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This Episode’s Learning Outcomes
• AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Disaster Recovery
• Shared Responsibility Model
• Management & Governance
• Billing & Pricing
• Security
• Cloud Adoption Framework

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Weekly Program Summary
Task Description Duration
Attend Kickoff Session You Are Here! We will cover program basics and summarize your next 60 minutes
couple weeks of learning.
Complete AWS Cloud Complete the Cloud Practitioner Essentials Learning Plan to develop a ~8 hours
Practitioner Essentials fundamental understanding of the AWS Cloud.

Attend Study Session 1 Review a range of AWS technologies, cloud concepts, security & 90 minutes
compliance, and billing & pricing

Attend Study Session 2 Review the AWS Well-Architected Framework, exam strategy, best 90 minutes
practices, and intro to CloudQuest
Attend Study Session 3 Apply knowledge and test concepts through a series of practice exam 90 minutes
questions
Schedule Exam It’s a pleasure supporting you on your AWS Certification journey! Best 90 minutes
of luck on your exam!

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Additional Resources

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The Skill Builder subscription provides access to official AWS Certification practice exams, self-paced digital training content
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AWS Cloud Quest
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AWS Well-Architected
Framework

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AWS Well-Architected Framework
Build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure

• Foundational questions to understand cloud best practice alignment

• Consistent approach to evaluate and remediate a given architecture
• Design and operate cloud-based systems that are:
• Reliable
• Secure
• Efficient
• Cost effective
• Review process is conversational and ongoing

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AWS Well-Architected Framework
Build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure

Pillar focused on running and

monitoring systems, and continually
improving processes and procedures

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Operational Excellence
Pillar

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Operational Excellence
Running and Monitoring systems; continually improving processes and procedures

What it is
• Support development and run workloads effectively
• Gain insight into operations
• Continuously improve supporting processes / procedures
• … to deliver business value

The Goal
Get new features and bug fixes into customers’ hands quickly and reliably

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Operational Excellence
Key Topics!

• Automate changes
• Respond to events
• Define standards to manage daily operations

EXAM TIP!
Think of manual intervention as a risk to be mitigated with operational
automation. Look for questions where automated processes could be
implemented as the solution.

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Security Pillar

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Security Pillar
Take advantage of cloud technologies to protect data systems and assets to
improve security posture

What it is
• Encompasses ability to protect data, systems, and assets
• Take advantage of cloud technologies to improve your security
• Control access to your data and systems
• Respond automatically to security events

The Goal
Meet business and regulatory requirements for your workloads in the cloud

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Security Pillar
Key Topics!

• Confidentiality and integrity of data

• Managing user permissions
• Establishing controls to detect security events

EXAM TIP!
Security is critical – look for questions highlighting a need to
design secure architectures

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Reliability Pillar

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Reliability Pillar
Build architectures with strong foundations, resilient architecture, consistent
change management, and proven failure recovery processes

What it is
• Encompasses ability of a workload to perform intended function
• Correctly and consistently, when it’s expected to
• Ability to operate and test the workload through its total lifecycle

The Goal
Design cloud architectures for reliability, to meet business expectations

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Reliability Pillar
Key Topics!

• Distributed systems design

• Recovery planning
• Adapting to changing requirements

EXAM TIP!
Systems fail – how do you design them with this in mind? Look for
questions about designing for failure and recovery.

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Performance Efficiency Pillar

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Performance Efficiency Pillar
Use cloud resources efficiently to meet business requirements.

What it is
• Design architecture to efficiently deliver sustained performance over time.
• Ensure maintenance of efficiency levels as demand changes, and technologies evolve.

The Goal
Design performant cloud architecture, which operates efficiently.

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Performance Efficiency
Key Topics!
• Selecting resource types and sizes optimized for workload requirements
• Monitoring performance of services and workloads
• Maintaining efficiency as business needs and technologies evolve

EXAM TIP!
Be on the lookout for questions related to establishing and
maintaining performance levels over time!

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Cost Optimization Pillar

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Cost Optimization Pillar
Run systems to deliver business value at the lowest price point

What it is
• Fully utilize all resources
• Achieves an outcome at the lowest possible price point
• … while meeting functional requirements

The Goal
Applying cost optimization techniques across design of workload, and selection,
configuration, and operation of services.

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Cost Optimization
Key Topics!
• Understanding spend over time
• Controlling fund allocation
• Selecting resources of right type and quantity
• Scaling to meet business needs without overspending

EXAM TIP!
Be on the lookout for questions relating to ensuring that AWS
services are selected and scaled to meet requirements without
exceeding budgets.

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Sustainability Pillar

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Sustainability Pillar
Focus on environmental impacts in architectural decisions

What it is
• Consideration of energy consumption
• Energy efficiency of resource usage
• … across all components of a workload.

The Goal
Achieve maximum benefit from resources provisioned while minimizing total resources
required.

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Sustainability
Key Topics!
• Shared responsibility model for Sustainability
• Understanding impact of cloud usage
• Maximizing utilization to minimize required resources (and reduce downstream
impacts)

EXAM TIP!
You’re a steward of the resources used on AWS. Look for questions
testing your understanding of cloud impact, and decreasing your
own footprint through architecture design.

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Disaster Recovery

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Disaster Recovery (DR)
The process of anticipating and addressing technology-related disasters.
Any event that prevents a workload or system from fulfilling its business objectives in its primary
deployed location, such as power outages, natural events, or security issues.

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Multiple Regions for DR
Leverage AWS Regions for disaster recovery with redundant deployments

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AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Scalable, cost-effective application recovery to AWS
Minimizes downtime and data loss with fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based
applications using affordable storage, minimal compute, and point-in-time recovery.

