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Lesson 3 of 412 min

AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud Practitioner mindset

Regions, AZs, VPCs, EC2/S3/RDS (Remote Desktop Services)/IAM (Identity and Access Management). Shared responsibility.

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Region = geographic area. AZ (Availability Zone) = isolated datacenter inside a region. Design across AZs for HA (High Availability).

Core services: EC2 (VMs), S3 (object storage), RDS (managed databases), IAM (identity).

Diagram · Cloud service models
SaaSyou use the appPaaSyou deploy codeIaaSyou run the OSOn-premyou own everythingmore managed for you ←—————→ more control for you

Shared responsibility: AWS secures the cloud; you secure your stuff in the cloud.

Key takeaways

Next: Identity architecture →