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Certified - AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Audio Course
by Jason Edwards
Ready to earn your AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner credential? The AWS Cloud Practitioner Audio Course is your complete, audio-first companion for mastering the foundational knowledge required to succeed on the certification exam. Designed for learners at all levels, this Audio Course breaks down the essentials of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud into clear, practical, and easy-to-follow lessons. Each episode covers key topics including cloud concepts, AWS core services, security and compliance, cost management, and cloud economics—all aligned with the official exam blueprint. Whether you’re brand new to IT or expanding your cloud expertise, you’ll gain the understanding and confidence to speak the language of the cloud and apply these principles in real-world environments.The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification validates a broad understanding of cloud computing and the AWS platform, making it ideal for students, business professionals, and technical teams seeking foun
Episodes
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Episode 106: Domain 4 Wrap-Up: Key Takeaways
In this final episode of Domain 4, we wrap up the key concepts and takeaways from the Billing, Pricing, and Support domain of the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam. This domain focuses on understanding AWS’s pricing models, cost management tools, and the different AWS support plans available....
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Episode 105: AWS Support Plans (Basic → Enterprise)
In this episode, we explore AWS Support Plans, which provide varying levels of assistance and resources to help you manage and troubleshoot your AWS environment. AWS offers four support plans: Basic, Developer, Business, and Enterprise. We’ll start by explaining the features of the Basic support...
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Episode 104: AWS Organizations & Consolidated Billing
In this episode, we explore AWS Organizations and Consolidated Billing, two services that help you manage multiple AWS accounts and optimize costs across your organization. AWS Organizations allows you to create and manage groups of AWS accounts, enabling you to apply policies, manage access, and...
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Episode 103: AWS Budgets & Cost Explorer
In this episode, we cover AWS Budgets and AWS Cost Explorer, two essential tools for monitoring, managing, and optimizing your AWS costs. AWS Budgets allows you to set custom cost and usage budgets for your AWS services and receive alerts when your usage or spending exceeds those thresholds.…
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Episode 102: AWS Pricing Calculator (Conceptual, Audio-Friendly)
In this episode, we introduce the AWS Pricing Calculator, a powerful tool for estimating the costs of AWS services based on your specific usage patterns. The AWS Pricing Calculator allows you to create and customize cost estimates for a wide range of services, including EC2, S3, RDS, and more....
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Episode 101: Data Transfer Pricing (Hidden Costs)
In this episode, we explore one of the often-overlooked aspects of AWS pricing: data transfer costs. AWS charges for data transferred between different AWS services, regions, and out to the internet, and these costs can quickly add up if not carefully managed. We’ll walk you through the different...
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Episode 100: Savings Plans & Dedicated Hosts
In this episode, we dive into two important cost optimization strategies within AWS: Savings Plans and Dedicated Hosts. Savings Plans offer flexible pricing for AWS compute services like EC2, Lambda, and Fargate, allowing you to save up to 72% over On-Demand pricing in exchange for a commitment…
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Episode 99: On-Demand vs. Reserved vs. Spot Instances
In this episode, we provide a detailed comparison of On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot Instances, helping you decide which option is best for your AWS workloads. On-Demand Instances are the most flexible and allow you to pay for compute capacity by the hour or second, making them ideal for...
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Episode 98: AWS Pricing Models Overview
In this episode, we explore the different pricing models available for AWS services, helping you understand how to optimize costs while using AWS resources. AWS offers several pricing models to cater to various needs, including On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot Instances, as well as Savings Plans....
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Episode 97: Domain 3 Audio Quiz: Scenario Walkthroughs
In this episode, we provide scenario-based questions related to Domain 3: Cloud Technology and Services. Scenario-based questions test your ability to apply your knowledge of AWS services in real-world situations, such as deciding on the best storage solution for an application or selecting the...
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Episode 96: Domain 3 Audio Quiz: Practice Questions
In this episode, we put your knowledge of Domain 3 to the test with practice questions based on the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam. These questions will cover the key AWS services and concepts discussed in Domain 3, including EC2, S3, RDS, and networking. We’ll walk you through each...
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Episode 95: Domain 3 Wrap-Up: Key Takeaways
In this episode, we wrap up Domain 3: Cloud Technology and Services, summarizing the key concepts and topics that you need to understand for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam. This domain covers a wide range of AWS services, including compute, storage, networking, and databases, as well…
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Episode 94: AI Services: Translate & Transcribe
In this episode, we explore two AWS AI services designed to help you break language barriers and convert speech into text: Amazon Translate and Amazon Transcribe. Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers high-quality, real-time translations between numerous…
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Episode 93: AI Services: Rekognition & Comprehend
In this episode, we explore two additional AI services from AWS: Amazon Rekognition and Amazon Comprehend. Amazon Rekognition is a powerful service for analyzing images and videos using machine learning. Rekognition can identify objects, scenes, faces, and even text within images and videos…
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Episode 92: AI Services: Lex & Polly
In this episode, we explore two powerful AWS AI services: Amazon Lex and Amazon Polly. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces, such as chatbots and voice assistants, using deep learning techniques for natural language understanding (NLU) and automatic speech recognition...
