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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Guide

By : Rajesh Daswani
3 (1)
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

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

Kubernetes is another open source container orchestration solution. It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubernetes takes care of scaling and managing your containers, taking care of failover options to ensure your application keeps running.

Amazon EKS is AWS's offering to help you deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS.

In this section, we looked at the basics of containerization and how it can be used to effectively deploy and manage your application stack. We discussed the ECS and its two different launch types – the Fargate and EC2 launch types. We also looked at Amazon's take on Kubernetes as a container orchestration tool that uses Kubernetes.

In the next section, we will look at some additional compute solutions available from AWS.