5 THINGS I LEARNED FROM THE AWS CLOUD PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION
5 things I learned from the AWS cloud practitioner certification
AWS stands for Amazon Web Services. AWS is a cloud provider. The AWS cloud practitioner certification is an introductory certification that AWS offers. Some of the services and concepts that stood out to me were edge locations, the snow family, the Rekognition service, the shared responsibility model, and the well-architected framework.
1. Edge locations
Edge locations cache content for fast delivery to your users, reduce latency and increases the speed at which people receive content incredibly. I can’t imagine trying to watch Netflix with buffering happening frequently.
2. Snow Family
The snow family helps migrate large amounts of data into and out of AWS. The AWS snow family service models include AWS snowcone, AWS snowball, and AWS snowmobile. Moving data will always be needed that is what makes this service so valuable.
3. Rekognition
Rekognition allows you to automate your image and video analysis. The service works like this. You can upload an image or video to the Rekognition API and the service can detect faces, analyze faces, and much more.
4. Shared Responsibility model
Security and compliance are shared responsibilities between AWS and the customer. AWS is responsible for the security of the cloud. For example, patching infrastructure would be the responsibility of AWS. The customer is accountable for security in the cloud. For instance, patching guest OS and applications would be the responsibility of the customer.
5. Well-Architected Framework
AWS Well-Architected helps cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for various applications and workloads.
Operational Excellence
Focuses on creating applications that effectively support production workloads.
Security
Helps protect your systems and data.
Reliability
Focuses on designing systems that work consistently and recover quickly.
Performance Efficiency
Focuses on the effective use of computing resources to meet system and business requirements while removing bottlenecks.
Cost optimization
Focuses on delivering optimum and resilient solutions at the least cost to the user.
Sustainability Pillar
The sustainability pillar focuses on minimizing the environmental impacts of running cloud workloads.
Resources used passed the AWS cloud practitioner certification:
A Cloud Guru
- Their practice tests were more complicated than the actual test.
- https://learn.acloud.guru/course/AWS--certified-cloud-practitioner/overview
Udemy
- Their practice tests were more challenging than the actual test.
- https://www.udemy.com/course/practice-exams-AWS-certified-cloud-practitioner/
AWS skill builder
- Their practice test may have been too easy but has the most up-to-date information.
- https://explore.skillbuilder.AWS/learn/course/134/AWS-cloud-practitioner-essentials
Exampro
- Perfect practice test.
- https://www.exampro.co/clf-c01
Freecodecamp
- Great free option.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOTamWNgDKc&t=1087s
After studying and passing this certification I now have a clearer understanding of why AWS is one of the leading cloud providers. Thank you for taking the time to read this blog post.
