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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Guide

By : Rajesh Daswani
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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 S3

Amazon S3 is one of Amazon's flagship products, and offers a robust, scalable, durable, and cost-effective object storage solution in the cloud. Customers can use Amazon S3 to store any amount of data for a wide range of use cases, including digital media content for websites, data lakes, mobile applications, IoT device data, and big data analytics.

Amazon S3 can offer up to 99.999999999% durability and fulfills the storage requirements for a majority of clients and their individual business needs.

What does eleven 9s of durability mean? According to AWS, if you store 10,000,000 objects on Amazon S3, then on average you can expect to incur a loss of a single object once every 10,000 years. You can review all frequently asked questions (FAQs) for Amazon S3 here: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/.

Buckets and objects

Before you can upload any data to Amazon S3, you need to create a container called a bucket. Buckets need to have a unique global...