AWS Cloud Practitioner

A 20-chapter walkthrough of the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — CLF-C02 course deck (522 slides), written from the slides themselves, one chapter per section of the deck.

How to use these notes

Each chapter is a standalone page matching exactly one section of the original deck. You can read straight through from Chapter 1 to Chapter 20 (using the Next button at the bottom of each page), or jump directly to the chapter you want to revise. The Exam tip callouts flag what is commonly tested or easy to confuse; the Real-world example callouts make a concept concrete. Every page closes with a Quick recap table you can skim before the exam.

Going further

CLF-C02 is the entry-level certification. Once the foundations are solid, the natural next step is AWS SAA-C03, which reuses most of this material but goes considerably deeper and asks its questions from an architecture design angle.

Foundations & Identity

Cloud Computing & AWSWhat cloud computing is, the deployment and service models, the AWS global infrastructure and the shared responsibility model.

AWS IAMUsers, Groups, Roles, Policies, MFA, access keys and the account security best practices.

Advanced IdentityAWS STS, Amazon Cognito, Directory Service and IAM Identity Center.

Compute & Storage

Amazon EC2Virtual servers, instance types, Security Groups and the EC2 purchasing options.

EC2 StorageEBS volumes and snapshots, AMIs, Instance Store, EFS and FSx for Windows/Lustre.

ELB & Auto ScalingScalability, elasticity, high availability, the load balancer types and Auto Scaling Groups.

Amazon S3Buckets and objects, security, versioning, replication, storage classes, Snow Family and Storage Gateway.

Other ComputeDocker, ECS, Fargate, ECR, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, AWS Batch and Lightsail.

Data & Integration

Databases & AnalyticsRDS, Aurora, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, Redshift, EMR, Athena, QuickSight, Glue, DMS and more.

Cloud IntegrationSynchronous versus asynchronous communication, SQS, SNS, Kinesis and Amazon MQ.

Deployment & Operations

DeploymentCloudFormation, CDK, Elastic Beanstalk, the Code* services and Systems Manager.

Global InfrastructureRoute 53, CloudFront, S3 Transfer Acceleration, Global Accelerator, Outposts, Wavelength and Local Zones.

Cloud MonitoringCloudWatch, EventBridge, CloudTrail, X-Ray, CodeGuru and the AWS Health Dashboard.

Amazon VPCSubnets, Internet and NAT Gateways, NACLs versus Security Groups, Peering, VPN and Direct Connect.

Security & Machine Learning

Security & ComplianceShield, WAF, KMS, CloudHSM, GuardDuty, Inspector, Config, Macie, Security Hub and Detective.

Machine LearningRekognition, Transcribe, Polly, Translate, Lex, Comprehend, SageMaker, Kendra and Textract.

Accounts, Cost & Architecture

Billing & SupportOrganizations, SCPs, the pricing models, the cost tracking tools and the AWS Support plans.

Other ServicesWorkSpaces, AppStream 2.0, IoT Core, AWS Backup, disaster recovery, migration and Step Functions.

Well-ArchitectedThe six Well-Architected pillars, the AWS CAF, Right Sizing and the wider AWS ecosystem.

Exam PreparationThe CLF-C02 exam structure, question tactics, the registration process and the AWS certification path.

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Written from the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) course deck — for personal study only.