Cloud Practitioner
Build cloud literacy before choosing a technical specialization. Understand AWS value, basic services, security responsibilities and billing.
Who this path is for
Start here if cloud terminology is new. Prior certification is not needed.
Study each topic, complete the applied exercise, and keep evidence of what you learned. These are original study milestones, not a claim to reproduce the full exam blueprint. Use the linked AWS exam guide to check all in-scope domains before booking.
Your learning roadmap
01Cloud concepts
3 focus areas · applied exercise
Cloud concepts
3 focus areas · applied exercise- Regions and Availability Zones
- Elasticity and availability
- Shared responsibility
Draw the failure boundaries of a two-AZ application.
Explain which failures an extra AZ can and cannot solve.
02Security foundations
3 focus areas · applied exercise
Security foundations
3 focus areas · applied exercise- IAM roles and policies
- Root account protection
- Encryption and compliance
Write an access matrix for an operator, an application and an auditor.
Justify each permission and identify who protects the data.
03Core AWS services
3 focus areas · applied exercise
Core AWS services
3 focus areas · applied exercise- EC2 and Lambda
- S3 and databases
- VPC and DNS
Complete the S3 recovery lab, then compare object storage with a database.
Record the recovery result and explain the storage choice.
04Cost and support
3 focus areas · applied exercise
Cost and support
3 focus areas · applied exercise- Usage-based billing
- Budgets
- Pricing Calculator and support resources
Estimate a tiny learning workload using the AWS Pricing Calculator.
List the charging dimensions and the resources to remove after practice.
Put the learning into practice
Related labs cover selected skills. Completing them does not establish exam readiness.