# AWS Cloud Practitioner Study Notes

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![Web App 3-tier](./images/Cloud-Practitioner.png)

Each Section contains a number of units. **Below Table Link** containing information about each sections in detail.

## Table of contents

- [Study Guide](./study-guide.md)
- [Cloud Computing](sections/cloud_computing.md)
  - What is Cloud Computing?, AWS Global Infrastructure, Shared Responsibility Model
- [IAM: Identity Access & Management](sections/iam.md)
  - What Is IAM?, Multi Factor Authentication - MFA, MFA devices options in AWS, How can users access AWS ?, What’s the AWS CLI?, What’s the AWS SDK?
- [EC2: Virtual Machines](sections/ec2.md) 
  - What is Amazon EC2?, Introduction to Security Groups, Classic Ports to know, EC2 Instance Launch Types, Which purchasing option is right for me?, Shared Responsibility Model for EC2
- [EC2 Instance Storage](sections/ec2_storage.md)
  - EBS Volumes, EFS: Elastic File System, EFS Infrequent Access (EFS-IA), Amazon FSx – Overview, EC2 Instance Store, Shared Responsibility Model for EC2 Storage
- [Elastic Load Balancing & Auto Scaling Groups](sections/elb_asg.md)
  - Scalability & High Availability, Vertical Scalability, Horizontal Scalability, High Availability, High Availability & Scalability For EC2, Scalability vs Elasticity (vs Agility), What is load balancing?, What’s an Auto Scaling Group?
- [Amazon S3](sections/s3.md)
  - S3 Use cases, Amazon S3 Overview - Buckets, Amazon S3 Overview - Objects, S3 Websites, S3 Storage Classes, S3 Object Lock & Glacier Vault Lock, Shared Responsibility Model for S3, AWS Snow Family, What is Edge Computing?, Snow Family - Edge Computing, AWS OpsHub, Hybrid Cloud for Storage, AWS Storage Gateway
- [Databases & Analytics](sections/databases.md)
  - Databases Intro, Relational Databases, NoSQL Databases, Databases & Shared Responsibility on AWS, AWS RDS Overview, Amazon Aurora, Amazon ElastiCache Overview, DynamoDB, Redshift Overview, Amazon EMR, Amazon Athena, Amazon QuickSight, DocumentDB, Amazon Neptune, Amazon QLDB
- [Other Compute Section](sections/other_compute.md)
  - What is Docker?, ECS, Fargate, ECR, What’s serverless?, Why AWS Lambda ?, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Batch, Batch vs Lambda, Amazon Lightsail, Lambda Summary
- [Deploying and Managing Infrastructure at Scale](sections/deploying.md)
  - What is CloudFormation?, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), Developer problems on AWS, Typical architecture: Web App 3-tier, AWS Elastic Beanstalk Overview, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeArtifact, AWS CodeStar, AWS Cloud9, AWS Systems Manager (SSM), AWS OpsWorks
- [Global Infrastructure](sections/global_infrastructure.md)
  - Why make a global application?, Amazon Route 53 Overview, Route 53 Routing Policies, AWS CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, AWS Outposts, AWS WaveLength, AWS Local Zones
- [Cloud Integration](sections/cloud_integration.md)
  - Amazon SQS - Simple Queue Service, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon SNS, Amazon MQ
- [Cloud Monitoring](sections/cloud_monitoring.md)
  - Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, AWS X-Ray, Amazon CodeGuru, AWS Status - Service Health Dashboard, AWS Personal Health Dashboard
- [VPC](sections/vpc.md)
  - VPC & Subnets Primer, Internet Gateway & NAT Gateways, Network ACL & Security Groups, VPC Flow Logs, VPC Peering, VPC Endpoints, Site to Site VPN & Direct Connect, Transit Gateway
- [Security & Compliance](sections/security_compliance.md)
  - AWS Shared Responsibility Model, DDOS Protection on AWS, AWS Shield, AWS WAF - Web Application Firewall, AWS KMS (Key Management Service), CloudHSM, AWS Certificate Manager (ACM), AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Artifact (not really a service), Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, AWS Config, Amazon Macie, AWS Security Hub, Amazon Detective, AWS Abuse, Root user privileges
- [Machine Learning](sections/machine_learning.md)
  - Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Polly, Amazon Translate, Amazon Lex & Connect, Amazon Comprehend, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Forecast, Amazon Kendra, Amazon Personalize, Amazon Textract
- [Account Management, Billing & Support](sections/account_management_billing_support.md)
  - AWS Organizations, Multi Account Strategies, Service Control Policies (SCP), AWS Organization - Consolidated Billing, AWS Control Tower, Pricing Models in AWS, Compute Pricing, Storage Pricing, Database Pricing - RDS, Content Delivery - CloudFront, Networking Costs in AWS per GB - Simplified
- [Advanced Identity](sections/advanced_identity.md)
  - AWS STS (SecurityToken Service), Amazon Cognito (simplified), What is Microsoft Active Directory (AD)?, AWS Single Sign-On (SSO)
- [Other AWS Services](sections/other_aws_services.md)
  - Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon AppStream 2.0, Amazon Sumerian, AWS IoT Core, Amazon Elastic Transcoder, AWS Device Farm, AWS Backup, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS), AWS DataSync, AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS)
- [AWS Architecting & Ecosystem](sections/architecting_and_ecosystem.md)
  - Well Architected Framework General Guiding Principles, AWS Cloud Best Practices - Design Principles, Well Architected Framework 6 Pillars, AWS Well-Architected Tool, AWS Right Sizing, AWS Ecosystem - Free resources, AWS Marketplace

## Practice Exams
  
- [Practice Exam List](practice-exam/exams.md)

## Other AWS And Azure Certification Notes

- [AWS Developer Associate (DVA-C02)](https://certification.kananinirav.com/aws-developer-associate/)
- [AWS Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03)](https://certification.kananinirav.com/aws-solutions-architect-associate/)
- [Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)](https://certification.kananinirav.com/az-900-microsoft-azure-fundamentals/)

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