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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Guide

By : Rajesh Daswani
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Book Image

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Guide

3 (1)
By: Rajesh Daswani

Overview of this book

Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud computing service provider in the world. Its foundational certification, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01), is the first step to fast-tracking your career in cloud computing. This certification will add value even to those in non-IT roles, including professionals from sales, legal, and finance who may be working with cloud computing or AWS projects. If you are a seasoned IT professional, this certification will make it easier for you to prepare for more technical certifications to progress up the AWS ladder and improve your career prospects. The book is divided into four parts. The first part focuses on the fundamentals of cloud computing and the AWS global infrastructure. The second part examines key AWS technology services, including compute, network, storage, and database services. The third part covers AWS security, the shared responsibility model, and several security tools. In the final part, you'll study the fundamentals of cloud economics and AWS pricing models and billing practices. Complete with exercises that highlight best practices for designing solutions, detailed use cases for each of the AWS services, quizzes, and two complete practice tests, this CLF-C01 exam study guide will help you gain the knowledge and hands-on experience necessary to ace the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Cloud Concepts
5
Section 2: AWS Technologies
16
Section 3: AWS Security
18
Section 4: Billing and Pricing
20
Chapter 16: Mock Tests

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the various database services offered by Amazon, comprising both relational and non-relational databases services. You learned how AWS enables you to quickly deploy new RDS databases and offers full management of your database as a service, rather than you having to provision EC2 instances that you will install database software on.

Amazon RDS comes with six engines – MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL, Oracle, MariaDB, and Amazon Aurora. Amazon RDS is a regional service and must be deployed in your VPC. You have options to configure for high availability using services such as Multi-AZ and backup and restore strategies. You can also scale out read copies of your RDS database to offload read queries away from the primary master copy of your database.

Amazon Aurora comes with a lot more features and addresses some of the limitations of traditional RDS engines out of the box, including features such as self-healing and high availability...