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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

Learning about Amazon EBS and instance backed store

Like virtual servers in your on-premises environment, EC2 instances require accessible block storage volume to host the instance operating system, data, and applications that need to run on the server. AWS offers two types of block storage options: Elastic Block Store and instance store volumes.

Amazon Elastic Block Store

Amazon Elastic Block Store offers a high-performance block storage service for your EC2 instances. These act as virtual hard drives for your virtual servers deployed in the cloud. Amazon EBS is a network storage service similar in nature to the way you would attach a storage volume from a Storage Area Network (SAN) to your VMs deployed on VMware, in an on-premises environment.

You would provision the required EBS volume, such as 8 GB, 30 GB, 1,000 GB, or whatever size you require, and attach it to your EC2 instance. EC2 instances require a root volume (or a system drive on Windows machines, such as the ...