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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

Coordinating multiple AWS services into serverless workloads with Amazon Step Functions and Amazon SWF

In this section, we'll look at two different AWS services that enable you to design task-based workflows between your application components. The first service we will look at is AWS Step Functions, while the second will be AWS SWF.

AWS Step Functions

Applications tend to have several components that make up individual workflows and processes. Each workflow represents an element of the application that then leads on to the next to provide a complete end-to-end solution. Amazon Step Functions enables you to define these workflows as a series of state machines that contain "states" that make up the workflow. These states make decisions based on input, perform some action, and produce an output to other states.

States can be any of the following types:

  • Success or fail state: Where the execution stops with a success or failure
  • Wait state: Where the...