AWS Business Professional (Digital)
Module 1
“Cloud Computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources and applications via the Internet,
with pay-as-you-go-pricing
Three factors that influence agility:
o Speed
Go global in minutes
o Experimentation
Reduce the time to get resources available to minutes
Lower the cost and time to experiment and develop
Increase agility for your organization
o Culture of innovation
Experiment often
Failure quickly at low cost
More innovation
AWS infrastructure is everywhere except for Africa and Antartica
Regions availability zones edge locations
o Region is a collection of two or more availability zones in a specific geographic area
o Availability Zones (AZs) are isolated collections of AWS resources, analgous to clusters of
data centers
o Edge locations – Robust Content Delivery Network that hosts websites; dynamic, static,
and streaming content; requests are automatically routed to the nearest edge location
To help customers achieve a global presence, AWS lets you place your applications in which of
the following infrastructure pieces around the world?
o Regions
Module 2
Managed Service Program
o Provides qualified APN partners with technical and business benefits to deliver AWS
Cloud services as business solutions to AWS Customers
AWS Quickstarts
o Built by AWS solutions architects and partners to help you deploy popular solutiosn on
AWS, based on AWS best practices for security and high availability.
o These reference deployments implement key technologies automatically on the AWS
Cloud, often with a single click and in less than an hour. You can build your test or
production environment in a few simple steps, and start using it immediately
Which Partner Program provides APN consulting partners with technical and business benefits
such as proactive monitoring and automation for their customer’s environment?
o AWS Managed Services
AWS Partner Ecosystem
o Includes a growing community of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Systems
Integrators (SIs), and Value Added Resellers (VARs) that are building services and
solutions on cloud computing with Amazon Web Services
o AWS Partner Network (APN)
Global partner program for AWS
o AWS Marketplace
Allows customers to discover, evaluate, and purchase IT and business software
optimized for the AWS Cloud
o AWS Core Benefits
Cost
Elasticity
Flexibility
Security
o Cost Benefit: Cost Savings
Trade capital expense for variable expense
o Cost Benefit: Economies of Scale
AWS continuously lowers prices
o Cost Benefit
Pay only for what you use
o Benefit: Elasticity
Easily scale up and down.
Quickly Deploy new applications
Instantly scale up as the workload grows
Instantly shut down resources that are no longer required
When you scale down, you don’t pay for the infrastructure
o Elasticity Benefit: Capacity Planning and Auto Scaling
Only what is needed is provisioned
o Flexibility Benefit:
Customers use their existing programming models, operating systems,
databases, and architecture
o Security Benefit
Share Responsibility Model provides a global secure infrastructure for AWS and
customers
o AWS takes the guesswork out of capacity planning by:
Letting you scale up or down based on actual resource needs
o Referring to the Shared Responsibility Model, choose 3 controls that are managed by
the AWS customer:
Operating system
Network and firewall configuration
Security group authorization
o Customer Adoption Journey
Explore
Adopt
Expand
Transform
o Customer Adoption Journey: Explore
Deploy non-critical applications
Setup security and user roles
Configure VPC
Integrate with AWS environment
Deploy dev/test workloads
o Customer Adoption Journey: Adopt
Company website
Run test/dev applications
Migrate production applications
Deploy analytics workloads
o Customer Adoption Journey: Expand
Expand their use of the AWS platform
View the platform from a whole of business perspective
Form teams to explore areas to leverage
o Customer Adoption Journey: Transform
Companies revisit and align their core IT strategies with the cloud
Adopt DevOps methodologies
Focus on automation and code refactoring to leverage AWS application services
Business Professional Assessment 1
o Which of the following regarding the Shared Responsibility Model does the customer
assume responsibility for?
The configuration of the AWS provided security group firewall
o Which of the following are the core components of cloud computing?
Compute, storage, database, networking
o Select the key benefits of the AWS Partner Ecosystem
Enables customers to easily find high quality partners to help get the most out
of the cloud
Partners can join fundamental programs designed to support their unique AWS-
based business
Provides members of the AWS partner ecosystem with business, technical, and
marketing support
o Which of the following are advantages of cloud computing?
Pay for only what you use
Self-service infrastructure
No limits on storage capacity
Rapid access to computing resources
o To help customers achieve a global presence, AWS lets you place your applications in
which of the following infrastructure pieces around the world?
AWS Regions
o Choose the best three responses that describe how AWS offers IT infrastructure at a
lower cost
AWS is comfortable running a high-volume, low-margin business
AWS passes the savings along to customers in the form of lower prices
Scale allows AWS to continuously reduce cost
o Which of the following statements best describes Auto Scaling
Increases or decreases compute resources on demand to meet your business
needs and minimize costs
o A stock trading company wants to deliver real-time data to its customers. Which
component of the AWS cloud computing platform will you explain to help convince the
customer about robust content delivery network of AWS?
Availability Zones
o Primary areas to touch upon when talking to potential customers about moving to AWS
include:
Replace CapEx with OpEx
Increase agility, speed, and innovation
Shift your company’s focus to the things that truly differentiate your business
o Select the key benefits of AWS Marketplace
Breadth of available products optimized for AWS
Quickly launch pre-configured server images
Online store for partners to offer pre-configured software
o Referring the Share Responsibility Model, which of the following controls are managed
by AWS?
