Module 1: Cloud Concepts

AW S A c a d e m y C l o u d F o u n d a t i o n s

Overview

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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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Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview

Section 1: Introduction to cloud computing

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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 (platform as a (software as a
as 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 IAM
ACLs

Networking
Router Network pipeline Switch Elastic Load Balancing Amazon VPC

On- Compute
premises Amazon EC2
AMI
servers 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
Section 1 key delivery of IT resources via the
internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.
takeaways • 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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Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview

Section 2: Advantages of cloud computing

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Trade capital expense for variable
expense

Capital

Data center investment Pay only for the

based on forecast amount
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 Minutes between wanting

resources and having resources and having
resources resources

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Stop spending money on
running and maintaining data
centers

Investment

Running data centers Business and customers

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Go global in minutes

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 • Trade capital expense for
Section 2 key 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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Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview
Section 3: Introduction to Amazon Web
Services (AWS)

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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, Storage

Content Delivery and
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Simple solution example

Networkin Comput Database Storage

g e
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
• AWS Fargate • Amazon DynamoDB Interface
• Amazon Redshift • AWS Config
• Amazon Aurora • AWS Management Console
Security, Identity, and • AWS Organizations
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
Section 3 key offers a broad set of global cloud-
takeaways based products called services 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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Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview
Section 4: Moving to the AWS Cloud – The
AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

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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
AWS CAF perspectives successful cloud adoption.
• AWS CAF is organized into
six perspectives.
• Perspectives consist of sets of
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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
Resource management
an agile organization.

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 the organization can maximize the business value
Portfolio management 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

Service monitoring
the business, and define how day-to-day,
quarter-to-quarter, and year-to-year
Application performance
monitoring
business will be conducted.
Resource inventory
management
Release management/
change management

Reporting and analytics

Business continuity/
Disaster recovery
IT operations managers and
IT support managers
IT service catalog

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 • Cloud adoption is not instantaneous
Section 4 key for most organizations and requires
takeaways a thoughtful, deliberate 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
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Module wrap-up

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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?

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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Additional resources

• What is AWS? YouTube video

• Cloud computing with AWS website
• Overview of Amazon Web Services whitepaper
• An Overview of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework
whitepaper
• 6 Strategies for Migrating Applications to the Cloud AWS Cloud
Enterprise Strategy blog post

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