Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview

Module overview

Topics
• Introduction to cloud computing
• Advantages of cloud computing
• Introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

Knowledge check

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Module objectives

After completing this module, you should be able to:

• Define different types of cloud computing models
• Describe six advantages of cloud computing
• Recognize the main AWS service categories and core services
• Review the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

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Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview

Section 1: Introduction to cloud computing

What is cloud computing?

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Cloud computing defined

Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of compute power, database,

storage, applications, and other IT resources via the internet with pay-as-
you-go pricing.

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Infrastructure as software

Cloud computing enables you to stop thinking of your infrastructure as

hardware, and instead think of (and use) it as software.

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Traditional computing model

• Infrastructure as hardware
• Hardware solutions:
• Require space, staff, physical security,
planning, capital expenditure
• Have a long hardware procurement
cycle
• Require you to provision capacity by
guessing theoretical maximum peaks

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Cloud computing model

• Infrastructure as software
• Software solutions:
• Are flexible
• Can change more quickly, easily, and
cost-effectively than hardware
solutions
• Eliminate the undifferentiated heavy-
lifting tasks

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Cloud service models

IaaS PaaS SaaS

(infrastructure as a (platform as a (software as a
service) service) service)

More control Less control

over IT resources over IT resources

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Cloud computing deployment models

Cloud Hybrid On-premises

(private cloud)

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Similarities between AWS and traditional IT

Traditional, on-premises IT space AWS

Security
Security groups
Firewalls ACLs Administrators Network ACLs IAM

Networking
Router Network pipeline Switch Elastic Load Balancing Amazon VPC

On-premises Compute
servers Amazon EC2
AMI
instances

Storage and
DAS SAN NAS RDBMS
database Amazon EBS Amazon Amazon Amazon RDS
EFS S3

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 • Cloud computing is the on-demand
Section 1 key delivery of IT resources via the internet
with pay-as-you-go pricing.
takeaways • Cloud computing enables you to think of
(and use) your infrastructure as software.
• There are three cloud service models: IaaS,
PaaS, and SaaS.
• There are three cloud deployment models:
cloud, hybrid, and on-premises or private
cloud.
• Almost anything you can implement with
traditional IT can also be implemented as
an AWS cloud computing service.

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Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview

Section 2: Advantages of cloud computing

Trade capital expense for variable expense

Capital

Data center investment Pay only for the amount

based on forecast you consume

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Massive economies of scale
Because of aggregate usage from all customers, AWS can achieve
higher economies of scale and pass savings on to customers.

AWS Cloud

Economies of scale Savings

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Stop guessing capacity

Overestimated Underestimated Scaling on demand

server capacity server capacity

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Increase speed and agility

Launch

Weeks between wanting Minutes between wanting

resources and having resources resources and having resources

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Stop spending money on
running and maintaining data centers

Investment

Running data centers Business and customers

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Go global in minutes

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 • Trade capital expense for variable
Section 2 key expense
takeaways • Benefit from massive economies of
scale
• Stop guessing capacity
• Increase speed and agility
• Stop spending money on running
and maintaining data centers
• Go global in minutes

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Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview
Section 3: Introduction to Amazon Web Services
(AWS)
What are web services?

A web service is any piece of software that makes itself available over the
internet and uses a standardized format—such as Extensible Markup
Language (XML) or JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)—for the request and
the response of an application programming interface (API) interaction.

Request message

Internet
Response message
Client Web service

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What is AWS?

• AWS is a secure cloud platform that offers a broad set of global cloud-
based products.
• AWS provides you with on-demand access to compute, storage, network,
database, and other IT resources and management tools.
• AWS offers flexibility.
• You pay only for the individual services you need, for as long as you use
them.
• AWS services work together like building blocks.

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Categories of AWS services

Analytics Application AR and VR Blockchain Business Compute

Integration Applications

Cost Customer Database Developer Tools End User Game Tech

Management Engagement Computing

Internet Machine Management and Media Services Migration and Mobile

of Things Learning Governance Transfer

Networking and Robotics Satellite Security, Identity, and Storage

Content Delivery Compliance
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Simple solution example

Networking Compute Database Storage

AWS Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Amazon
DynamoDB
Users Amazon S3

Amazon EC2

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 Choosing a service
The service you select depends on your business goals and technology
requirements.
Amazon
VMware Cloud EC2 AWS
on AWS Lambda

