AWS Global Infrastructure (CLF-C02)

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

AWS global infrastructure consists of multiple Availability Zones (AZs) and Edge locations strategically distributed around the globe. AZs are isolated locations within AWS regions that are physically and logically separate from one another, providing redundancy and fault tolerance. Edge locations are points of presence (POPs) that reside in major cities worldwide. They are in place to facilitate the caching and delivery of content by the Amazon CloudFront content delivery network (CDN) at very low latency. Together, AZs and Edge locations enable AWS to offer highly available, scalable, and performant services to customers globally and ensuring reliable and responsive cloud computing experiences.

In this module, you will learn about the AWS global infrastructure.

Overview

Learning Outcomes

In this module, you will complete the following exercises:

  • Exercise 1 – Availability Zones and Edge Locations
  • Exercise 2 – Multi-AZ Deployment for High Availability
  • Exercise 3 – Deploying a Multi-AZ Database

After completing this module, you should be able to:

  • Discover AWS AZ and edge documentation.
  • Discover Multi-AZ documentation.
  • Create a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Database (DB).
  • Deploy a DB to multiple AZs.

Exam Objectives

The following exam objectives are covered in this module:

3.2 Define the AWS global infrastructure

  • Skills – Describing relationships among Regions, AZs, and edge locations
  • Skills – Describing how to achieve high availability by using multiple AZs
  • Skills – Recognizing that AZs do not share single points of failure
  • Skills – Describing when to use multiple regions (for example, disaster recovery, business continuity, low latency for end users, data sovereignty)
  • Skills – Describing at a high level the benefits of edge locations (for example, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator)
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