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AWS Backup
Centrally manage and automate data protection
AWS Backup is a cost-effective, fully managed, policy-based service that simplifies data
protection at scale.

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High Availability

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High Availability (HA)
The measure of how available your workloads are to end users
A highly available architecture is designed to minimize bottlenecks, to ensure resources remain
“available” to consumers at all times.

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Availability Zones for HA
Deploy workloads across multiple availability zones
Workloads replicated and scaled across multiple AZs creates highly available architectures by
removing single points of failure.

Incoming Load

AWS Cloud

VPC Elastic Load Balancing

Availability Zone 1 Availability Zone 2

Web App Web App

Auto Scaling group

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Demystify – HA vs DR
Exam concepts focus on proper usage of Availability Zones vs. Regions

AWS Cloud
AWS Cloud

Availability Zone 1 Availability Zone 2 Active Region Standby Region

Web App Web App

Web App Web App

Database Database

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Resiliency

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AWS Cloud Resilience
The capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties.
The ability for an application to resist or recover from disruptions, including those related to
infrastructure, dependent services, misconfigurations, and transient network issues.

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Shared Responsibility Model
(Security)

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AWS Shared Responsibility Model
Must have knowledge for Cloud Professionals

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Management & Governance

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AWS Organizations
Central Governance and Management Across AWS Accounts
Programmatically create new AWS accounts and allocate resources, group accounts to
organize your workflows, apply policies to accounts or groups for governance, and
simplify billing by using a single payment method for all of your accounts

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AWS Trusted Advisor
Reduce costs, improve performance, improve security
Provides recommendations that help you follow AWS best practices

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Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Enables AWS customers to manage access to AWS services and resources
Provides recommendations that help you follow AWS best practices

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Billing & Pricing

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Deploy Globally with Customer Focused Services
Billing & Pricing Domain Focus Areas
• Compare and contrast the various pricing models for AWS
• Recognize the various account structures in relation to AWS billing and pricing
• Identify resources available for billing support
• Identify resources for technology support

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Available AWS Cost Management Services
Know and understand when to use each of the available AWS services

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AWS Budgets
Set Custom Budgets and Receive Alerts
Set custom budgets to track your cost and usage from simple, monthly reminders to
customized budgets by service.

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AWS Cost Explorer
Visualize and Explore Your AWS Costs and Usage
Visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time by creating
custom reports

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AWS Savings Plans
Flexible pricing model that can provide savings of up to 72% on AWS usage
Offers prices on Amazon EC2 instances usage, regardless of instance family, size, OS,
tenancy or AWS Region, and also applies to AWS Fargate usage.

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AWS Pricing Calculator
Configure a cost estimate that fits your unique business needs with AWS
Explore AWS services and create an estimate for the cost of your use cases on AWS

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AWS Support Plans

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AWS Support Plans
Support plans are designed to give you the right mix of tools and access to expertise so
that you can be successful with AWS

EXAM TIP
“While I normally don’t recommend memorizing things… make sure you
really know the differences between each of the support plans!”

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Security

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Principle of Least Privileged
Core component in AWS security best practices

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AWS CloudTrail
Track user activity & API usage
Provides event history of your AWS account activity, including actions taken through the
AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and other AWS services

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Amazon CloudWatch
Observability of your AWS resources and applications on AWS and on-premises
Data and insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance
changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health

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AWS Config
Track resource inventory & changes
Enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources.
Continuously monitors and records your AWS resource configurations and allows you to
automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desired configurations

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AWS Artifact
AWS Compliance Reports and Agreements
Central resource for compliance-related information that matters to you. It provides on-
demand access to AWS’ security and compliance reports and select online agreements

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Amazon Inspector
Analyze Application Security
Automates security vulnerability assessments throughout your development and
deployment pipelines or for static production systems - specifically for EC2

Inspector
Service

Report

Inspector Inspector
Agent Agent

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Amazon GuardDuty
Intelligent Threat Detection to Protect Your AWS Accounts and Workloads
Threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and
unauthorized behavior to protect your accounts, workloads, and S3 data

Access built-in threat detection techniques

developed and optimized for the cloud.

Continuously monitors and analyzes your AWS

account and workload event data found in AWS
CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, and DNS Logs.

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AWS Shield
Managed DDoS protection
Managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards
applications running on AWS

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AWS Secrets Manager
Centrally manage the lifecycle of secrets
AWS Secrets Manager helps you manage, retrieve, and rotate database credentials, API
keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycles.

• Automatically rotate secrets on a schedule, with no

manual intervention.

• Encrypts the protected text of a secret by using AWS

Key Management Service (AWS KMS).

• Improve security posture by removing hard-coded

credentials from application source code.

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Cloud Adoption Framework

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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework
Accelerating your cloud-powered digital business transformation
Leverages AWS experience and best practices to help you digitally transform and
accelerate your business outcomes through innovative use of AWS.

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Other In-scope Services

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AI/Machine Learning Services
Innovate faster, get deeper insights from your data, and lower costs

Amazon SageMaker Amazon Comprehend Amazon Polly Amazon Rekognition Amazon Translate

Amazon Transcribe Amazon Textract Amazon Kendra Amazon Lex

What is Machine Learning? What is Artificial Intelligence?

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Analytics Services
Broad set of services to help derive insights from your data

Amazon Athena Amazon EMR Amazon Redshift

Amazon Managed Amazon Kinesis AWS Glue
Streaming for
Apache Kafka

Amazon OpenSearch Amazon QuickSight

Service
AWS Data Exchange

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