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
What are Tags?
- Key-value pairs attach to AWS resources
- Contains metadata (data about data)
- Tags can sometimes be inherited
Resource Groups
- Make it easy to group your resources using the tags assigned to them
- You can group resources that share one or more tags
- You can use automation with resource groups
- Resource groups contain information such as:
- Region
- Name
- Employee ID
- Department
- Resource Groups in combination with AWS Systems manager allows you to control and execute automation against entire fleets of EC2 instances, all at the push of a button.
Specific Information That Can Be Contained
- For EC2 – Public and Private IP Addresses
- For ELB – Port Configurations
- For RDS – Database Engine etc
Tag Editor
- Note: New regions may not have the full functionality on the AWS console i,e. They may not be available in the Tag Editor
- Great for finding all your tagged resources and create new tags
- Global service unlike the creation of normal groups on EC2 resources
- You can search via the resource types by the tags on the resources
- The resources will be listed in the search results
- You can create new tags (which will take you into AWS Systems Manager)
- Can create a query based groups using Tag Editor
