AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Explore the concept of regions in AWS and why choosing a region matters for EC2 resources. Data centers host physical hardware and EBS, with instances in North Virginia region (us-east-1).

Install a web server on a windows machine using server manager to add the IIS web server role, open port 80, and verify the IIS home page.

Launch an EC2 instance from a WordPress pre-installed AMI in the AWS marketplace, then subscribe and pay only for the instance while accessing the WordPress homepage.

Explore how regions provide separate geographic areas and how availability zones, each with one or more data centers, boost redundancy and uptime for resources like EC2 instances.

Explore serverless computing with AWS Lambda, comparing it to Amazon EC2 and learning how serverless shifts responsibility for high availability and OS patching away from you.

Launch a Linux-based EC2 instance with an 8‑GB EBS root volume, attach a 10‑GB data volume, format it, and mount to a data directory.

Learn to create a point-in-time EBS snapshot, build a new volume from it, attach to an EC2 instance, and clean up.

Explore Amazon FSx for Windows File Server as a fully managed, native Windows file system that supports SMB, offering a centralized file server for Windows devices.

Explore Amazon S3, a simple object storage service for cloud data, demonstrate storing images from an EC2 app and using S3 as a data lake.

Empty the contents of S3 buckets and permanently delete them after using AWS resources. Remove all objects from within the bucket and delete the bucket to complete the cleanup.

Explore how AWS Batch runs batch computing workloads on AWS, automatically manages compute resources, and processes uploaded videos in parallel by submitting jobs to a queue defined by job definitions.

Learn about the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS): create topics, publish messages, and subscribe receivers—email, mobile push, or other AWS services; manage standard or FIFO topics.

Explore how AWS Elastic Beanstalk deploys apps by creating a managed environment that handles capacity, load balancing, scaling, and health monitoring across platforms like .NET, Java, and Node.js.

Create a CloudFront distribution for an S3 bucket origin to deliver objects worldwide. Observe edge locations cache content and dramatically reduce response times for subsequent requests.

Explore Amazon Rekognition, a cloud service that analyzes images and videos to detect objects, scenes, faces, and unsafe content, and supports face comparison and content moderation.

Explore Amazon Transcribe, an automatic speech recognition service that converts audio to text using machine learning. Learn how to upload audio to S3, create a transcription job, and view results.

Learn how Amazon Comprehend extracts insights from documents, detects entities and key phrases, identifies language, and enables real-time text analysis with pre-trained models.

Learn AWS migration services to move on-premises servers and databases to the cloud with server migration service, database migration service, and schema conversion tool for migration with ongoing replication.

Attach IAM policies to users to grant permissions by using built in or custom policies, and compare read-only versus actionable access for services such as stopping an instance.

Define and apply a custom IAM policy to grant granular EC2 permissions, including describe, start, and stop actions, using either visual editor or JSON.

Manage IAM access keys to enable programmatic access, creating and activating keys (Access key ID and Secret Access Key), and configure the AWS CLI to list S3 bucket objects.

Explore how multi-factor authentication adds an extra protection layer to user logins beyond username and password. Learn about virtual MFA on phones, hardware devices, and FIDO security keys.

Use the IAM access analyzer to identify resources shared with external entities, such as S3 buckets and IAM roles, and assess unintended access for the cloud practitioner exam.

Explore Amazon CloudWatch to monitor resources in real time, view metrics like CPU utilization and network in/out, build dashboards, and trigger alarms with actions such as stopping an instance.

Explore Amazon CloudWatch Logs as the central repository for log storage, streaming from sources like EC2, and analyze with queries; observe Lambda function log groups and streams.

Amazon EventBridge delivers real-time events to targets like Lambda with rules and replay. Stopping an EC2 instance triggers an SQS queue message and potential actions.

Explore the six advantages of cloud computing: trading fixed for variable costs, economies of scale, scalable capacity, faster feature delivery, reduced data center maintenance, and global reach via regions.

Explore elasticity and scalability as the ability to scale resources on demand, with services like Amazon S3 and elastic load balancer that auto scales based on demand.

Explore how high availability keeps apps running by using multi-az deployments, standby replicas, and cross-zone durability for S3 and RDS.

Explore AWS billing and pricing, compare spot, reserved, and on-demand pricing, and review AWS support plans and Cost Explorer for cost management.

Explore how AWS consolidated billing via AWS Organizations lets a parent management account consolidate bills from multiple member accounts, enabling one payment and shared volume discounts across the organization.

Understand AWS support plans for large organizations, from basic to enterprise on-ramp, with pricing, trusted advisor checks, and dedicated technical account managers guiding production and critical system down cases.