Why Learn AWS?
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Fastest growing cloud computing platform on the
planet
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Largest public could computing platform on the
planet
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More & more organization are outsourcing
their IT to AWS
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The AWS certification are the most popular IT
certification right now
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The safest place to be in IT right now
How the
Exams Fit Together
What you will learn
The Exam Blue Print
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80 Minutes in Length
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60 Questions (this can change)
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Multiple Choice
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Pass Mark based on a bell curve (it move around)
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Aim for 70%
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Qualification is valid for 2 years
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Scenario based questions
What you will need
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AWS Free Tier Account
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A Computer with an SSH terminal
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A domain name (optional)
History
of AWS
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2003 - Chris Pinkman & Benjamin Black
Present a paper on what Amazon's own internal infrastructure should look like
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Suggested selling it as a service and prepared a
business case.
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SQS officially launched in 2004.
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AWS officially launched in 2006
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2007 over 180,000 developers on the platform
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2010 all of amazon.com moved over
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2012 First Re-Invent Conference
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2013 Certification launched
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2014 Committed to achieve 100% renewable energy
usage for its global footpring
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2015 AWS breaks out its revenue $6 Billion USD
per annum and growing close to 90% year on year.
Concepts
& Components Part1
What is
a Region? What is an AZ?
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AWS is divided into geographic regions and
availability zones
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Region
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A Region is a geographical area. Each Region
consists of 2 (or more) Availability Zones.
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Network connection between zones in the same
region have low latency
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Each region is guaranteed to be completely
isolated from any other region
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Several regions are available
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US East—Virginia (us-east-1)
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US West—California (us-west-1)
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US West—Oregon (us-west-2)
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Asia Pacific—Tokyo (ap-northeast-1)
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Asia Pacific—Singapore (ap-southeast-1)
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Asia Pacific—Sydney (ap-southeast-2)
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Asia Pacific—Seoul (ap-northeast-2)
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Asia Pacific—Mumbai Region
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EU West—Ireland (eu-west-1)
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EU-Central—Germany (eu-central-1)
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South America—Sao Paulo (sa-east-1)
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China—Beijing (cn-north-1)
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US Government (us-gov-west-1)
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Availability Zone (AZ)
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An Availability Zone (AZ) is Simply a Data
Center; a group of servers
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Individual datacenter within an AWS region. A
region is made up of multiple datacenter and the fundamental property of AWS is
building across differently availability zones and regions.
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Two zones are guaranteed not to share any common
points of failure
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Edge
Locations:
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Location build to deliver cached data across the
world. CloundFront CDN utilizes this service for faster delivery to countries
without AWS regions.
Implications
of Regions and Zones
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AWS provides the capability to deploy resources
in specific regions and availability zones
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Pricing may depend on region
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Can utilize a region geographically close to
users
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To potentially improve performance
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Can comply with legal and regulatory
requirements
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Restrictions on where data is hosted
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For example, within U.S. borders
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Using multiple regions/availability zones can
reduce downtime
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Mitigate effects of a failure of a single
location
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Can actually improve the availability promised
by Amazon
Service
Level Agreements
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Amazon publishes SLAs
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The terms of the service
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Defines Amazon’s commitment in providing the
service
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And ramifications of not meeting the service
level
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Different AWS services have different SLAs
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Understanding the SLAs is critical when hosting
a solution on AWS
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Essentially a contract between you and Amazon
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Differences may exist between the design
specification and the SLA
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Be sure you know what is actually being promised
What is
An Edge Location?
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Edge Location are CDN (Content Delivery Network)
End Points for Cloud Front.
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There are many more Edge Location than Regions.
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There are over 50 Edge Locations.
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Edge Location helps lower latency and improves
performance for end users.
A Brief
Look at Today's Region
