AWS Certs Link to heading

These are the AWS Certs:

• Associate level
  • Solutions Architect - Associate
  • Developer - Associate
  • Sysops Administrator - Associate
  • Data Engineer - Associate
• Professional level
  • Solutions Engineer - Professional
  • Devops Engineer - Professional
• Speciality level
  • Advanced Networking
  • Machine Learning
  • Database
  • SAP

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Link to heading

Services involved:

• ec2, lambda, beanstalk
• s3, ebs, efs, backup
• vpc, route53, alb, cloudfront, transit gateway
• iam, orgs, kms, secrets manager, sso
• cloudwatch, x-ray, cloudtrail, config
• codepipeline, codbuild, codedeploy, codecommit, codeartifact, gh actions/bitbucke
• cloudformation, cdk, tf
• systems manager, eks, fargate
• asg, rds, elasticcache
• costs, budgets, saving plans
• direct connect, vpn gateway, private link, service catalog
• HA, fault tolerance, best practices, automation, monitoring/troubleshooting, performance/scalability,

AWS Solutions Architect Associate Link to heading

Domains to approve: Development, Security, Deployment, and Troubleshooting

Here a spreadsheet to help plan the exam: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TaMdsI8CuOyaBUkG2nWq1EX012KrDV0_RuWOkZfJ8NU/edit?usp=sharing

Here the services involved.

• Compute:
  • EC2, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk
• Storage:
  • S3, DynamoDB, RDS, Elasticache
• Networking:
  • VPC, API Gateway, CloudFront
• Security:
  • IAM, Cognito, KMS, Secrets Manager
• Monitoring and Messaging:
  • CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SQS, SNS, EventBridge
• DevOps and CI/CD:
  • CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy

AI Helpers Link to heading

• https://chatgpt.com/g/g-p-677b550a59b881918f593b1aca7dd6de-aws/project
• https://claude.ai/project/99747a50-4b5b-4b04-8c36-9c4d6898d59a
• https://chat.deepseek.com/a/chat/s/4ae7b7c0-4262-4bac-b6c4-d980ba621381

What to read Link to heading

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/concepts.html

Study tips Link to heading

Cross-resources when studying Link to heading

AWS Resources cross functional:

• IAM: users, roles, policies
  • Instance profile
• CLI: explore iam, ec2
• cloudformation, terraform, pulumi
• cost explorer
• cloudwatch

EC2: Link to heading

• AMIs
  • windows/linux/osx: operating system
• Instances
  • instances types
  • prices
• storage: ebs, snapshots, efs/fsx
  • s3
• network: network interface (ENI, ENA, EFA)
  • VPC
    • SG, VPC (igwy/nat), nacl
    • Bastion Hosts
    • Public vs Private instances
  • Private Link
• Load Balancing
  • ALB, NLB, ELB
• Auto-scaling
• SSM
  • SSH/RDP
  • IAM Role / instance profile, AWSCLI
  • Automatic patches
• Billing and Purchasing for EC2
  • On-demand, Spot instances, RI
• Others
  • Tagging

Pending:

• security: key pairs, remote access, iam roles, encryption?
• IAM: instance profile
• fleets
• compute optimizer
• on top of EC2:
  • ecs, eks, lambdas, beanstalk, lightsail… ?

Yarel: Link to heading

• IaaC
  • User-data
• ASG

Alex Link to heading

• LAB: Resizing a big EBS