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Cloud Concepts Domain

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  • Define the value proposition of the AWS Cloud
  • Identify design principles of AWS Cloud
  • Understand benefits and strategies for migrating existing infrastructure to AWS Cloud
  • Understand concepts of cloud economics
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What is the Cloud?

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  • The internet; worldwide network with communication
  • Browser =request=> ISP =request=> Server => Web Host =packets=> Browser
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What is Cloud Computing?

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  • On-demand delivery of compute, database storage, application, and other IT resources
  • Pay as you go
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Features of Cloud Computing

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  • Instantaneous access when and where you want it
  • More flexible and affordable than legacy infrastructure
  • Affordable for smaller budgets
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A Brief History of the Cloud

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  • Mainframe computing (1950s)
  • Virtual machines (1970)
  • Hypervisor: software that links multiple hardware to use as one giant computer
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Cloud Computing in Daily Life

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  • Email streaming, Microsoft Office, G-Suite
  • Free tier, mid-tier, high-tier
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Advantages of Cloud Computing

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  • Trade capital expense for variable expense (pay as you go)
  • Benefit from massive economies of scale (cheaper)
  • Increase speed and agility
  • Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers
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AWS Well-Architected Framework

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  • Cost Optimization
  • Reliability
  • Operational Excellence
  • Performance
  • Security
  • Sustainability
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Cost Optimization in AWS Well-Architected Framework

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  • Use what you need
  • Reserve resources in advance
  • Monitor for optimization
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Reliability in AWS Well-Architected Framework

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  • Test disaster recovery settings
  • Incorporate redundancy by having duplicate copies of resources
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Operational Excellence in AWS Well-Architected Framework

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  • Document everything
  • Refine operational procedures
  • Anticipate failure and learn from it
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Security in AWS Well-Architected Framework

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  • Automate best practices
  • Always protect data
  • Enable traceability
  • Manage access
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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

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  • Best practices to help successful infrastructure migration to the cloud
  • Provides recommendations for implementing, adopting, configuring, and maintaining effective workflows in the cloud
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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework Transformation Value Chain

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  • Technological transformation
  • Process transformation
  • Organizational transformation
  • Product transformation
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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework Technological Transformation

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  • Utilize the cloud to migrate and modernize legacy infrastructure applications, and data and analytics platforms
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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework Process Transformation

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  • Digitize, automate, and optimize business operations
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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework Organizational Transformation

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  • Reimagine the operational model or how your business and technology teams work together to create customer value and meet strategic goals
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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework Product Transformation

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  • Reimagine the business model by creating new value propositions and revenue models
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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework Key Business Outcomes

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  • Reduced business risk
  • Improved environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance
  • Revenue growth
  • Increased operational efficiency
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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework Perspectives

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  • Business perspective
  • People perspective
  • Governance perspective
  • Platform perspective
  • Security perspective
  • Operations perspective
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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework Business Perspective

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  • Ensure that cloud investments accelerate digital transformation and business outcomes
  • Stakeholders: CEO, CFO, COO, CIO, CTO
  • Examples: strategy and product management
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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework People Perspective

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  • Create a culture of continuous growth and learning where change is embraced
  • Stakeholders: CIO, COO, CTO, cloud director, cross-functional leaders
  • Examples: cloud fluency of employees and organizational design
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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework Governance Perspective

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  • Maximize organizational benefits while minimizing cloud-transformation related risks
  • Stakeholders: chief transformation officer, CIO, CTO, CFO, chief data officer, chief risk officer
  • Examples: risk-management and data governance
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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework Platform Perspective

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  • Build enterprise-grade, scalable, hybrid cloud platforms, implement cloud-native solutions, and modernize existing infrastructure
  • Stakeholders: CTO, technology leaders, technology architects, technology engineers
  • Examples: platform engineering and modern application development
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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework Security Perspective

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  • Achieve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability needs of cloud data and workloads
  • Stakeholders: chief information security officer, chief compliance officer, internal audit leaders, security architects, and security engineers
  • Examples: security governance and threat detection
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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework Operations Perspective

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  • Ensure that the cloud services meet business needs
  • Stakeholders: infrastructure leaders, operations leaders, site reliability engineers, and IT service managers
  • Examples: observability management and incident and problem management
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Cloud Transformation Journey

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  • Envision: demonstrate how cloud adoption will help accelerate business outcomes and objectives
  • Align: identify capability gaps across the six CAF perspectives, identify cross-organizational dependencies, and recognize stakeholder concerns
  • Launch: deliver pilot initiatives in production and demonstrate incremental business value before scaling to production
  • Scale: expand plots, scaling up to meet desired business needs while sustaining business benefits
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A Brief History of AWS

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  • Launched international as Amazon.com Web Service in 2002
  • Amazon evolved from online store to service company
  • 10% of Amazon’s revenue in 2017
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What is AWS?

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  • Provides IT infrastructure serves to organizations as web services
  • Resources are accessed using the internet
  • Utilizes pay-as-you-go model
  • Many groups of services
  • Flexibility, reliability, and affordability
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AWS Compute Services

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  • Virtual server hosting, container management, and serverless computing
  • Rent server computer space and capacities for cheap
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AWS Storage Services

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  • Storage for both in-use and archival files
  • Different costs associated with how often you need to access the files and how durable or available you want them to be
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AWS Database Services

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  • Fully managed relational and NoSQL databases (RDS and DynamoDB)
  • Fully managed scalable petabyte-scale data warehouse service (Redshift and Elastic Cache)
  • Scalable and cost-efficient

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