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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 VPSes with Amazon Lightsail

In addition to Amazon EC2, AWS also offers a more lightweight solution to deploy virtual servers preconfigured with the most common application stacks for a wide range of use cases. Rather than picking individual components of your EC2 instances, such as the instance type and storage, and then installing all the necessary application layers, Amazon Lightsail offers blueprints that will automatically configure your servers with various common use case applications and utilities required to get up and running.

A common application stack includes your chosen operating system, along with apps such as WordPress, Drupal, Plesk, LAMP, and more. Deploying Amazon Lightsail is also relatively straightforward, with guided steps to get your deployment up and running.

The best part about Lightsail is you have a fixed monthly fee based on the instance type and the associated operating system and applications that have been deployed. However, for...