Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview
AWS Academy Cloud Foundations
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Module overview
Topics
• Introduction to cloud computing
• Advantages of cloud computing
• Introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)
Knowledge check
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Module objectives
After completing this module, you should be able to:
• Define different types of cloud computing models
• Describe six advantages of cloud computing
• Recognize the main AWS service categories and core services
• Review the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)
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Section 1: Introduction to cloud
computing
Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview
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What is cloud computing?
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Cloud computing defined
Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of compute power,
database, storage, applications, and other IT resources via the internet
with pay-as-you-go pricing.
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Infrastructure as software
Cloud computing enables you to stop thinking of your infrastructure as
hardware, and instead think of (and use) it as software.
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Traditional computing model
• Infrastructure as hardware
• Hardware solutions:
• Require space, staff, physical
security, planning, capital
expenditure
• Have a long hardware procurement
cycle
• Require you to provision capacity
by guessing theoretical maximum
peaks
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Cloud computing model
• Infrastructure as software
• Software solutions:
• Are flexible
• Can change more quickly, easily,
and cost-effectively than hardware
solutions
• Eliminate the undifferentiated
heavy-lifting tasks
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Cloud service models
IaaS PaaS SaaS
(infrastructure as (platform as a (software as a
a service) service) service)
More control Less control
over IT resources over IT resources
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Cloud computing deployment models
Cloud Hybrid On-premises
(private cloud)
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Similarities between AWS and traditional IT
Traditional, on-premises IT space AWS
Security
Security groups
Firewalls ACLs Administrators Network ACLs IAM
Networking
Router Network pipeline Switch Elastic Load Balancing Amazon VPC
On-premises Compute
servers Amazon EC2
AMI
instances
Storage and
DAS SAN NAS RDBMS
database Amazon Amazon Amazon Amazon
EBS EFS S3 RDS
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• Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT
Section 1 key resources via the internet with pay-as-you-go
takeaways pricing.
• Cloud computing enables you to think of (and use)
your infrastructure as software.
• There are three cloud service models: IaaS, PaaS,
and SaaS.
• There are three cloud deployment models: cloud,
hybrid, and on-premises or private cloud.
• Almost anything you can implement with
traditional IT can also be implemented as an AWS
cloud computing service.
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Section 2: Advantages of cloud
computing
Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview
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Trade capital expense for variable expense
Capital
Data center investment Pay only for the amount
based on forecast you consume
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Massive economies of scale
Because of aggregate usage from all customers, AWS can achieve
higher economies of scale and pass savings on to customers.
AWS Cloud
Economies of scale Savings
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Stop guessing capacity
Overestimated Underestimated Scaling on
server capacity server capacity demand
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Increase speed and agility
Launch
Weeks between wanting resources Minutes between wanting
and having resources resources and having
resources
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Stop spending money on
running and maintaining data centers
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Go global in minutes
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Section 2 key • Trade capital expense for variable expense
takeaways • Benefit from massive economies of scale
• Stop guessing capacity
• Increase speed and agility
• Stop spending money on running and
maintaining data centers
• Go global in minutes
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Section 3: Introduction to Amazon
Web Services (AWS)
Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview
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What are web services?
A web service is any piece of software that makes itself available over
the internet and uses a standardized format—such as Extensible Markup
Language (XML) or JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)—for the request
and the response of an application programming interface (API)
interaction.
Request message
Internet
Response message
Client Web service
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What is AWS?
• AWS is a secure cloud platform that offers a broad set of global cloud-
based products.
• AWS provides you with on-demand access to compute, storage,
network, database, and other IT resources and management tools.
• AWS offers flexibility.
• You pay only for the individual services you need, for as long as you
use them.
• AWS services work together like building blocks.
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Categories of AWS services
Analytics Application AR and VR Blockchain Business Compute
Integration Applications
Cost Customer Database Developer Tools End User Game Tech
Management Engagement Computing
Internet Machine Management and Media Services Migration and Mobile
of Things Learning Governance Transfer
Networking and Robotics Satellite Security, Identity, and Storage
Content Delivery Compliance
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Simple solution example
Networking Compute Database Storage
AWS Cloud
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Amazon
DynamoDB
Users Amazon S3
Amazon EC2
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Choosing a service
The service you select depends on your business goals and technology
requirements.