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Episode 91: SageMaker Overview
In this episode, we introduce Amazon SageMaker, AWS’s fully managed service that provides tools for building, training, and deploying machine learning (ML) models. SageMaker simplifies the process of developing machine learning models by offering a wide range of tools and frameworks that…
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Episode 90: Amazon QuickSight
In this episode, we explore Amazon QuickSight, a fast, cloud-powered business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to create and publish interactive dashboards and reports. QuickSight enables you to visualize and analyze data stored in AWS services like S3, RDS, and Redshift, as well as...
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Episode 89: Amazon Kinesis
In this episode, we introduce Amazon Kinesis, a suite of services that enables you to easily collect, process, and analyze real-time streaming data at massive scale. Kinesis is designed for workloads like real-time analytics, monitoring, and log processing, where you need to process data in...
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Episode 88: Athena & Glue
In this episode, we focus on Amazon Athena and AWS Glue, two powerful services for querying and processing data in the cloud. Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that allows you to analyze large datasets stored in Amazon S3 using standard SQL queries. We’ll walk you through how to set…
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Episode 87: Backup & Glacier
In this episode, we discuss AWS Backup and Amazon Glacier, two critical services for ensuring the durability, security, and long-term retention of your data in the cloud. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service that automates the backup of AWS resources such as EC2 instances, RDS databases,...
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Episode 86: Storage Gateway
In this episode, we explore AWS Storage Gateway, a hybrid cloud storage service that enables you to seamlessly connect on-premises environments with AWS Cloud storage. AWS Storage Gateway provides a set of services to extend your on-premises applications to the cloud by allowing them to securely...
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Episode 85: EFS & FSx
In this episode, we explore Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) and Amazon FSx, two fully managed file storage services provided by AWS that are designed for different use cases. Amazon EFS is a scalable, elastic file storage service that can be used with EC2 instances, containers, and on-premises...
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Episode 84: EBS vs. Instance Store
In this episode, we compare Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) and Instance Store, two types of storage options available for EC2 instances. EBS provides persistent block-level storage that is independent of your EC2 instance. It retains data even if the instance is stopped or terminated, making it...
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Episode 83: Lifecycle Policies & Versioning
In this episode, we focus on Amazon S3’s lifecycle policies and versioning, two powerful features that help you manage your data over time. S3 Lifecycle policies allow you to automate the movement of objects between storage classes based on predefined rules, helping you optimize costs and ensure...
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Episode 82: S3 Storage Classes
In this episode, we dive deeper into Amazon S3’s various storage classes, which provide different cost and performance options for storing data in the cloud. Amazon S3 offers several storage classes to help you optimize costs based on your data access patterns. We’ll walk you through the…
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Episode 81: S3 Basics
In this episode, we introduce Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), AWS’s object storage service designed to store and retrieve any amount of data, from anywhere on the web. Amazon S3 is known for its scalability, durability, and security, making it ideal for storing everything from static website...
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Episode 80: Direct Connect & VPN
In this episode, we explore two key networking services in AWS: AWS Direct Connect and VPN (Virtual Private Network). AWS Direct Connect provides a dedicated network connection between your on-premises environment and AWS, bypassing the public internet to offer more reliable, secure, and...
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Episode 79: CloudFront & Global Accelerator
In this episode, we explore two powerful AWS services for improving the performance and availability of your global applications: Amazon CloudFront and AWS Global Accelerator. CloudFront is a Content Delivery Network (CDN) that caches copies of your content at edge locations worldwide, reducing...
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Episode 78: Amazon Route 53
In this episode, we dive into Amazon Route 53, AWS’s scalable Domain Name System (DNS) service, which is used for routing end-user requests to applications hosted on AWS. Route 53 offers domain registration, DNS routing, and health checking, providing a complete solution for managing your domain...
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Episode 77: Security Groups vs. NACLs
In this episode, we dive into the differences between Security Groups and Network Access Control Lists (NACLs), two key AWS features used to control access to your resources in a VPC. While both serve the purpose of controlling inbound and outbound traffic, they operate at different layers within...
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Episode 76: VPC Basics (Subnets, Route Tables, Gateways)
In this episode, we explore the basics of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), which is the foundational service for building a secure, isolated network environment within AWS. VPC allows you to define your own network topology, including creating subnets, configuring route tables, and setting up...
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Episode 75: Database Migration Service
In this episode, we focus on AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), which simplifies the process of migrating databases to AWS with minimal downtime. Whether you’re moving a database to Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, or any other AWS service, DMS allows you to replicate your data in real-time and...
