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Aws exam prep resources

Aws exam prep resources

Videos to Watch

EC2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Wi7V1wLYA

S3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKuL1K3oWuo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_vScxbIQLY&t=2556s

VPC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tff1mekxOJ4

DynamoDB

  1. AWS re:Invent 2016: Deep Dive on Amazon DynamoDB( Great, great introduction to DynamoDB . watch the first 32 minutes or so) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCW3lhsJKfw

Cloudformation

  1. My videos on Cloudformation (Part 1-4) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZatpRyftC0&list=PLQP5dDPLts644H-gXjuRFq3k-2AR17UnQ

Lambda

  1. My videos on AWS Lambda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FynLOwBgJAU&list=PLQP5dDPLts66-JF3tIV5m3Uaw2wAdQLK8

Identity and access Management

  1. AWS re:Invent 2016: Become an AWS IAM Policy Ninja in 60 Minutes or Less ( great video!! One of my favorites re:invent talks) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7-fAT3z8Lo&t=1612s

Cloudwatch

  1. Cloudwatch vs Cloudtrail in 15 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRCS820Tr8c

  2. AWS Lab: Monitor Memory Utilization on EC2 instances with Cloudwatch Custom metrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgRt3kiNt_Q

Cloudtrail

  1. AWS Cloudtrail vs Cloudwatch in 15 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRCS820Tr8c

AWS Command Line Interface

  1. AWS Command Line Interface(AWS CLI) playlist(~13 videos) by Saurav Sharma: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQP5dDPLts67DnDIb2IvXd6qPFbLabDCO

Route 53 and DNS

  1. AWS re:Invent 2016: DNS Demystified: Amazon Route 53: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAq-DDbFiIE

AWS Fundamentals

  1. AWS Fundamentals videos playlist by Saurav Sharma https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQP5dDPLts66eWDopxxCRjbu6QemVYhSC

Other Resources: AWS Frequently asked questions:

https://aws.amazon.com/faqs/

For all kinds of AWS updates:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/

For quick 10-minute lessons:

https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/tutorials/

Mini Videos on Real life Architectures of companies using AWS. This Is My Architecture Series:

https://aws.amazon.com/this-is-my-architecture/

Do a lot of labs. Labs steps and code from official AWS Github pages:

https://github.com/awslabs/

Documentation of All the services:

https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/?nc2=h_ql_d&awsm=ql-5

Reinvent Videos: Free 1 hour videos from AWS experts working on Amazon. This is from a conference that happens every year in Las Vegas and 40000 people attend. Walkthroughs, In depth sessions. There are 200, 300, 400 level videos. 1000 videos uploaded every year:

https://www.youtube.com/user/AmazonWebServices/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=27

Read the frequently asked questions for all the major services. Then read the FAQ’s on services that confuse you the most:

https://aws.amazon.com/faqs/

To make great Looking AWS Diagrams cloudcraft.co

Try to read these whitepapers before the exam ( About 300 Pages in total): (aws.amazon.com/whitepapers)

(44 Pages +30 pages of questions and best practices ) AWS Well-Architected Framework, November 2016 : https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS_Well-Architected_Framework.pdf

(36 pages) AWS Well-Architected Framework - Security Pillar, May 2017 : https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS-Security-Pillar.pdf

(49 Pages ) AWS Well-Architected Framework - Reliability Pillar, November 2016 : https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS-Reliability-Pillar.pdf

(45 Pages) AWS Well-Architected Framework - Performance Efficiency Pillar, November 2016 : https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS-Performance-Efficiency-Pillar.pdf

(35 Pages) AWS Well-Architected Framework - Cost Optimization Pillar, November 2016 : https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS-Cost-Optimization-Pillar.pdf

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