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AWS Ultimate Guide: From Beginner to Advanced: Exam Prep for Cloud Practitioner & Solutions Architect Associate | Hands-On Labs, Key Insights, and Diagrams
AWS Ultimate From Beginners to Advanced offers a practical, end-to-end journey for mastering AWS. It combines clear explanations, hands-on labs, diagrams, and chapter review questions to help you progress from fundamentals to production-ready architectures with confidence. Each chapter builds step by step, enabling you to absorb core concepts and apply them effectively in real-world scenarios.
What You’ll LearnCloud Foundations
Availability, reliability, scalability, elasticity, multitenancy, global reach, and deployment models (cloud, hybrid, private)—and why cloud is the future, not a trend.
Cloud Economics & Cost Control
CapEx vs. OpEx, right-sizing, licensing, AWS Budgets, Cost Explorer, Cost & Usage Reports, Pricing Calculator, cost allocation tags, and consolidated billing strategies.
Core AWS Building Blocks
Identity & Access (IAM), compute with EC2 (launching, securing, sizing, and purchasing options), networking with VPC (subnets, routing, NAT, SGs vs. NACLs), and DNS with Route 53.
Storage & Data Management
S3 fundamentals, security and versioning, storage classes and lifecycle policies, EBS/EFS/FSx selection, snapshots, performance tuning, and common data patterns.
Scalability & Resilience
Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB/Gateway LB), TLS/offloading, sticky sessions, draining, Auto Scaling policies, health checks, and multi-AZ design.
Observability & Governance
CloudWatch metrics/alarms/logs, EventBridge, CloudTrail, Config, Health dashboards, and cross-account monitoring patterns.
Databases & Persistence
RDS/Aurora for relational, DynamoDB for NoSQL, ElastiCache for in-memory—HA, backups, read replicas, global tables, and streaming integrations.
Modern Architectures
Serverless with Lambda and API Gateway, containers with ECR/ECS/Fargate/EKS, when to choose each, and how to integrate with load balancers and CI/CD.
Analytics & AI/ML on AWS
Data lakes and ETL with Glue/Lake Formation, Redshift & Athena for analytics, OpenSearch & QuickSight for search/BI; AI services from Rekognition and Textract to SageMaker.
Security & Compliance
Shared Responsibility Model, IAM best practices, encryption with KMS, secrets with Secrets Manager, WAF/Shield/Firewall Manager, GuardDuty/Inspector/Macie/Detective/Security Hub.
Architecture Excellence & Migration
Apply the six pillars of the Well-Architected Framework and use the Well-Architected Tool; plan migrations with AWS CAF, and leverage DMS, DataSync, Snow, Transfer, and MGN.
Resilience & Operations
Backup/DR strategies (RPO/RTO, backup/restore, pilot light, warm standby, multi-site), AWS Backup, and how to choose the right AWS Support plan.
Key FeaturesHands-On Labs for account setup, IAM, EC2, cost controls, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, and more.
Diagrams to visualize architectures and trade-offs.
Chapter Review Questions to reinforce learning and prep for real-world use (and certifications).
Practical Patterns you can apply immediately in production.
What You’ll LearnCloud Foundations
Availability, reliability, scalability, elasticity, multitenancy, global reach, and deployment models (cloud, hybrid, private)—and why cloud is the future, not a trend.
Cloud Economics & Cost Control
CapEx vs. OpEx, right-sizing, licensing, AWS Budgets, Cost Explorer, Cost & Usage Reports, Pricing Calculator, cost allocation tags, and consolidated billing strategies.
Core AWS Building Blocks
Identity & Access (IAM), compute with EC2 (launching, securing, sizing, and purchasing options), networking with VPC (subnets, routing, NAT, SGs vs. NACLs), and DNS with Route 53.
Storage & Data Management
S3 fundamentals, security and versioning, storage classes and lifecycle policies, EBS/EFS/FSx selection, snapshots, performance tuning, and common data patterns.
Scalability & Resilience
Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB/Gateway LB), TLS/offloading, sticky sessions, draining, Auto Scaling policies, health checks, and multi-AZ design.
Observability & Governance
CloudWatch metrics/alarms/logs, EventBridge, CloudTrail, Config, Health dashboards, and cross-account monitoring patterns.
Databases & Persistence
RDS/Aurora for relational, DynamoDB for NoSQL, ElastiCache for in-memory—HA, backups, read replicas, global tables, and streaming integrations.
Modern Architectures
Serverless with Lambda and API Gateway, containers with ECR/ECS/Fargate/EKS, when to choose each, and how to integrate with load balancers and CI/CD.
Analytics & AI/ML on AWS
Data lakes and ETL with Glue/Lake Formation, Redshift & Athena for analytics, OpenSearch & QuickSight for search/BI; AI services from Rekognition and Textract to SageMaker.
Security & Compliance
Shared Responsibility Model, IAM best practices, encryption with KMS, secrets with Secrets Manager, WAF/Shield/Firewall Manager, GuardDuty/Inspector/Macie/Detective/Security Hub.
Architecture Excellence & Migration
Apply the six pillars of the Well-Architected Framework and use the Well-Architected Tool; plan migrations with AWS CAF, and leverage DMS, DataSync, Snow, Transfer, and MGN.
Resilience & Operations
Backup/DR strategies (RPO/RTO, backup/restore, pilot light, warm standby, multi-site), AWS Backup, and how to choose the right AWS Support plan.
Key FeaturesHands-On Labs for account setup, IAM, EC2, cost controls, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, and more.
Diagrams to visualize architectures and trade-offs.
Chapter Review Questions to reinforce learning and prep for real-world use (and certifications).
Practical Patterns you can apply immediately in production.
583 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 16, 2025
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