Architecture Fundamentals of AWS for Cloud Practitioner

In addition to the many services covered on the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam, you should be familiar with concepts and best practices designed to help AWS users succeed with cloud computing, and understand how AWS structures its services across the globe.

This lesson begins with a lecture covering the different types of AWS global infrastructure, which includes regions, availability zones, edge locations, and regional edge caches. What we’re talking about here is AWS data center hardware, and how it is organized around the world. Understanding how AWS organizes its infrastructure, how AWS infrastructure works, and how to use it to your benefit is essential AWS knowledge.

Next, we discuss the AWS’ Well-Architected Framework, a set of best practices established by experienced AWS solution architects. To be clear - knowledge of how to technically configure well-architected solutions is outside the scope of the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam. However, you should be familiar with the fundamental best practices of cloud architecture, which we will introduce in this lesson.

Finally, we discuss basic techniques for disaster recovery. There are well-established methods for restoring AWS services, in the unlikely event of an outage. This lesson will not discuss the step-by-step process of disaster recovery, which is addressed in other lessons. This lesson will provide an overview of each different method, and how each one balances the competing business needs of high availability and cost optimization.

Learning Objectives

• Understand how the different components of AWS global infrastructure work, and can impact AWS cloud solutions
• List and describe the five pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Summarize the standard disaster recovery methods, and how a business would select a method based on its service needs

Intended Audience

This lesson is designed for:

• Anyone preparing for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• Managers, sales professionals, and other non-technical roles

Prerequisites

Before taking this lesson, you should have a general understanding of basic cloud computing concepts.

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