AWS A cad emy Clou d Fou n d ation s

Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview

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 Module overview
Topics
• Introduction to cloud computing
• Advantages of cloud computing
• Introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

Knowledge check

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 Module objectives
After completing this module, you should be able to:
• Define different types of cloud computing models
• Describe six advantages of cloud computing
• Recognize the main AWS service categories and core services
• Review the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

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Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview

Section 1: Introduction to cloud computing

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 What is cloud computing?

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 Cloud computing defined
Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of compute power,
database, storage, applications, and other IT resources via the
internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.

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Infrastructure as software

Cloud computing enables you to stop thinking of your

infrastructure as hardware, and instead think of (and use) it as
software.

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 Traditional computing model
• Infrastructure as hardware
• Hardware solutions:
• Require space, staff, physical security,
planning, capital expenditure
• Have a long hardware procurement
cycle
• Require you to provision capacity by
guessing theoretical maximum peaks

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 Cloud computing model
• Infrastructure as software
• Software solutions:
• Are flexible
• Can change more quickly, easily, and
cost-effectively than hardware
solutions
• Eliminate the undifferentiated heavy-
lifting tasks

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 Cloud service models
IaaS PaaS SaaS
(infrastructure as a (platform as a (software as a
service) service) service)

More control Less control

over IT resources over IT resources

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Cloud computing deployment models

Cloud Hybrid On-premises

(private cloud)

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Similarities between AWS and traditional IT

Traditional, on-premises IT space AWS

Security
Security groups
Firewalls ACLs Administrators Network ACLs IAM

Networking
Router Network pipeline Switch Elastic Load Balancing Amazon VPC

On-premises Compute
servers Amazon EC2
AMI
instances

Storage and
DAS SAN NAS RDBMS
database Amazon EBS Amazon Amazon Amazon
EFS S3 RDS

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 • Cloud computing is the on-demand
Section 1 key delivery of IT resources via the internet
with pay-as-you-go pricing.
takeaways • Cloud computing enables you to think of
(and use) your infrastructure as
software.
• There are three cloud service models:
IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
• There are three cloud deployment
models: cloud, hybrid, and on-premises
or private cloud.
• Almost anything you can implement with
traditional IT can also be implemented
as an AWS cloud computing service.
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