AWS Fundamentals (CLF-C01)

Welcome to the AWS Fundamentals lab. In this module, you will be provided with the instructions and devices needed to develop your hands-on skills.

Public cloud computing can be defined as running and accessing different computing services on externally hosted and maintained hardware. The hardware is situated in data centers located across the world to provide availability and redundancy for clients.

These public providers are known as Cloud Services Providers (CSPs). There are several CSPs available to create and run the needed services. The most popular and well-known CSPs are Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS),

AWS is one of the leading CSP’s globally, and as of 2022, boasts 35% of all global cloud market infrastructure (of c.$200 billion), making Amazon the largest CSP used by world-leading businesses.

AWS offers clients a vast number of cloud services to customers. The core cloud services offered by AWS include Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).

In this module, the basic cloud services will be discussed and explored with the main focus on AWS Cloud Services.

Alert: A pre-populated AWS account will be used to complete the exercises in this module. It will not be necessary to sign-up for a free account through Amazon Web Services. It is important to note that certain restrictions have been applied to the lab environment. These include that only specific resources can be created in the specified region. If the region is changed, the steps in the tasks will not function accordingly.