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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

Chapter 3: Exploring AWS Accounts, Multi-Account Strategy, and AWS Organizations

To access services on the AWS platform, you need to have an AWS account. AWS offers hundreds of different services, which you, as a customer, can consume to build cloud IT solutions for your business and clients.

AWS offers public cloud services that are accessible to anyone on the internet. An AWS account provides a means of accessing these public AWS services in an isolated boundary separate from other customers. This means that users outside your account cannot access your resources unless, of course, you grant them access. An AWS account thus offers security, access isolation, and billing boundaries for the services that you consume and the resources you deploy. In addition, the cost of consuming any AWS service will be allocated to your AWS account.

In this chapter, we explore the benefits of having multiple AWS accounts and we also discuss how to manage those accounts using a service called...