- Why AWS ?
- Fastest growing cloud computing platform on the planet
- Largest public cloud computing platform on the planet
- More and more organisations are outsourcing their IT to AWS
- The AWS certifications are the most popular IT certifications right now.
- Top Paid IT Certification for 2016 according to Forbes
- ASW Partner Program
Technology Partner- Alert Logic
- CloudBerry Lab
- Sumo Logic
- Datadog
- New Relic etc
- Logicworks
- Rackspace
- Accenture
- Datapipe
AWS Partner Program:
Partner------------------------Associate Certs------------------Professional CertsStandard----------------------------2 ---------------------------------------------0
Advanced---------------------------4 ---------------------------------------------2
Permier------------------------------20 ---------------------------------------------8
Certification Levels:
Speciality Security------Advanced Networking---Big DataProfessional Tier Certified Solution Architect Professional ----- Devops Professional
Associate Tier Certified Solutions Architect Associate ---- Certified Developer Associate ---- Certified Sysops Administrator Associate
Certification Level Easy to Hard
Deevloper AssociateSolution Architect Associate
Sysops Administrator Associate
Security Specialty
Big Data Specialty
Devops Pro
Advance Network Specialty
Solutions Architect Professional
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Exam Blue Print
Objective ------------------------------------------------------------Weight
Designing highly available, cost efficient, fault tolerant, scaleable systems -- 60
Implementing/ Deploying---------------------------------------10%
Data Security---------------------------------------------------------20%
Troubleshooting-----------------------------------------------------10%
60 Questions (can change)
Multiple Choice
Pass mark is based on a bell curve (it moves around).
Aim for 70%
Qualification is valid for 2 years
Scenario based questions
AWS History
Invention requires two things.1. The ability to try a log to experiments, and
2. not having to live with the collateral damage of failed experiments.
AWS Main Services
- Compute
- Storage
- Database
- Migration
- Networking & Content Delivery
- Developer Tools
- Management Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
- Analytics
- Security, Identity & Compliance
- Mobile Services
- AWS Cost Management
- Application Services
- Messaging
- Business Productivity
- Desktop & App Streaming
- Software
- Internet of Things
- Contact Center
- Game Development
To pass the "Certified Solutions Architect" Associate Exam, below services required.
- Messaging
- Desktop & App Streaming
- Security & Indentity
- Management Tools
- Storage
- Database
- Networking & Content Delivery
- Compute
- AWS Global Infrastructure
AWS Global Infrastructure
14 Regions & 38 Availability Zones - December 2016, 4 More Regions & 11 More Availability Zones-2017
What is Region ?
A Region is a geographical area. Each region consists of 2 (or more) Availability Zones. An Availability Zone (AZ) is simply a Data Center.AZ-A-------------AZ-B-------------AZ-C--------------AZ-A
What is An Edge Logation?
Edge Location are CDN End Points for Cloud Front. There are many Edge Locations than Regions. Currently there are over 66 Edge Locations.- VPC ?Virtual data center where you going to deploy your data.
- Route53?
Its a Amazon DNS service.
- Route66?
Old amazon dns service.
- Cloud Front?
is part of content delivery network
-Direct Connect?
connecting your physical datacenters/ offices to AWS servers directly through telephone lines. It can come in exams.
-EC2?
Elastic compute cloud. It's a virtual machine that runs on aws.
-EC2 Container Services?
-Elastic Beanstalk?
Deploy your code into AWS web services.
-Lambda?
it is very important topic in AWS.
-Lightsail?
its a brand new service invented in 2016.
STORAGE? (Consists of 4 different Components)
- S3 - Place to put objects into the cloud. It is Virtual disks on the cloud for objects storage. like pictures, movies etc. Its a object based storage.
- Glacier - place where you archive you files for future use. Its can't access frequently, it takes 3-4 hours to access.
- EFS - stands for elastic files service. Its a place where you can store your databases and can share on different virtual machines. can store games, databases.
- Storage Gateway - connecting your
DATABASES? ()
- RDS - Relational database service. it consists of number of database technology. Mysql, SqlServer etc. Its a relational database.
- DynamoDB - Its a non relational database. Its essential for developers exam.
- Redshift -
- Elasticache - Caching your data into the cloud.
MIGRATION SERVICES
- Snowball-
- DMS - Database Migration Service. Migrate database from location machine to AWS cloud. No downtime, Migrated to different databases.
- Server Migration Services (SMS) - this target VMware virtual machines. it can replicate vmware virtual machine on to the cloud.
ANALYTICS
- Athena -
- EMR- Need for big data.
- Cloud Search -
- Elastic Search -
- Kinesis -
- Data Pipeline -
- Quick Sight - Business analytics tool.
SECURITY & IDENTITY
- IAM - this it the fundamental service.
- Inspector -
- Certificate Manager -
- Directory Service -
- WAF -
- Artifact -
MANAGEMENT TOOLS
- Cloud Watch -
- Cloud Formation -
- Cloud Trail -
- Opsworks -
- Config -
- Service Catalog -
- Trusted Advisor -
APPLICATION SERVICES
- Step Functions -
- SWF -
- API Gateway
- AppStream - streaming desktop applications.
- Elastic Transcoder -
DEVELOPER TOOLS
- CodeCommit
- CodeBuild
- CodeDeploy
- CodePipeline
MOBILE SERVICES
- Mobile hub
- Cognito
- Device Farm
- Mobile Analytics
- Pinpoint
BUSINESS PRODUCTIVITY
- WorkDocs
- WorkMails
INTERNET OF THINGS
- iOT
DESKTOP & APP STREAMING
- WorkSpaces
- AppStream 2.0
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- Alexa
- Polly
- Machine Learning
- Rekognition
MESSAGING
- SNS
- SQS
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