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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

Introduction to Amazon Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is an open source text search and analytics engine that's capable of storing, analyzing, and performing search functions against big volumes of data in near real time. You can use Elasticsearch to analyze all types of data such as textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured data.

Amazon's offering of Elasticsearch as a service comes as a fully managed service with no need to set up and manage any infrastructure, allowing you to focus on your applications and their functionalities. Following the same pay-as-you-consume model, there are also no upfront costs, although you can reserve instances for a 1- or 3-year term for a significant discount over the on-demand pricing model.

Amazon Elasticsearch is designed to be highly scalable and can index all types of content to help you deliver applications for use cases such as the following:

  • Website search
  • Application search
  • Logging and log analytics...