Module 1 Introduction

AWS Cloud Practitioner - Office Hours

Domain 1: Cloud Concepts

 1.1 Define the AWS Cloud and its value proposition

•  Define the benefits of the AWS cloud including:
• Security
• Reliability
• High Availability
• Elasticity
• Agility
• Pay-as-you go pricing
• Scalability
• Global Reach
• Economy of scale 

•  Explain how the AWS cloud allows users to focus on business value
• Shifting technical resources to revenue-generating activities as opposed to managing infrastructure

 

1.2 Identify aspects of AWS Cloud economics

• Define items that would be part of a Total Cost of Ownership proposal
• Understand the role of operational expenses (OpEx)
• Understand the role of capital expenses (CapEx)
• Understand labor costs associated with on-premises operations
• Understand the impact of software licensing costs when moving to the cloud 

• Identify which operations will reduce costs by moving to the cloud
• Right-sized infrastructure
• Benefits of automation
• Reduce compliance scope (for example, reporting)
• Managed services (for example, RDS, ECS, EKS, DynamoDB) 

1.3 Explain the different cloud architecture design principles

• Explain the design principles
• Design for failure
• Decouple components versus monolithic architecture
• Implement elasticity in the cloud versus on-premises
• Think parallel

Questions

1. Describe differences between on-demand delivery and cloud deployments. 
Answer: Summarize the pay-as-you-go pricing model.

2. What is cloud computing? 
Answer:  On-demand delivery of IT resources and applications through the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing

3. How does the scale of cloud computing help you to save costs?
The aggregated cloud usage from a large number of customers results in lower pay-as-you-go prices.

4. What is another name for on-premises deployment?
Private cloud deployment.