AWS Pricing, Support & Cost Optimization – Links:

• AWS Services Pricing
• AWS Pricing – know for exams
• AWS Pricing – know for exams
• AWS Premium Support Plans
• AWS Premium Support Pricing
• AWS Premium Support FAQs
• AWS Personal Health Dashboard
• AWS Cost Optimization
• AWS Billing & Cost Optimization – know for exams
• AWS Billing & Cost Optimization – know for exams
• AWS Organizations – know for exams
AWS Cost Calculators
.   1. Simple Monthly Calculator
.   2. TCO Calculator
• AWS Professional Services
• AWS Marketplace

AWS Glossary & Documentation – Links:
.   • User Guides, Developer Guides, API References, Tutorials

• AWS Glossary
• AWS Documentation – Home
• AWS User Guides
• AWS Tutorials – Free
• AWS SDKs
• AWS Knowledge Center – FAQs

How to Learn – Helpful Links
• Learnings From Learning How to Learn
• Here’s How to Learn Anything
• 6 Brain Hacks to Learn Anything Faster

This “Link Dashboard” style website is provided to assist anyone who feels they too are standing at the Cloud Computing Crossroads.

BB’s Journey

1. So… First I took a best selling Udemy.com class AWS Solutions Architect – Associate by Ryan Kroonenburg.

2. Then after reading through the great class discussion forums on both Ryan Kroonenburg’s Udemy class and his cloud instruction course website, ACloud.Guru, I discovered additional great websites containing painstakingly crafted Cheat Sheets from Jon Bonso at TutorialsDojo.com and Jayendra Patil at JayendraPatil.com.

I can not say enough good about the great contributions both Jayendra Patil and Jon Bonso have provided for people working on their AWS Certifications.  Please give most of the credit for my website to them.

3. AWSProCert.com began life as a personal WordPress website running on a laptop VM MAMP Stack to consolidate my Udemy class notes, cheat sheets from JP & JB, plus numerous random Docs.AWS.Amazon.com web wanderings into an ordered and coherent collection of links and downloads in order to efficiently prepare me for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C01) Exam.

4. So… Inspired by the aforementioned cheat sheet websites and the giving spirit of the many technologists whose work has assisted and inspired me over the years, I decided to make my personal website publicly available to provide potential help to anyone else feeling they too are Standing at the Cloud Computing Crossroads.

Good Luck in your Cloud Endeavors.

B.B.

• I also highly recommend Jon Bonso’s AWS Certified Solutions Architect Practice Exams for Associate and Professional levels and his AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate Practice Exams all on Udemy.

• And please consider purchasing the highly recommended DolfinEd’s AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Practice Exams through the advertisement in the right-hand column of Jayendra Patil’s website, 2nd advert down.

“Buy lotsa Practice Exams – Ya gunna wanna take lotsa Practice Exams.”  Really…  Seriously…

Amazon Compute Services

• Compute – Cheat Sheet
• Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
• EC2 Storage
.  • EC2 Instance Store Storage
.  • Elastic Block Store Storage (EBS)
.  • EBS Volume Types
.  • Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
.  • Elastic File Storage (EFS)
• Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) – Overview & Components
• EC2 Best Practices
• EC2 Instance Types – Overview
• EC2 – Placement Groups (performance)
• EBS Performance Tips
• EC2 Instance Purchase Options
• EC2 Instance Lifecycle – Overview
• EC2 Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
• EBS Snapshot (Backup)
• EC2 VM Import & Export
• EC2 Network – Features
• EC2 Network – Enhanced Networking
• EC2 Instance Automated Startup – Metadata & Userdata
• EC2 Security
• EC2 Monitoring
• EC2 – Troubleshooting Connecting to an Instance
• Batch
• Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
• Elastic Container Service (ECS)
• EC2 Container Service (ECS)
• Elastic Beanstalk
• Elastic Beanstalk
• Lambda
• Lambda
• Lambda – Event Source

