Identifying AWS Services (CLF-C02)

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

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a comprehensive suite of cloud computing services designed to provide scalable, reliable, and cost-effective solutions for business. These services include computing power with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), storage options like Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), and databases such as Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) and Amazon DynamoDB. AWS also provides networking services, content delivery, machine learning, and analytics tools, among others.

To manage and automate infrastructure deployment, AWS offers AWS CloudFormation—a service that allows users to define their infrastructure in code using templates, enabling consistent and repeatable provisioning of resources.

In this module, you will conduct a manual configuration of a simple public webserver deployment and then deploy the same configuration with CloudFormation.

Overview

Learning Outcomes

In this module, you will complete the following exercises:

  • Exercise 1 – Create a Public Website Manually
  • Exercise 2 – Create a Public Website Using CloudFormation

After completing this module, you should be able to:

  • Create a  Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and public subnet.
  • Create an Internet gateway and route table.
  • Create a security group.
  • Launch an Elastic Compute Cloud (E2) instance web server.
  • Create and launch a stack with CloudFormation.

Exam Objectives

The following exam objectives are covered in this module:

1.4 Understand concepts of cloud economics

  • Skills – Understanding the role of fixed costs compared with variable costs
  • Skills – Understanding the concept of right sizing
  • Skills – Identifying benefits of automation (for example, provisioning and configuration management with AWS CloudFormation)
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