Amazon ECS ? AWS Elastic

Beanstalk

Amazon EKS

Amazon
AWS Fargate
AWS Outposts Lightsail
AWS Batch
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 Services covered in this course
Compute services – Storage services – Management and
• Amazon EC2 • Amazon S3 Governance services –
• AWS Lambda • Amazon S3 Glacier • AWS Trusted Advisor
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk • Amazon EFS • AWS CloudWatch
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling • Amazon EBS • AWS CloudTrail
• Amazon ECS • AWS Well-Architected Tool
• Amazon EKS Database services – • AWS Auto Scaling
• Amazon ECR • Amazon RDS • AWS Command Line Interface
• AWS Fargate • Amazon DynamoDB • AWS Config
• Amazon Redshift • AWS Management Console
• Amazon Aurora • AWS Organizations
Security, Identity, and
Compliance services – Networking and Content AWS Cost Management
• AWS IAM Delivery services – services –
• Amazon Cognito • Amazon VPC • AWS Cost & Usage
• AWS Shield • Amazon Route 53 Report
• AWS Artifact • Amazon CloudFront • AWS Budgets
• AWS KMS • Elastic Load Balancing • AWS Cost Explorer
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Three ways to interact with AWS

AWS Management Console

Easy-to-use graphical interface

Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

Access to services by discrete commands or scripts

Software Development Kits (SDKs)

Access services directly from your code (such as Java, Python, and others)

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 • AWS is a secure cloud platform that offers
Section 3 key a broad set of global cloud-based products
takeaways called services that are designed to work
together.
• There are many categories of AWS
services, and each category has many
services to choose from.
• Choose a service based on your business
goals and technology requirements.
• There are three ways to interact with AWS
services.

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Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview
Section 4: Moving to the AWS Cloud – The AWS Cloud
Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)
AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

• AWS CAF provides guidance and

best practices to help
organizations build a
comprehensive approach to cloud
computing across the organization
and throughout the IT lifecycle to
accelerate successful cloud
AWS CAF perspectives adoption.
• AWS CAF is organized into six
perspectives.
• Perspectives consist of sets of
capabilities.
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Six core perspectives

Focus on business Focus on technical

capabilities capabilities

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Business perspective

We must ensure that IT is aligned with business

needs, and that IT investments can be traced to
demonstrable business results.
IT finance

IT strategy

Benefits realization

Business risk management

Business managers, finance
Business perspective capabilities managers, budget owners,
and strategy stakeholders
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People perspective

We must prioritize training, staffing,

and organizational changes to build
an agile organization.
Resource management

Incentive management

Career management

Training management

Organizational change
management
Human resources, staffing,
and people managers
People perspective capabilities

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Governance perspective

We must ensure that skills and processes align IT strategy and

goals with business strategy and goals so the organization can
maximize the business value of its IT investment and minimize
Portfolio management business risks.

Program and
project management

Business performance
measurement

License management

Governance perspective capabilities

CIO, program managers, enterprise
architects, business analysts, and
portfolio managers
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Platform perspective

We must understand and communicate the nature

of IT systems and their relationships. We must be
Compute provisioning
able to describe the architecture of the target state
environment in detail.
Network provisioning

Storage provisioning

Database provisioning

Systems and solution

architecture
CTO, IT managers, and
Application development solutions architects
Platform perspective capabilities
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Security perspective

We must ensure that the organization meets its

security objectives.
Identity and access
management

Detective control

Infrastructure security

Data protection

CISO, IT security managers,

Incident response and IT security analysts

Security perspective capabilities

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Operations perspective

We align with and support the operations of the

Service monitoring
business, and define how day-to-day, quarter-to-
quarter, and year-to-year business will be
Application performance
monitoring
conducted.
Resource inventory
management
Release management/
change management

Reporting and analytics

Business continuity/
Disaster recovery
IT operations managers and
IT support managers
IT service catalog

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 • Cloud adoption is not instantaneous for
Section 4 key most organizations and requires a
takeaways thoughtful, deliberate strategy and
alignment across the whole organization.
• The AWS CAF was created to help
organizations develop efficient and
effective plans for their cloud adoption
journey.
• The AWS CAF organizes guidance into six
areas of focus, called perspectives.
• Perspectives consist of sets of business or
technology capabilities that are the
responsibility of key stakeholders.

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Module 1: Cloud Concepts Overview

Module wrap-up
Module summary

In summary, in this module you learned how to:

• Define different types of cloud computing models
• Describe six advantages of cloud computing
• Recognize the main AWS service categories and core services
• Review the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework

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Complete the knowledge check

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Sample exam question

Why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with varying
compute workloads?

A. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) costs are billed on a monthly basis.
B. Customers retain full administrative access to their Amazon EC2 instances.
C. Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on-demand when needed.
D. Customers can permanently run enough instances to handle peak workloads.

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Additional resources

• What is AWS? YouTube video

• Cloud computing with AWS website
• Overview of Amazon Web Services whitepaper
• An Overview of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework whitepaper
• 6 Strategies for Migrating Applications to the Cloud AWS Cloud Enterprise
Strategy blog post

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