Cloud Practitioner Essentials

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Validate your cloud fluency and foundational knowledge with the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification. AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner is intended for anyone who has basic knowledge of the AWS platform. Add this career-building credential after attending AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials.

Key Course Takeaways
• Differentiate between on-premises, and hybrid-cloud
• Explain the value and benefits of the AWS Cloud
• Understand the core security services in AWS
• Understand AWS Cloud costs, economics, and billing practices
• Understand the core AWS services, including compute, network, databases, and storage

This Course is Right for You if...
• You use insights from AWS Cloud to inform business decisions.
• You interact directly with pricing tools to estimate AWS costs.
• Cloud or inform your stakeholders of the benefits of adopting AWS Cloud.
• You are interested in learning how to leverage the cloud to save your business money.

AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials $675 | 1 Day

Are you new to the AWS Cloud and looking to jump-start your cloud journey?
Dedicate a day toward building your AWS Cloud skills with our one-day AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials course. This course is for individuals who seek an overall understanding of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, independent of specific technical roles. You will learn about AWS Cloud concepts, AWS services, security, architecture, pricing, and support to build your AWS Cloud knowledge.

AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials $675 | 1 Day

Are you new to the AWS Cloud and looking to jump-start
your cloud journey?
Dedicate a day toward building your AWS Cloud skills with our one-day AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials course. This course is for individuals who seek an overall understanding of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, independent of specific technical roles. You will learn about AWS Cloud concepts, AWS services, security, architecture, pricing, and support to build your AWS Cloud knowledge.

AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials $675 | 1 Day

Are you new to the AWS Cloud and looking to jump-start
your cloud journey?
Dedicate a day toward building your AWS Cloud skills with our one-day AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials course. This course is for individuals who seek an overall understanding of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, independent of specific technical roles. You will learn about AWS Cloud concepts, AWS services, security, architecture, pricing, and support to build your AWS Cloud knowledge.

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Agenda

1 - Introduction to Amazon Web Services

Summarize the benefits of AWS
Describe differences between on-demand delivery and cloud deployments
Summarize the pay-as-you-go pricing model

2 - Compute in the Cloud

Describe the benefits of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) at a basic level
Identify the different Amazon EC2 instance types
Differentiate between the various billing options for Amazon EC2
Describe the benefits of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Summarize the benefits of Elastic Load Balancing
Give an example of the uses for Elastic Load Balancing
Summarize the differences between Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) and Amazon Simple Queue Services (Amazon SQS)
Summarize additional AWS compute options

3 - Global Infrastructure and Reliability

Summarize the benefits of the AWS Global Infrastructure
Describe the basic concept of Availability Zones
Describe the benefits of Amazon CloudFront and Edge locations
Compare different methods for provisioning AWS services

4 - Networking

Describe the basic concepts of networking
Describe the difference between public and private networking resources
Explain a virtual private gateway using a real life scenario
Explain a virtual private network (VPN) using a real life scenario
Describe the benefit of AWS Direct Connect
Describe the benefit of hybrid deployments
Describe the layers of security used in an IT strategy
Describe which services are used to interact with the AWS global network

5 - Storage and Databases

Summarize the basic concept of storage and databases
Describe benefits of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
Describe benefits of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
Describe the benefits of Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
Summarize various storage solutions
Describe the benefits of Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
Describe the benefits of Amazon DynamoDB
Summarize various database services

6 - Security

Explain the benefits of the shared responsibility model
Describe multi-factor authentication (MFA)
Differentiate between the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) security levels
Describe security policies at a basic level
Explain the benefits of AWS Organizations
Summarize the benefits of compliance with AWS
Explain primary AWS security services at a basic level

7 - Monitoring and Analytics

Summarize approaches to monitoring your AWS environment
Describe the benefits of Amazon CloudWatch
Describe the benefits of AWS CloudTrail
Describe the benefits of AWS Trusted Advisor

8 - Pricing and Support

Understand AWS pricing and support models
Describe the AWS Free Tier
Describe key benefits of AWS Organizations and consolidated billing
Explain the benefits of AWS Budgets
Explain the benefits of AWS Cost Explorer
Explain the primary benefits of the AWS Pricing Calculator
Distinguish between the various AWS Support Plans
Describe the benefits of AWS Marketplace

9 - Migration and Innovation

Understand migration and innovation in the AWS Cloud
Summarize the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)
Summarize six key factors of a cloud migration strategy
Describe the benefits of various AWS data migration solutions, such as AWS Snowcone, AWS Snowball, and AWS Snowmobile
Summarize the broad scope of innovative solutions that AWS offers
Summarize the five pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework