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12 notesIST 2543Lesson 1Understanding Cloud ComputingCloud value, virtualization, service models, elasticity, economics, migration choices, and the first AWS account safety controls.IST 2543Lesson 2Understanding Your AWS AccountFree Tier guardrails, pricing dimensions, purchase options, quotas, billing, budgets, cost exploration, tags, and consolidated billing.IST 2543Lesson 3Getting Support on AWSAWS support plans, case severity, authoritative documentation, human expertise, abuse reporting, and Trusted Advisor checks.IST 2543Lesson 4Understanding the AWS EnvironmentAWS Regions, Availability Zones, subnets, high availability, edge services, extension zones, and shared responsibility.IST 2543Lesson 5Securing Your AWS ResourcesRoot user protection, IAM authentication, users, groups, roles, federation, KMS encryption, AWS Artifact, and AWS security services.IST 2543Lesson 6Working with Your AWS ResourcesThe AWS Management Console, tags and resource groups, the AWS CLI and SDKs, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Cost Explorer, AWS Config, Control Tower, and License Manager.IST 2543Lesson 7The Core Compute ServicesEC2 AMIs, instance types, EBS and instance store volumes, EC2 pricing models, Lightsail, Elastic Beanstalk, containers with ECS and EKS, and serverless AWS Lambda.IST 2543Lesson 8The Core Storage ServicesAmazon S3 buckets, objects, storage classes, permissions, encryption, versioning, and life cycles; S3 Glacier; Storage Gateway; the Snow Family; Transfer Family, FSx, and Elastic Disaster Recovery.IST 2543Lesson 9The Core Database ServicesRelational and nonrelational databases, SQL basics, ElastiCache and MemoryDB, Amazon RDS and Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, and AWS analytics services.IST 2543Lesson 10The Core Networking ServicesAmazon VPC with CIDR blocks, subnets, internet gateways, security groups, NACLs, peering, VPN, and Direct Connect; Global Accelerator and AWS firewalls; Route 53 DNS; and CloudFront.IST 2543Lesson 11Automating Your AWS WorkloadsImperative vs. declarative automation, infrastructure as code with CloudFormation, the AWS developer tools and CI/CD, EC2 Auto Scaling, and configuration management with Systems Manager and OpsWorks.IST 2543Lesson 12Common Use-Case ScenariosThe six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, a highly available web application with Auto Scaling and load balancing, static website hosting on S3, and AWS AI/ML services.
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