Amazon
VMware Cloud EC2 AWS
on AWS Lambda
Amazon ECS ? AWS Elastic
Beanstalk
Amazon EKS
Amazon
AWS Fargate
AWS Outposts Lightsail
AWS Batch
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Services covered in this course
Compute services – Storage services – Management and
• Amazon EC2 • Amazon S3 Governance services –
• AWS Lambda • Amazon S3 Glacier • AWS Trusted Advisor
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk • Amazon EFS • AWS CloudWatch
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling • Amazon EBS • AWS CloudTrail
• Amazon ECS • AWS Well-Architected Tool
• Amazon EKS Database services – • AWS Auto Scaling
• Amazon ECR • Amazon RDS • AWS Command Line Interface
• AWS Fargate • Amazon DynamoDB • AWS Config
• Amazon Redshift • AWS Management Console
• Amazon Aurora • AWS Organizations
Security, Identity, and
Compliance services – Networking and Content AWS Cost Management
• AWS IAM Delivery services – services –
• Amazon Cognito • Amazon VPC • AWS Cost & Usage
• AWS Shield • Amazon Route 53 Report
• AWS Artifact • Amazon CloudFront • AWS Budgets
• AWS KMS • Elastic Load Balancing • AWS Cost Explorer
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Three ways to interact with AWS
AWS Management Console
Easy-to-use graphical interface
Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)
Access to services by discrete commands or scripts
Software Development Kits (SDKs)
Access services directly from your code (such as Java, Python, and
others)
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• AWS is a secure cloud platform that offers a broad
Section 3 key set of global cloud-based products called services
takeaways that are designed to work together.
• There are many categories of AWS services, and
each category has many services to choose from.
• Choose a service based on your business goals
and technology requirements.
• There are three ways to interact with AWS services.
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Section 4: Moving to the AWS Cloud –
The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework
(AWS CAF)
Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview
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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)
• AWS CAF provides guidance and
best practices to help
organizations build a
comprehensive approach to
cloud computing across the
organization and throughout the
IT lifecycle to accelerate
successful cloud adoption.
AWS CAF perspectives • AWS CAF is organized into six
perspectives.
• Perspectives consist of sets of
capabilities.
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Six core perspectives
Focus on business Focus on technical
capabilities capabilities
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Business perspective
We must ensure that IT is aligned with business
needs, and that IT investments can be traced to
demonstrable business results.
IT finance
IT strategy
Benefits realization
Business risk management
Business managers, finance
Business perspective capabilities managers, budget owners,
and strategy stakeholders
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People perspective
We must prioritize training, staffing, and
organizational changes to build an agile
organization.
Resource management
Incentive management
Career management
Training management
Organizational change
management
Human resources, staffing,
and people managers
People perspective capabilities
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Governance perspective
We must ensure that skills and processes align IT
strategy and goals with business strategy and goals so
Portfolio management
the organization can maximize the business value of
its IT investment and minimize business risks.
Program and
project management
Business performance
measurement
License management
Governance perspective capabilities
CIO, program managers, enterprise
architects, business analysts, and
portfolio managers
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Platform perspective
We must understand and communicate the
nature of IT systems and their relationships. We
Compute provisioning must be able to describe the architecture of the
target state environment in detail.
Network provisioning
Storage provisioning
Database provisioning
Systems and solution
architecture
CTO, IT managers, and
Application development
solutions architects
Platform perspective capabilities
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Security perspective
We must ensure that the organization meets its
security objectives.
Identity and access
management
Detective control
Infrastructure security
Data protection
CISO, IT security managers,
Incident response and IT security analysts
Security perspective capabilities
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Operations perspective
We align with and support the operations of the
Service monitoring business, and define how day-to-day, quarter-to-
quarter, and year-to-year business will be
Application performance
monitoring conducted.
Resource inventory
management
Release management/
change management
Reporting and analytics
Business continuity/
Disaster recovery IT operations managers and
IT service catalog IT support managers
Operations perspective capabilities
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• Cloud adoption is not instantaneous for most
Section 4 key organizations and requires a thoughtful, deliberate
takeaways strategy and alignment across the whole
organization.
• The AWS CAF was created to help organizations
develop efficient and effective plans for their cloud
adoption journey.
• The AWS CAF organizes guidance into six areas of
focus, called perspectives.
• Perspectives consist of sets of business or
technology capabilities that are the responsibility
of key stakeholders.
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Module wrap-up
Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview
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Module summary
In summary, in this module you learned how to:
• Define different types of cloud computing models
• Describe six advantages of cloud computing
• Recognize the main AWS service categories and core services
• Review the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework
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Complete the knowledge check
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Sample exam question
Why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with varying compute
workloads?
Choice Response
A Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) costs are billed on a monthly basis.
B Customers retain full administrative access to their Amazon EC2 instances.
C Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on-demand when needed.
D Customers can permanently run enough instances to handle peak workloads.
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Sample exam question answer
Why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with varying compute
workloads?
The correct answer is C.
The keywords in the question are AWS is more economical than traditional data centers for
applications with varying.
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Additional resources
• What is AWS? YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=mZ5H8sn_2ZI&feature=youtu.be
• Cloud computing with AWS website: https://aws.amazon.com/what-is-aws/
• Overview of Amazon Web Services whitepaper: https:
//d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-overview.pdf
• An Overview of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework whitepaper: https:
//d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws_cloud_adoption_framework.pdf
• 6 Strategies for Migrating Applications to the Cloud AWS Cloud Enterprise Strategy
blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/enterprise-strategy/6-strategies-for-
migrating-applications-to-the-cloud/
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