AWS Fundamentals
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mehmet sat
- A Region is a physical location in the world that consists of two or more Availability Zones(AZs)
- An AZ is one or more discrete data centers — each with redundant power, networking, and connectivity — housed in separate facilities
- Edge Locations are endpoints for AWS that are used for caching content. Typically, this consists of CloudFront, Amazon’s Content Delivery Network. Edge locations is more than Availability Zones
- Shared Responsibility Model: Ask this question for the answer if you are responsible or not
- Can you do this yourself in the AWS Management Console?
- If Yes, you are likely responsible.
- Security Groups, IAM Users, patching EC2 operating systems, patching databases running on EC2, etc. (patching means fixing bugs improving system performance)
- If Not, AWS is likely responsible.
- Management of Data Centers, security cameras, cabling, patching RDS operating systems, etc.
- Encryption is a shared responsibility
- Key Services to know for the Exam
- Compute: EC2, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk
- Storage: S3, EBS, EFS, FSx, Storage Gateway
- Databases: RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift
- Networking: VPCs, Direct Connect, Route 53, API Gateway, AWS Global Accelerator
- Before the exam read the white-paper Well-Architected Framework