and reliable applications on the AWS cloud. The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification is for individuals who have the knowledge and skills necessary to demonstrate an understanding of the AWS Cloud, independent of specific technical roles addressed by other AWS certifications. An AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner is a recommended path to achieving specialty certification or an optional start toward Associate certification. This guide provides a solid introduction and the resources you need to prove your knowledge in the exam. It covers all topics, beginning with what the AWS cloud and its basic global infrastructure and architectural principles. Other chapters dive into the technical, exploring core characteristics of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud Platform, as well as basic security and compliance aspects and the shared security model. The text identifies sources of documentation or technical assistance, such as white papers or support tickets. The authors discuss the AWS Cloud value proposition and define billing, account management, and pricing models. This includes describing the key services AWS can provide and their common use cases such as compute, analytics, and so on. By the end of this book, you'll be thoroughly prepared for the foundational CLF-C01 exam.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Cover
2
Acknowledgments
3
About the Authors
4
Table of Exercises
5
Introduction
6
Assessment Test
7
Answers to Assessment Test
20
Index
21
Advert
22
End User License Agreement

Product Pricing

As you plan, launch, and then manage your AWS deployments, keeping costs within your organization’s budget is going to demand a lot of your attention. You’ll need to understand how AWS bills for each of the services you’re considering, and you’ll need to know how to quickly get your hands on accurate pricing information.

Finding AWS Pricing Documentation

We’ll get to the understanding part soon enough, but we can definitely help you with the accurate pricing information right now. Each AWS service has its own web page dedicated to pricing. For example, bearing in mind that the URL for an introductory overview of the S3 service is https://aws.amazon.com/s3, to get to the pricing page, you simply add a slash and the word pricing, like this: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing.

Once on the page, you’ll find easy-to-read tables displaying pricing levels per hour, month, or some other measured unit that’s appropriate to the service...