AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials — Compute

The AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials is a course and examination designed to help you understand the essentials of AWS.

The course covers an introduction, compute in the cloud, AWS global infrastructure, networking, storage and databases, security, monitoring and analytics, pricing and support, migration and innovation, the cloud journey and finally certification

Introduction to AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials.

The introduction explains the core concept of cloud computing and the way that you need only pay for what you need, when you need it. The ability to scale in times of peak demand, like a sales event is a major advantage of cloud over on premise servers. As demand rises you can spin up new resources to service the demand and then as demand subsides, you can scale back.

AWS view the definition of “Cloud” as the on-demand delivery of IT resources over the internet with Pay-as-you-go pricing.

Using AWS you can request additional resources without prior arrangements. You simply provision what you need as you need it. If you require terabytes of additional storage or a few hundred new virtual servers, AWS has the ability to service that demand instantly, which is not possible if you were running IT infrastructure in house or in…