Beginning AWS journey

I am finally jumping on the AWS bandwagon. I signed up for a Linux Academy subscription with Black Friday deal. I have read plenty of positive reviews and was hanging out for the bargain. I am going to start off with Cloud Practitioner and see where I go from there. I just thought I would create my own little "mini-blog" to share the journey.
I am trying to finish off CCNA in the next few weeks and then deep dive it for AWS.
I am trying to finish off CCNA in the next few weeks and then deep dive it for AWS.
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While getting the cert is nice, I also would want to stress about how much I'd want to learn more about how to properly utilize AWS in comparison to just doing good enough to pass an exam. It's one of those rock and hard place type of scenarios.
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-INTRODUCTION & SCENARIO
-Course Fundamentals and AWS Accounts
-Cloud Computing Fundamentals
This puts me at about 5% complete.
The Intro was worthwhile doing as it laid out Github setup information and course structure. I also found it worthwhile going through "Course Fundamentals and AWS Accounts" again as once you set up an AWS account that is it, you then move on the real stuff like VPC and EC2. The refresher was good to have. I mostly skipped "Cloud Computing Fundamentals" section as it is a rehash on what cloud is and just did not find it worthwhile.
Having used Adrian's course from Linux Academy I am seeing the same high quality provided. I like his clear speaking, well edited slides and presentation.
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I am about 20% of the way through the course and I am warming up to the style and presentation. I have completed
-Tech Fundamentals
-AWS Fundamentals
-IAM, ACCOUNTS AND AWS ORGANISATIONS
Tech fundamentals is pretty straight forward as it goes over topics like YAML, JSON and Encryption 101. I thought the presentation for Encryption was well explained even though I have read about Bob and Jane swapping keys many times previously. The section is rounded out with networking (OSI), I watched a few videos and thought the content was good but as I hold a CCNA I figured I already had the knowledge and wanted to move on to the more "meatier" AWS content.
AWS Fundamentals gets more interesting and goes over general topics like EC2, CloudFormation, Route53, etc. I liked the usage of templates to generate the content and showed the power of "automation" to construct infrastructure and apply settings.
IAM, ACCOUNTS AND AWS ORGANISATIONS goes over identities and policies, AWS orgs. I found the demo lesson helped a lot to get my head around Organizations. I find I understand the concept much better and liked the demo lesson to link accounts. The Chapter touched on few areas like Cloudwatch logs, Cloudtrail, Cost Explorer to name a few.
The section finishes with a Demo / Prac for AWS SSO which was quite interesting and see it being commonly used in real life. I will probably go through this prac a few more time to get the hang of it.
I moved through the Simple Storage Service (S3) section fairly quickly. Once again a good amount of theory with practical examples thrown in. I did not find the section too difficult overall but suspect I will go over some of the training videos a few times just to solidify concepts and knowledge.
Security focuses on analyzing policy documents. Reviewing JSON statements to determine allowed and denied. Exam guide lists Domain 5 : Security and Compliance as being 18%
Quick review of GuardDuty, Trusted Advisor, Inspector
VIRTUAL PRIVATE CLOUD (VPC) BASICS
I liked this section as it has real world application. Uses the example and how to structure VPC
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