 Amazon Storage Services

• Storage & Content Delivery – Cheat Sheet
• Simple Storage Service (S3)
• Simple Storage Service (S3) – Overview & Components
• S3 Best Practices
• S3 Data Consistency Model
• S3 Subresources
• S3 Storage Classes
• S3 Object Versioning
• S3 Object Lifecycle Management
• S3 Permissions
• S3 Data Protection
• Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
• Elastic File Storage (EFS)
• Glacier
• Glacier
• Storage Gateway
• Storage Gateway
• Storage Options – Overview
• Storage Options – S3 & Glacier
• Storage Options – EBS & Instance Store
• Storage Options – RDS, DynamoDB & Database on EC2
• Storage Options – SQS & Redshift
• Storage Options – CloudFront & ElastiCache
• Storage Options – Storage Gateway – Import & Export

 Amazon Networking & Content Delivery Services

• Amazon VPC Overview – 2018 eBook
• Networking & Content Delivery – Cheat Sheet
• CloudFront – Overview (CDN)
• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) – Overview & Components
• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
• VPC Endpoints
• Bastion Host (Jump Box)
• VPC Peering
• VPC VPN – CloudHub Connections
• VPC NAT Instance vs NAT Gateway
• VPC VPN – CloudHub Connections
• Route 53
• Route 53 – Overview
• Route 53 – Routing Policy
• API Gateway
• API Gateway
• CloudFront
• Direct Connect
• Direct Connect
• Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
• ELB – Application Load Balancer
• ELB – Network Load Balancer
• Classic Load Balancer vs Application Load Balancer
• Directory Services – Microsoft Active Directory

 Amazon Database Services

• Database – Cheat Sheet
• Relational Database Service (RDS)
• Relational Database Service (RDS)
• RDS Replication – Multi-AZ & Read Replica
• RDS Storage
• RDS Database Snapshot, Backup & Restore
• RDS Security
• RDS Database Maintenance & Upgrades
• RDS Monitoring & Notification
• Aurora
• DynamoDB
• DynamoDB
• DynamoDB – Secondary Indexes
• ElastiCache
• ElastiCache
• Redshift
• Redshift

 Amazon Analytic Services

• Analytics – Cheat Sheet
• Athena
• CloudSearch
• Data Pipeline
• Data Pipeline
• Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
• Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
• Kinesis
• Kinesis
• Redshift
• Database Automated Backups
• Elasticsearch
• CloudSearch

 Amazon Security, Identity & Compliance Services

• Security, Identity & Compliance – Cheat Sheet
• Security – Overview
• Identity & Access Management (IAM)
• Identity Access Management (IAM)
• IAM – Best Practices
• IAM Role
• IAM Policy & Permissions
• IAM Role – Identity Providers and Federation
• IAM Roles vs Resource Based Policies
• Intrusion Detection & Prevention System IDS-IPS
• Web Application Firewall (WAF)
• Web Application Firewall (WAF)
• Firewall Manager
• Shield
• CloudHSM
• CloudTrail
• Inspector
• Key Management Service (KMS)
• Key Management Service (KMS)
• Encrypting Data at Rest
• DDoS Resiliency – Best Practices

Amazon Application Integration Services

• Application Integration – Cheat Sheet
• Simple Queue Service (SQS)
• Simple Queue Service (SQS)
• Simple Notification Service (SNS)
• Simple Notification Service (SNS)
• Simple Email Service (SES)
• Simple WorkFlow (SWF)
• Simple WorkFlow (SWF)

Amazon Business Applications & Software Services

• Business Applications on AWS – Overview
• Oracle Database & Applications on AWS
• Microsoft Workloads on AWS
• SAP on AWS

 Amazon Migration & Transfer Services

• Migration & Transfer – Overview
• Cloud Migration Services – Overview
• Snowball
• Snowball
• Snowball Edge
• Snowball Edge
• Snowmobile
• Snowmobile
• Import & Export Disk (deprecated service)
• Migration Hub
• Application Discovery Service
• Database Migration Service
• Server Migration Service
• DataSync
• Transfer for SFTP

