Mastering Cloud Infrastructure and Security

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Course Outline

  1. Cloud concepts and global infrastructure
  2. Security and compliance shared responsibility
  3. Core AWS services for compute storage networking
  4. Billing models and cost optimization
  5. AI and ML services for GenAI use cases
  6. Operational monitoring, logging and governance

1. Cloud concepts and global infrastructure

Key Concepts & Definitions

  • Elasticity : Elasticity is the ability to automatically scale resources up or down to match changing demand.
  • Scalability : Scalability is the capacity of a system to handle growth in users, workload, or data by adding resources.
  • High availability : High availability is designing systems to minimize downtime by using redundancy and failover.
  • Fault tolerance : Fault tolerance is the ability to keep operating despite failures of components or availability zones.
  • Disaster recovery : Disaster recovery is the set of practices and plans to restore service after major outages or disasters.

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1. Which term describes the ability to automatically increase or decrease resources to match changing demand?

2. In the shared responsibility model, which task is primarily managed by the customer?

3. Which AWS service provides resizable virtual servers for running full operating systems and applications?

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Cloud infrastructure β€” purpose?

Global network of data centers and regions.

Shared responsibility model β€” role?

Divides security duties between AWS and customer.

Core AWS compute service?

Amazon EC2 provides resizable virtual servers.

Cost optimization tools?

Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, Cost Explorer, Budgets.

GenAI foundation model service?

Amazon Bedrock offers access to foundation models.

Monitoring service?

Amazon CloudWatch monitors AWS resources and applications.

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