In this short series, I outline the notes that I took while preparing for the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam.
These are my personal notes that I have made while working through the A Cloud Guru exam practitioner course. They are in no way official notes from AWS.
I would advise you that if you do use my notes to help you revise for this exam, that you use them as a supplement to the most recent information in the White Papers, Exam Guide and go over your knowledge with practice exam papers.
Previous notes within this blog series:
- Cloud Computing and the Topics To Cover
- AWS Global Infrastructure
- AWS Cost Management
- Identity Access Management (IAM)
- Simple Storage Service (S3)
- CloudFront
- Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
- Roles
- Load Balancers
- Databases
- Domain Name System
- Elastic Beanstalk
- CloudFormation
- Architecting for the Cloud Best Practices: Part 1
- Architecting for the Cloud Best Practices: Part 2
- Global and On Premises AWS Services
- CloudWatch 101
- Systems Manager
- How AWS Pricing Works Whitepaper
- EC2 Pricing
- AWS Budgets vs AWS Cost Explorer
- AWS Support Plans
- Tagging and Resource Groups
- AWS Organizations & Consolidated Billing
- AWS Calculators
- Compliance On AWS
- AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) & AWS Shield
- AWS Inspector vs AWS Trusted Advisor vs CloudTrail
- CloudWatch vs AWS Config
Athena vs Macie
What is Athena?
- An interactive query service which enables your to analyse and query data located in S3 using standard SQL
- Serverless, nothing to provision, pay per query/per TB scanned
- No need to set up complex Extract/Transform/Load (ETL)
- Works directly with data stored in S3
- Can be used to query logs files stored in S3
- Generate business reports on data stored in S3
- Analyse AWS cost and usage reports
- Run queries on click-stream data
What is PII? (Personally Identifiable Information)
- Personal data used to establish an individual’s identity
- This data could be exploited by criminals, used in identity theft and financial fraud
- E.g. home address, passport number etc
What is Macie?
- Security service which uses Machine Learning and NLP to discover, classify and protect sensitive data stored in S3
- Uses AI to recognise if your S3 objects contain sensitive data such as PII
- Dashboards, reporting and alerts
- Works directly with data stored in S3
- Can also analyze CloudTrail logs
- Great for PCI-DSS and preventing ID theft
