Welcome to AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials. If you’re new to the cloud, whether you’re in a technical or non-technical role such as finance, legal, sales, or marketing, this course will provide you with an understanding of fundamental AWS Cloud concepts to help you gain confidence to contribute to your organization’s cloud initiatives. This course is also the starting point to prepare for your AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification whenever it’s convenient for you.

After you complete the course, you’ll understand the benefits of the AWS Cloud and the basics of its global infrastructure. You’ll be able to describe and provide an example of the core AWS services, including compute, network, databases, and storage. For the finance-minded, you’ll be able to articulate the financial benefits of the AWS Cloud, define core billing and pricing models, and learn how to use pricing tools to make cost-effective choices for AWS services.

• Define what the cloud is and how it works
• Differentiate between cloud computing and deployment models
• Describe the AWS Cloud value proposition
• Describe the basic global infrastructure of the cloud
• Compare the different methods of interacting with AWS
• Describe and differentiate between AWS service domains
• Given a scenario, identify an appropriate solution using AWS Cloud services
• Describe the Well-Architected Framework
• Describe basic AWS Cloud architectural principles
• Explain the Shared Responsibility model
• Describe security services with the AWS cloud
• Define the billing, account management, and pricing models for the AWS platform
• Identify future services and developments built on the cloud

• Sales
• Legal
• Marketing
• Business analysts
• Project managers
• AWS Academy students
• Other IT-related professionals

The certification is intended for candidates who may be:

• From a non-IT background and exploring a career in the AWS Cloud
• In sales/marketing/business analyst roles looking to communicate more effectively with stakeholders and customers about the AWS Cloud
• In on-premises IT or cloud roles, but new to AWS Cloud, and need a primer before diving into role-based AWS Certification(s)

• Introduction to Amazon Web Services
• Compute in the Cloud
• Global Infrastructure and Reliability
• Networking
• Storage and Databases
• Security
• Monitoring and Analytics
• Pricing and Support
• Migration and Innovation
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Basics

• General IT technical knowledge
• General IT business knowledge