AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide

Based on the Study Guide presented by Andrew Brown

What is Cloud Computing?

The practice of using a network on a remote server hosted on the internet to store, manage, and process data.

Dedicated Server

A single physical machine owned by one business that runs a single web-app/site.

Virtual Private Server

A single physical machine that uses virtualization to create sub-machines that runs multiple web-apps/sites.

Shared Hosting

An inexpensive method that uses one physical machine shared between businesses making for poor isolation and limited utilization.

Cloud Hosting

Multiple machines working together as a single system (distributed computing) abstracted into many cloud services.

SQS

Simple Queue Service: First AWS service launched in 2004.

S3

Simple Storage Service launched early 2006.

EC2

Elastic Compute Cloud launched later 2006.

Cloud Service Provider

A company providing multiple cloud services accessed via a single unified API, with capabilities such as cloud architecture, cloud traacking, and metered billing.

Iaas

Infrastructure as a service

Paas

Platform as a service

Saas

Software as a service