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AWS, Google Cloud & Kubernetes Certification Guide

Comprehensive study notes, cheat sheets, and practice questions for cloud certification exams — updated for 2026. Trusted by 500,000+ cloud professionals.

🎯 Start Here — Choose Your Certification

AWS Certifications

• Foundational: Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) | AI Practitioner (AIF-C01)
• Associate: Solutions Architect (SAA-C03) | Developer (DVA-C02) | SysOps (SOA-C02) | Data Engineer (DEA-C01) | ML Engineer (MLA-C01)
• Professional: SA Professional (SAP-C02) | DevOps Professional (DOP-C02)
• Specialty: Security (SCS-C02) | Networking (ANS-C01) | ML Specialty (MLS-C01)

Kubernetes Certifications

• CKA – Certified Kubernetes Administrator
• CKAD – Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
• CKS – Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
• KCNA – Kubernetes & Cloud Native Associate

Google Cloud Certifications

• Associate Cloud Engineer | Professional Cloud Architect | Professional Data Engineer
• Network Engineer | Security Engineer | Cloud Developer | DevOps Engineer

Terraform

• HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate

📊 Popular Comparison Guides

• S3 vs EBS vs EFS — Storage Comparison
• SQS vs SNS vs EventBridge
• RDS vs DynamoDB — Database Decision Guide
• EKS vs ECS — Container Decision Guide
• WAF vs Shield vs Firewall Manager
• Direct Connect vs VPN
• ALB vs NLB vs CLB — Load Balancer Comparison

📝 Cheat Sheets

• AWS Services Cheat Sheet
• AWS Identity Services Cheat Sheet
• AWS Compute Services Cheat Sheet
• AWS Storage Services Cheat Sheet
• AWS Content Delivery Cheat Sheet
• AWS Database Services Cheat Sheet
• AWS Analytics Services Cheat Sheet
• AWS Application Services Cheat Sheet
• AWS Machine Learning Services Cheat Sheet
• AWS Management Tools Cheat Sheet
• Google Cloud Services Cheat Sheet
• Terraform Cheat Sheet

📚 AWS Services — Complete Topic Index

AWS Security, Identity & Compliance

• AWS IAM
  • AWS IAM Role
  • IAM Role – Identity Providers and Federation
  • IAM Policy and Permissions
  • AWS IAM Roles vs Resource Based Policies
  • AWS IAM Best Practices
• AWS Key Management Service – KMS
• AWS CloudHSM
• AWS Directory Services
• AWS WAF
• AWS IDS/IPS
• Amazon Cognito
• Amazon GuardDuty
• Amazon Inspector
• Amazon Macie
• AWS Shield

AWS Networking & Content Delivery

• AWS VPC
  • VPC Endpoints
  • VPC Peering
  • VPC NAT
  • Security Group vs NACLs
• Elastic Load Balancing
  • Application Load Balancer
  • Network Load Balancer
• Route 53
• CloudFront
• Direct Connect
• Transit Gateway
• Global Accelerator
• API Gateway

AWS Compute

• EC2
  • Instance Types | Purchase Options | Placement Groups
  • EC2 Security | Monitoring | Best Practices
• Auto Scaling
• Lambda
• Elastic Beanstalk
• ECS | EKS | Fargate

AWS Storage

• S3
  • Storage Classes | Lifecycle | Permissions | Data Protection
• EBS | Volume Types | Snapshots
• EFS | FSx
• Storage Gateway
• S3 Glacier

AWS Databases

• RDS | Aurora
• DynamoDB
• ElastiCache
• Redshift

AWS Application Integration

• Step Functions
• SQS | SNS | SES
• EventBridge

AWS Management & Governance

• CloudWatch | CloudTrail | Config
• CloudFormation | Organizations | Systems Manager
• Trusted Advisor | Billing & Cost Management

AWS Analytics

• Kinesis Data Streams | Kinesis Firehose
• EMR | Athena | Glue | QuickSight
• Redshift | Lake Formation

AWS Machine Learning & GenAI

• SageMaker | Amazon Bedrock | Amazon Q Business

AWS Migration & Transfer

• Cloud Migration Services | Data Transfer Services

AWS Developer Tools

• Developer Tools | X-Ray

AWS Whitepapers

• AWS Services Overview
• Architecting for the Cloud – Best Practices
• High Availability & Fault Tolerance
• Disaster Recovery
• Blue Green Deployment
• AWS Security

📖 Resources & Deals

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