📚 Knowledge of:

● AWS Cloud Value Proposition:
Leverage AWS's flexible, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions.

💡 Skills in:

● Understanding Economies of Scale:
For example, how AWS offers cost savings through scalable resources.

● Understanding Global Infrastructure:
For example, faster deployment and global reach through AWS’s global data centers.

● Understanding High Availability, Elasticity, and Agility:
For example, AWS’s ability to handle variable workloads, scale elastically, and quickly adapt to business changes.

📚 Knowledge of:

AWS Well-Architected Framework:
Gain insights into best practices for building secure, efficient, and resilient cloud architectures.

💡 Skills in:

● Understanding the Pillars of the Well-Architected Framework:
For example, operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability. ● Identifying Differences Between the Pillars: Learn how each pillar contributes uniquely to building and maintaining a strong cloud infrastructure.

📚 Knowledge of:

● Cloud Adoption Strategies
Explore methods for transitioning to the cloud effectively.

● Resources for Cloud Migration
Leverage tools and support systems for a smooth cloud migration journey.

💡 Skills in:

● Understanding the Benefits of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF):
For example, reduced business risk, improved environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance, increased revenue, and enhanced operational efficiency.

📚 Knowledge of:

● Aspects of Cloud Economics
Understand the economic principles governing cloud computing.

● Cost Savings of Moving to the Cloud
Learn how cloud migration can lead to significant cost reductions.

💡 Skills in:

● Understanding Fixed vs. Variable Costs
Analyze the differences and impacts of these cost structures.

● Understanding On-Premises Environment Costs
Identify the expenses associated with maintaining physical infrastructure.

● Understanding Licensing Strategies:
For example, Bring Your Own License (BYOL) compared to included licenses.

● Understanding Rightsizing
Optimize resource allocation based on actual needs.

● Identifying Benefits of Automation:
For example, using AWS CloudFormation for provisioning and configuration management.

● Identifying Managed AWS Services:
For example, Amazon RDS, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and Amazon DynamoDB.

📚 Knowledge of:

● AWS Shared Responsibility Model

💡 Skills in:

● Recognizing the Components of the AWS Shared Responsibility Model

● Describing the Customer’s Responsibilities on AWS

● Describing AWS Responsibilities

● Describing Responsibilities That the Customer and AWS Share

● Describing How AWS Responsibilities and Customer Responsibilities Can Shift, Depending on the Service Used (for example, Amazon RDS, AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2)

📚 Knowledge and Skills:

AWS Compliance and Governance Concepts:

● Benefits of cloud security (for example, encryption).

● Where to capture and locate logs that are associated with cloud security.

💡 Skills in:

● Identifying where to find AWS compliance information (for example, AWS Artifact).

● Understanding compliance needs among geographic locations or industries (for example, AWS Compliance).

● Describing how customers secure resources on AWS (for example, Amazon Inspector, AWS Security Hub, Amazon Guard Duty, AWS Shield).

● Identifying different encryption options (for example, encryption in transit, encryption at rest).

● Recognizing services that aid in governance and compliance (for example, monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch; auditing with AWS CloudTrail, AWS Audit Manager, and AWS Config; reporting with access reports).

● Recognizing compliance requirements that vary among AWS services.

📚 Knowledge and Skills:

● Identity and access management (for example, AWS Identity and Access Management [IAM])

● Importance of protecting the AWS root user account

● The principle of the least privilege ● AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS Single Sign-On)

💡 Skills in:

● Understanding access keys, password policies, and credential storage (for example, AWS Secrets

Manager, AWS Systems Manager)

● Identifying authentication methods in AWS (for example, multifactor authentication [MFA], IAM

Identity Center, cross-account IAM roles)

● Defining groups, users, custom policies, and managed policies in compliance with the principle

of the least privilege

● Identifying tasks that only the account root user can perform

● Understanding which methods can achieve root user protection

● Understanding the types of identity management (for example, federated)

📚 Knowledge and Skills:

● Security capabilities that AWS provides

● Security-related documentation that AWS provides

💡 Skills in:

● Describing AWS security features and services (for example, security groups, network ACLs,

AWS WAF)

● Understanding that third-party security products are available from AWS Marketplace

● Identifying where AWS security information is available (for example, AWS

● Knowledge Center, AWS Security Center, AWS Security Blog)

● Understanding the use of AWS services for identifying security issues (for example, AWS

Trusted Advisor)

📚 Knowledge and Skills:

● Different ways of provisioning and operating in the AWS Cloud

● Different ways to access AWS services

● Types of cloud deployment models

● Connectivity options

💡 Skills in:

● Deciding between options such as programmatic access (for example, APIs, SDKs, CLI), the AWS Management Console, and infrastructure as code (IaC)

● Evaluating requirements to determine whether to use one-time operations or repeatable processes

● Identifying different deployment models (for example, cloud, hybrid, on-premises)

● Identifying connectivity options (for example, AWS VPN, AWS Direct Connect, public internet) 

📚 Knowledge and Skills:

● AWS Regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations

● High availability

● Use of multiple Regions

● Benefits of edge locations

● AWS Wavelength Zones and AWS Local Zones

💡 Skills in:

● Describing relationships among Regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations

● Describing how to achieve high availability by using multiple Availability Zones

● Recognizing that Availability Zones do not share single points of failure

● Describing when to use multiple Regions (for example, disaster recovery, business continuity, low latency for end users, data sovereignty)

● Describing at a high level the benefits of edge locations (for example, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator)

📚 Knowledge and Skills:

● AWS compute services

💡 Skills in:

● Recognizing the appropriate use of different EC2 instance types (for example, compute optimized, storage optimized)

● Recognizing the appropriate use of different container options (for example, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS)

● Recognizing the appropriate use of different serverless computing options (for example, AWS Fargate, Lambda)

● Recognizing that auto-scaling provides elasticity

● Identifying the purposes of load balancers

📚 Knowledge and Skills:

● AWS database services

● Database migration

💡 Skills in:

● Deciding when to use EC2-hosted databases or AWS-managed databases

● Identifying relational databases (for example, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora)

● Identifying NoSQL databases (for example, DynamoDB)

● Identifying memory-based databases

● Identifying database migration tools (for example AWS Database Migration Service [AWS DMS], AWS Schema Conversion Tool [AWS SCT])

📚 Knowledge and Skills:

● AWS network services

💡 Skills in:

● Understanding security in a VPC (for example, network ACLs, security groups)

● Understanding the purpose of Amazon Route 53

● Identifying edge services (for example, CloudFront, Global Accelerator)

● Identifying network connectivity options to AWS (for example AWS VPN, Direct Connect)

📚 Knowledge and Skills:

● Compute purchasing options (for example, On-Demand Instances, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, Savings Plans, Dedicated Hosts, Dedicated Instances, Capacity Reservations)

● Data transfer charges

● Storage options and tiers

💡 Skills in:

● Identifying and comparing when to use various compute purchasing options

● Describing Reserved Instance Flexibility

● Describing Reserved Instance Behavior in AWS Organizations

● Understanding incoming data transfer costs and outgoing data transfer costs (for example, from one Region to another Region, within the same Region)

● Understanding different pricing options for various storage options and tiers

📚 Knowledge and Skills:

● Billing support and information

● Pricing information for AWS services

● AWS Organizations

● AWS cost allocation tags

💡 Skills in:

● Understanding the appropriate uses and capabilities of AWS Budgets, AWS Cost Explorer, and AWS Billing Conductor

● Understanding the appropriate uses and capabilities of the AWS Pricing Calculator

● Understanding AWS Organizations' consolidated billing and allocation of costs

● Understanding various types of cost allocation tags and their relation to billing reports (for example, AWS Cost and Usage Report)

📚 Knowledge and Skills:

● Resources and documentation available on official AWS websites

● AWS Support plans

● Role of the AWS Partner Network, including independent software vendors and system integrators

● AWS Support Center

💡 Skills in:

● Locating AWS white papers, blogs, and documentation on official AWS websites

● Identifying and locating AWS technical resources (for example AWS Prescriptive Guidance, AWS Knowledge Center, AWS re: Post)

● Identifying AWS Support options for AWS customers (for example, customer service and

communities, AWS Developer Support, AWS Business Support, AWS Enterprise On-Ramp

Support, AWS Enterprise Support)

● Identifying the role of Trusted Advisor, AWS Health Dashboard, and the AWS Health API to help manage and monitor environments for cost optimization

● Identifying the role of the AWS Trust and Safety team to report abuse of AWS resources

● Understanding the role of AWS Partners (for example AWS Marketplace, independent software vendors, and system integrators)

● Identifying the benefits of being an AWS Partner (for example, partner training and

certification, partner events, partner volume discounts)

● Identifying the key services that AWS Marketplace offers (for example, cost management,

governance and entitlement)

● Identifying technical assistance options available at AWS (for example, AWS Professional

Services, AWS Solutions Architects)