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Episode 74: Amazon Neptune
In this episode, we explore Amazon Neptune, AWS’s fully managed graph database service designed for building and running applications that work with highly connected datasets. Neptune supports two popular graph models: Property Graph and RDF (Resource Description Framework), which makes it…
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Episode 73: ElastiCache
In this episode, we dive into Amazon ElastiCache, a fully managed, in-memory data store service designed to accelerate application performance by caching frequently accessed data. ElastiCache supports two popular open-source caching engines: Redis and Memcached. We’ll explore how to use…
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Episode 72: DynamoDB
In this episode, we focus on Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed, serverless NoSQL database service designed for high-availability and low-latency performance. DynamoDB is ideal for applications that require real-time data access and can scale horizontally to handle massive amounts of traffic. We’ll...
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Episode 71: Amazon Aurora
In this episode, we explore Amazon Aurora, a relational database engine that is compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL but designed for the cloud with high performance, scalability, and availability. Aurora provides faster performance than traditional MySQL databases while offering the simplicity…
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Episode 70: Relational Databases with RDS
In this episode, we dive deep into Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service), AWS’s fully managed relational database service. Amazon RDS supports multiple database engines, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server. We’ll walk you through how to set up an RDS…
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Episode 69: Intro to AWS Databases
In this episode, we provide an introduction to the various AWS database services available, helping you understand the different types of databases and their use cases. AWS offers a wide range of database services, from relational databases like Amazon RDS and Aurora to NoSQL databases such as...
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Episode 68: Amazon ECR
In this episode, we focus on Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), a fully managed container registry service that makes it easy to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images. ECR integrates seamlessly with Amazon ECS and EKS, allowing you to build, store, and run containerized...
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Episode 67: Amazon EKS
In this episode, we explore Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), a fully managed service that makes it easy to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install or manage your own Kubernetes control plane. Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for container orchestration, and EKS…
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Episode 66: Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
In this episode, we dive into Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS’s highly scalable, fast, and secure container management service. ECS makes it easy to run, stop, and manage Docker containers on a cluster of EC2 instances. We’ll walk you through the basics of ECS, including how to create…
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Episode 65: AWS Fargate
In this episode, we explore AWS Fargate, a serverless compute engine for containers that allows you to run Docker containers without managing the underlying EC2 instances. Fargate abstracts away the infrastructure management, so you can focus on defining your containerized applications and...
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Episode 64: AWS Lambda
In this episode, we take a deep dive into AWS Lambda, one of the most popular serverless compute services offered by AWS. AWS Lambda allows you to run code in response to events, such as changes to data in Amazon S3, DynamoDB updates, or HTTP requests via API Gateway. We’ll walk you through how…
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Episode 63: Serverless Computing Overview
In this episode, we introduce the concept of serverless computing in AWS, focusing on how AWS services like AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB allow you to run applications without provisioning or managing servers. Serverless computing provides an event-driven architecture where you only pay…
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Episode 62: AWS Elastic Beanstalk
In this episode, we dive into AWS Elastic Beanstalk, a fully managed service for deploying and running web applications and services. Elastic Beanstalk abstracts much of the complexity of managing infrastructure, allowing you to focus on writing code while AWS handles the deployment, scaling, and...
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Episode 61: AWS Lightsail
In this episode, we introduce AWS Lightsail, a simplified cloud computing service designed for developers, small businesses, and startups looking to launch applications quickly and easily. Lightsail provides pre-configured virtual private servers (VPS), along with networking, storage, and…
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Episode 60: Auto Scaling
In this episode, we dive into Auto Scaling, a key service in AWS that allows you to automatically scale your resources up or down based on demand. Auto Scaling helps ensure that your applications maintain performance and availability, while also optimizing costs by automatically adjusting the...
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Episode 59: Elastic Load Balancing
In this episode, we explore AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), a service that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, or IP addresses. ELB helps you ensure that your applications can handle varying levels of traffic while...
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Episode 58: AMIs, EBS, and Instance Store
In this episode, we dive into three critical components of Amazon EC2: Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), Elastic Block Store (EBS), and Instance Store. AMIs are pre-configured virtual machines that include an operating system, software applications, and other configurations necessary for running...
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Ready to earn your AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner credential? The AWS Cloud Practitioner Audio Course is your complete, audio-first companion for mastering the foundational knowledge required to succeed on the certification exam. Designed for learners at all levels, this Audio Course breaks down the essentials of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud into clear, practical, and easy-to-follow lessons. Each episode covers key topics including cloud concepts, AWS core services, security and compliance, cost management, and cloud economics—all aligned with the official exam blueprint. Whether you’re brand new to IT or expanding your cloud expertise, you’ll gain the understanding and confidence to speak the language of the cloud and apply these principles in real-world environments.The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification validates a broad understanding of cloud computing and the AWS platform, making it ideal for students, business professionals, and technical teams seeking foun
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