Embark on a ground-up journey to cloud computing and the Amazon Web Services (AWS) eco-system, including all the other systems, services, and the security associated with it. This book provides you with the practical know-how to become an AWS Cloud practitioner.Your exploration will take you from key fundamentals of identity and access, storage, networking, architectures, databases, security and compute services all the way through to more advanced topics. The book is organized into easy-to-follow and engaging chapters with simple examples to make complex concepts very easy to understand followed by simple step-by-step demonstrations and case studies to make you proficient in every area of AWS. You'll manage databases in your on-prem data centers and set up, operate, and scale relational database in the cloud. All the services and resources taught in this book come from the AWS Free Tier, so you will not have to pay anything to use andlearn from this book.What You'll LearnUnderstand key concepts and benefits of cloud computingEmploy key cloud computing models and services Review the concept of virtual machines in a cloud computing contextStudy compute services that meet your requirementsWho This Book Is ForIT professionals looking to change their domain to cloud computing as well as those who are looking to utilize AWS for their systems and projects.