Amazon Media Services

• Kinesis
• Elastic Transcoder

Desktop & Application Streaming Services

• Desktop & App Streaming – Overview
• Desktop & App Streaming – Blog
• WorkSpaces
• WorkSpaces
• WorkSpaces
• Amazon AppStream 2.0

AWS Management & Governance Services

• AWS Management & Governance – Overview
• AWS Management Tools – Cheat Sheet
• AWS CloudWatch
• AWS CloudWatch – Overview
• AWS CloudWatch – Monitoring Supported AWS Services
• AWS CloudFormation
• AWS CloudFormation
• AWS Control Tower
• Auto Scaling
• Auto Scaling
• Auto Scaling Troubleshooting
• Auto Scaling & Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
• Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
• ELB – Monitoring
• ELB – Application Load Balancer
• ELB – Network Load Balancer
• ELB – Classic Load Balancer vs Application Load Balancer
• AWS Systems Manager
• AWS CloudTrail
• AWS CloudTrail
• AWS Config
• AWS Config
• AWS OpsWorks
• AWS OpsWorks
• AWS Trusted Advisor
• AWS Trusted Advisor
• AWS Personal Health Dashboard
• AWS Console – Mobile Application
• AWS License Manager
• AWS Well-Architected Tool

AWS Cost Management Services

• Cost Management
• Cost Explorer
• Budgets
• Reserved Instance Reporting
• Pricing

Amazon Developer Tool Services

“The following is good to know at a very high-level, but is not tested for on the Solutions Architect – Associate exam.”

• AWS Developer Tools
• AWS Cloud9
• AWS CodeStar
• AWS X-Ray
• AWS CodeCommit
• AWS CodePipeline
• AWS CodeBuild
• AWS CodeDeploy

Most AWS Managed Services are REGIONAL
1. Resource Identifiers:  Instance ID, AMI ID, EBS Volume ID, etc
2. Auto Scaling
3. S3 Data
4. Storage Gateway
5. EBS Snapshot
6. EC2’s Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
7. DynamoDB
8. VPC
.   • Security groups
.   • VPC Endpoints
.   • VPC Peering
.   • Elastic IP Address (EIA)

A Few Services are AZ level
1. Subnet
2. EC2 Instances
.   • note that an EC2 Instance Instance ID is tied to the REGION
.   • EBS Volumes
.   • EC2 Cluster Placement Groups

• AWS Managed Services with OS Root Privilege
. 1. Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)
. 2. Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
. 3. Elastic BeanStalk
. 4. OpsWorks

• AWS Does NOT Provide Root Privileges for MANAGED SERVICES like
.  • RDS
.  • DynamoDB
.  • S3
.  • Glacier

RDS with OS Root Privilege
• If you need OS Root Privileges OR your design requires Proprietary RDBMS Features not enabled by RDS
• Then you must use the Non-managed Database Service approach to implementing AWS by installing your chosen RDBMS binaries (e.g. Oracle, MS SQL Server) yourself on an EC2 Compute Instance
.  • Use Case Example:   your application workload’s Throughput, Latency, High Availability & Fault Tolerance specifications specifically requires a 5-node Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) Database in a Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) configuration with an Oracle Active DataGuard Standby Database

Placement Groups
You can launch or start instances in a placement group, which determines how instances are placed on underlying hardware. When you create a placement group, you specify one of the following strategies for the group:

1. Cluster – clusters instances into a low-latency group in a single Availability Zone
2. Partition – spreads instances across logical partitions, ensuring that instances in one partition do not share underlying hardware with instances in other partitions
3. Spread – spreads instances across underlying hardware

There is no charge for creating a placement group.

AWS Training & Certification Links:

• AWS Training
• AWS Learning Library
• AWS Learning Paths
• AWS Training (free & paid)
• AWS Training – Course Descriptions
• AWS Certification FAQs
• AWS Free Tier – Info
• AWS Free Tier – Sign Up