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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

Why have a multi-account AWS environment?

While you can host all your business resources in a single AWS account, this can very quickly become too complex to manage. Imagine hosting multiple resources for your various non-production applications under development, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and production workloads, all within the same AWS account. This can rapidly become a huge management overhead. The complexity is further compounded because you would have to ensure that many of these applications are isolated from each other for compliance or security reasons. This would require you to define highly complex policies and permissions to ensure proper segregation of different workload types and effective management of resources.

Above all, having a single AWS account prevents you from limiting the blast radius of any major disasters. Separating your workloads using an appropriate strategy will help limit the blast radius of catastrophic disasters. So, for example, you can have...