The configuration of the security group firewall
The physical security of the facilities in which the services operate
Updates and security patches
o Which of the following are examples of how a consulting/system integrator can benefit
from using AWS Marketplace?
Simplify and accelerate client proof-of-concept engagements
Access to customer data and reporting
Opportunities for upsell of services through add-on solutions
o A developer of online games for social networking and mobile platforms requires a
solution that will enable them to scale based on demand. Which attribute of cloud
computing will you highlight when talking to the customer?
Elasticity
o AWS takes the guesswork out of capacity planning by:
Provisioning exactly the resources you need at the start of a project and letting
you scale up or down based on actual resource needs.
o Which of the following statements describe loud computing?
Computing resources are delivered as a service
Users can access resources at anytime from anywhere on the web
No need to purchase and maintain new hardware
o Which statement best describes Availability Zones?
Distinct locations within an AWS Region that are engineered to be isolated from
failures while providing low latency
o Amazon EC2 is part of which service category?
Compute
Module 3
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Evaluation Methodology
o Acquisition costs
o Operating costs
o Decommissioning and retiring systems cost
Replace large upfront expenditures with pay-as-you-go and only for what you use (lower TCO
with AWS)
o Capital expense variable expense
Pricing model choice to support variable and stable workloads (lower TCO with AWS)
o On-demand
o Reserved
o Spot
Save more money as you grow bigger (lower TCO with AWS)
o Tiered Pricing
o Volume Discounts
o Custom Pricing
Co-location Center
o Type of data center where equipment space and bandwidth are available to retail
customers
More time to focus on your business
o When you move to the cloud, only 30% of your time should be spent architecting for the
cloud and configuring your assets (vs. 7-% on-prem)
Total Cost of Ownership equation
o TCO = Acquisition Costs + Operations Costs
The cost areas that are factored when following the AWS TCO methodology
o S: Server Costs
o I: IT Labor Costs
o N: Network Costs
o S: Storage Costs
Achieving a lower TCO by:
o Convert your capital expense into variable expense
o AWS runs at a massive scale and passes that scale to customers in the form of lower
pricing
o Multiple pricing models support variable and stable workloads
o The more you use AWS, the lower your costs are
A TCO analysis is typically used for:
o Comparing the costs of running an entire infrastructure environment on premises or in a
co-location facility versus on AWS
o Comparing the cost of the underlying infrastructure requirements for a specific
workload to the cost of running that workload on AWS
o Building the business case for moving to AWS
Use the TCO Calculator:
o To compare the cost of running your applications in an on-premises or colocation
environment to AWS
AWS Pricing Principles
o No up-front investment
o Pay per use
o Pay as you go
o Services priced independently
o Volume pricing discounts
o Reserved instance discounts
Fundamental Cost Characteristics
o Compute
Majority driven by EC2
o Storage
Majority driven by S3
o Data Transfer Out
Majority driven by Amazon EBS
Amazon EC2 Pricing
o Compute
Instance type/hour
Amazon EC2 purchase options
Network I/O
o Storage
Volume storage
Snapshot storage
Volume I/O
o Other Costs
Load Balancing
Detailed Monitoring
Auto Scaling
Elastic OP Addresses
Operating Systems and Software Packages
IOPS
o Input Output per second
Amazon EBS Volumes
o Off-instance storage that persists independently form the life of an instance
ELB
o Elastic Load Balancing. An Elastic Load Balancer can be used to distribute traffic among
Amazon EC2 instances
Data Transfer Costs
o Data transfer out, not transfer in
o Cross Availability Zone or AZ data transfer
o Data transferred in different regions is charged as Internet Data Transfer on both sides
of transfer
The AWS pricing principles are based on the following:
o Pay as you go
o Volume based discounts
o Reserved instance discounts
Assessment 3
To compare the cost of running your application in an on-premises or colocation environment to
AWS, it’s best to use which tool?
o TCO Calculator
Which are the basic configuration areas you are comparing when using the TCO calculator?
o Physical servers or virtual machines
o Your IT enconrment
o Idle vs. utilized resources
The AWS pricing principles are based on the following:
o Reserve Instance discounts
o Pay as you go
o Pay per use
o Volume Pricing discounts
A TCO analysis is typically use for which of the following:
o Comparing the cost to run a specific workload to the cost of running that workload on
AWS
o Comparing the cost of running an entire infrastructure environment on premises or in a
colocation facility
o Building a business case for moving to AWS
Which AWS tool should you use to calculate the cost of lUanching a web application?
o AWS TCO Calculator
Which tool inspects your AWS environment and makes recommendations when opportunities
exist to save money by eliminating unused and idle resources or making commitments to
reserved capacity?
o Trusted Advisor
Which of the following statements are true about AWS Services?
o Customers only pay for what they use
o Long-term contracts are not required
o Customers can start or stop using a service at any time
o Each AWS service is priced independently
Which AWS tool is designed to enable you to get hands-on experience with AWS Cloud Services
at no charge for 12 months after you sign up?
o Free tier
The definition of TCO is:
o The acquisition and operating costs for running an infrastructure environment along
with the costs of refreshing, decommissioning, and retiring systems
Compute pricing is based on the following:
o Network I/O
o Amazon EC2 purchasing options
o Instance type per instance running hours
