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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

The basics of Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch enables you to monitor your AWS resources and applications, running on AWS as well as on-premises. With Amazon CloudWatch, you can see how your resources are performing in real time. Using CloudWatch, you can collect resource and application metrics, logs, and events, and have these recorded into CloudWatch for analysis and identifying trends. A metric represents a time-ordered set of data points that are published to CloudWatch.

Amazon CloudWatch can be used to configure alarms whereby if those metrics breach certain thresholds for a specified period, you can generate an alarm on which action can be taken to remediate.

With Amazon CloudWatch, you can track and collect metrics for your Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) instances, and more. Every AWS service publishes metrics to Amazon CloudWatch. You get basic metrics, which are offered free of charge, and detailed metrics,...