AWS for Non-Engineers

174 Pages·2022·10.417 MB·English

by  Hiroko Nishimura

Hiroko Nishimura
M A N N I N G
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam (CLF-C01)
Chapter 2: Cloud concepts
Chapter 5: Security and compliance
7.2: The four domains
● Domain 1: Cloud Concepts
● Domain 2: Security and Compliance ● Chapter 3: Deploying and
● Domain 3: Technology operating in AWS global
● Domain 4: Billing and Pricing infrastructure
● Chapter 4: Core AWS services
Chapter 6: Billing and pricing
The four domains of the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam (CLF-C01)
AWS for Non-Engineers

AWS for Non-Engineers
HIROKO NISHIMURA
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brief contents
1 ■ Introduction to cloud computing and Amazon
Web Services 1
2 ■ Introduction to cloud concepts 16
3 ■ Deploying and operating in AWS global
infrastructure 50
4 ■ Core AWS services 65
5 ■ Security and compliance 87
6 ■ Billing and pricing 101
7 ■ AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam (CLF-C01) 122

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contents
preface x
acknowledgments xii
about this book xiv
about the author xvii
about the cover illustration xviii
1 Introduction to cloud computing and Amazon Web Services 1
1.1 What is cloud computing? 2
1.2 Why cloud computing? 4
1.3 When should I use or not use cloud computing? 5
When should I use cloud computing? 5 ■ When should I not use
cloud computing? 7
1.4 Conceptualizing cloud computing and AWS 9
Cloud computing, AWS, and you 9 ■ Breaking down AWS 10
1.5 AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam (CLF-C01) 12
The four domains 13 ■ Studying for the AWS Certified Cloud
Practitioner exam 14
2 Introduction to cloud concepts 16
2.1 Cloud concepts introduced 17
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viii CONTENTS
2.2 Advantages of cloud computing 17
Trade capital expenses for variable expenses 18 ■ Benefit from massive
economies of scale 20 ■ Stop guessing capacity 22 ■ Increase speed and
agility 24 ■ Stop spending money running and maintaining data
centers 25 ■ Go global in minutes 26 ■ Section quiz 28
2.3 Types of cloud computing models 28
Software as a Service 30 ■ Platform as a Service 30
Infrastructure as a Service 31 ■ Section quiz 31
2.4 Types of cloud computing deployments 32
Cloud/cloud-native deployment 32 ■ Hybrid deployment 32
On-premises deployment 33 ■ Section quiz 33
2.5 Pillars of the Well-Architected Framework 34
Operational excellence 35 ■ Security 36 ■ Reliability 40
Performance efficiency 42 ■ Cost optimization 44
Sustainability 46 ■ Section quiz 48
3 Deploying and operating in AWS global infrastructure 50
3.1 Hosting IT infrastructure on AWS 50
3.2 Deploying and operating in AWS 51
Interacting with the AWS Cloud 51 ■ Deploying in the AWS
Cloud 55 ■ Connectivity options in the AWS Cloud 55
Section quiz 58
3.3 AWS global infrastructure 58
Regions 59 ■ Availability Zones 60 ■ Edge Locations 61
Section quiz 63
4 Core AWS services 65
4.1 Compute services 65
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud 66 ■ AWS Elastic Beanstalk 67
Elastic Load Balancing 68 ■ AWS Lambda 69 ■ Amazon
Elastic Container Service 71 ■ Section quiz 71
4.2 Storage services 71
Amazon Simple Storage Service 73 ■ Amazon Elastic Block
Store 74 ■ AWS Snowball 74 ■ AWS Storage Gateway 75
Amazon Elastic File System 77 ■ Section quiz 77
4.3 Database services 77
Amazon Relational Database Service 77 ■ Amazon
DynamoDB 79 ■ Amazon Redshift 80 ■ Section quiz 80
4.4 Networking and content delivery services 80
Amazon Route 53 81 ■ Section quiz 82