[NEW] AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02 for Beginner

Explore the basics of cloud computing, define cloud computing and its core services: compute, storage, networking, and database, while learning effective note-taking strategies to reinforce AWS learning.

Cloud computing provides on-demand access to a worldwide, shared pool of compute, storage, networking, and services over the internet, with pay-as-you-go pricing and rapid provisioning.

Explore the four core cloud computing services: compute, storage, database, and networking. Understand how on-demand processing power and connectivity enable cloud applications.

Explore cloud deployment models: public, private, and hybrid, and learn how location, control, and access shape infrastructure decisions for security, compliance, and cost.

Define traditional data centers, their components, and common on-premises challenges. Learn how cloud computing offers scalable, on-demand servers, storage, and networking to offset costs and capacity risks.

Explain cloud service models— infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and software as a service— and show how each layer delivers from infrastructure to applications.

Explore key cloud concepts—scalability with vertical and horizontal scaling, elasticity, dynamic resource allocation, and the foundations of high availability and fault tolerance for reliable, scalable systems in AWS certification.

Learn how cloud agility enables rapid provisioning of virtual machines, and how high availability and fault tolerance use multi-server setups, load balancing, and redundant components to keep applications online.

Learn how cloud computing trades capex for opex, pays only for what you use, achieves economies of scale, eliminates capacity guessing, speeds deployment, and enables global expansion.

Explore the landscape of cloud providers, from client-server to distributed computing. Compare Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, highlighting their strengths for informed cloud solutions.

Understand how an AWS account acts as a container for resources and identity. Apply naming conventions, avoid the root user, use IAM with administrator access, and attach a credit card.

Learn to create an AWS free tier account, sign up, verify email and phone, set up billing with a credit card, and access the AWS Management Console.

Explore how to use the AWS free tier to gain hands-on experience without charges, including free trials, 12-month free, and always free services like Lambda and S3.

Learn how to secure an AWS account with multi-factor authentication, strong password policy, and safe handling of access keys for programmatic access, including rotation and least privilege.

Enable multi-factor authentication for your AWS account with a virtual MFA device in the IAM dashboard using Google Authenticator, and enforce a 16-character password policy.

Set up an AWS free tier budget and billing alerts to avoid unexpected charges. Enable cost explorer, create a $3 budget, and configure 50% and 80% email or SMS alerts.

Learn to create an AWS free tier account and set up budgets and alerts, then complete and submit two-part assignments with hands-on practice for cloud practitioner fundamentals.

Learn three ways to interact with AWS: the management console, the CLI, and the SDK, and discover when to automate tasks and enable infrastructure as code with each tool.

Learn to sign into the AWS Management Console with root or IAM credentials, enable multi-factor authentication, set an account alias, switch regions, and access services via search or the dashboard.

Install the AWS CLI on macOS and verify it from the terminal, noting the same steps work for Linux and Windows, with future lessons on configuring and using the CLI.

Install the AWS CLI on a Windows machine using the MSI installer and complete the setup. Verify the installation by running aws --version to confirm the CLI is version 2.

Learn to install the AWS CLI on Linux (Ubuntu 22.04), following three commands to download, unzip, install, and verify with aws --version.

Configure the AWS CLI to authenticate with access keys, avoid root user keys, set your region and json output format, and use aws s3 list to inspect buckets.

Explore AWS Cloud Shell, a browser-based, secure shell to access resources with the CLI and SDK. Switch region, manage S3 buckets, and upload or download files in a reliable environment.

Learn how to configure multiple AWS CLI profiles for different accounts, create access keys, set regions, and switch between profiles to access account resources and S3 buckets.

Design your apps across multiple AWS regions and availability zones to achieve high availability and fault tolerance, using regional data centers with redundant power and connectivity.

Explore how AWS edge locations cache data and power content delivery via CloudFront and Route 53, bringing content closer to users worldwide.

Explore identity and access management in AWS, explaining identification, authentication, and authorization, and how IAM policies enforce least-privilege, fine-grained access to AWS services and resources.

Explore how AWS IAM uses users, groups, and roles to control access, including root vs IAM users, group-based permissions, and role-based temporary credentials for services like EC2 accessing S3.

Create and manage IAM users and groups in the AWS console, assigning AWS managed policies such as EC2 full access and S3 full access to Ram, Shyam, and their groups.

Log in as an IAM user to the AWS console, create an EC2 role by selecting AWS service, attach Amazon S3 Full Access, review and create; enable MFA.

Learn how IAM policies define permissions for users, groups, roles, and resources, and distinguish identity-based, resource-based, managed, customer managed, and inline policies with AWS examples.

Explore how IAM policies grant permissions through a JSON template, using a librarian example to control access to an S3 bucket and its objects with actions like list and get.

Adopt IAM best practices to secure AWS accounts by creating individual users, forming permission groups, applying least privilege policies, enabling CloudTrail, enforcing password policies and MFA, and rotating credentials.

Explore IAM access analyzer to enforce least privilege by monitoring internal and external access across AWS accounts and resources, review findings in a central dashboard, and automate policy validation.

Hands-on guidance on IAM access analyzer in the AWS Management Console: create external and unused analyzers and enable them across accounts, review access and credentials reports to remove unused permissions.

Review AWS cost management essentials, including setting up the free tier budget and alerts. Explore the cost explorer to track expenses and understand IAM Access Analyzer pricing to avoid surprises.

Learn about S3: buckets, folders, and objects, accessible via console, CLI, or SDK. Cover sizes up to five terabytes, multi-part uploads, versioning, storage classes, and bucket policies.

Understand availability, durability, and data replication in S3, including SLA promises, 11 nines of data durability, and cross-zone replication across availability zones within a region.

Learn how to create an S3 bucket, name it uniquely, set a region, upload files and folders, and manage object properties and access within the AWS console.

Explore AWS S3 storage classes, including S3 standard, infrequent access, one zone infrequent access, intelligent-tiering, and Glacier variants, and learn their durability, availability, cost tradeoffs, and usage.

Explore how Amazon S3 storage classes affect cost, durability, and availability. Follow a hands-on walkthrough to create a bucket, select a region, and apply standard or infrequent access classes.

Explore S3 security fundamentals, including default private buckets, who has access via bucket and identity policies, plus object and bucket ACL distinctions and why bucket policies replace older ACL use.

Explore the difference between resource policies and identity policies in AWS, and learn how the principle, actions, and resources determine who can access an S3 bucket.

Explore S3 bucket policies, a JSON resource policy, and how they grant or deny access with principals, conditions, and prefixes through practical cross-account, public, and encryption scenarios.

Engage in a hands-on AWS S3 bucket policy tutorial by creating a Mumbai region bucket, uploading an image, and applying a public bucket policy to grant access.

Understand block public access in S3 and how it protects data by preventing unintended public exposure, at both bucket and account levels. Configure bucket and account level controls.

Learn to create an S3 bucket in the Mumbai region, upload an image, and apply a bucket policy to make it public, while exploring block public access settings.

Learn to generate AWS policies with the AWS Policy Generator by selecting policy type, setting allow or deny, defining the principle and actions, and applying least-privileged permissions.

Explore how S3 encryption protects data in transit and at rest, and compare server-side versus client-side encryption, including who manages keys and the encryption process in AWS.

Discover how to enable and use S3 server-side encryption in the AWS management console. Understand default encryption with SSE-S3 and how to choose keys during upload.