Cloud Concepts — AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Official references for this objective

• Amazon Web Services — Moving from on premises to the cloud with AWS delivers significant cost savings, report finds | AWS Insights

  by moving to AWS, Snap gained access to data centers around the world, allowing its users to more seamlessly communicate with reduced lag

• Amazon Web Services — AWS Cloud Adoption Framework overview - Public Sector Cloud Transformation

  the Envision phase helps you create a foundation for your cloud strategy that returns ongoing measurable value to your organization, connecting your business goals and

• Amazon Web Services — What is Cloud Computing? - Cloud Computing Services, Benefits, and Types - AWS

  Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources over the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.

• Amazon Web Services — Definitions - AWS Well-Architected Framework

  The reliability pillar encompasses the ability of a workload to perform its intended function correctly and consistently when it’s expected to.

• Amazon Web Services — Elasticity - AWS Well-Architected Framework

  Some services do this as part of their service: Amazon S3 , Amazon SQS , Amazon SNS , Amazon SES , Amazon Aurora , etc.

• Amazon Web Services — Global Infrastructure Regions & AZs

  you can easily run highly-demanding applications that require single-digit millisecond latencies to your end-users such as media & entertainment content creation, real-time gaming

• Amazon Web Services — Learn Cloud Economics - Value of Cloud - Cloud ROI Framework - AWS

  The Cloud Value Framework helps customers understand the business value of moving to and building on AWS.

• Amazon Web Services — Points of presence - AWS Fault Isolation Boundaries

  Each PoP is isolated from the others, which means a failure affecting a single PoP or metropolitan area does not impact the rest of the

• Amazon Web Services — AWS Cloud Adoption Framework

  AWS CAF groups its capabilities in six perspectives: Business, People, Governance, Platform, Security, and Operations.

• Amazon Web Services — Availability Zones - AWS Fault Isolation Boundaries

  Common points of failure, like generators and cooling equipment, are not shared across Availability Zones and are designed to be supplied by different power substations.

• Amazon Web Services — Business Value on AWS - Cloud Value Proposition | AWS Executive Insights

  The average annual cost of downtime for Fortune 1000 companies is $1.25–$2.5 billion per year.