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) | AI Professional (AIP-C01)
- Specialty: Security (SCS-C03) | Networking (ANS-C01)
Google Cloud Certifications
- Associate Cloud Engineer | Professional Cloud Architect | Professional Data Engineer
- Network Engineer | Security Engineer | Cloud Developer | DevOps Engineer
Kubernetes Certifications
- CKA – Certified Kubernetes Administrator | CKAD – Application Developer
- CKS – Security Specialist | KCNA – Cloud Native Associate
Terraform
📊 Popular Comparison Guides
- S3 vs EBS vs EFS — Storage Comparison
- SQS Standard vs FIFO — Differences & Use Cases
- Global Accelerator vs CloudFront — When to Use Each
- Kinesis Streams vs Firehose vs Flink
- EKS vs ECS vs Fargate — Container Decision Guide
- Aurora vs RDS vs DynamoDB
- WAF vs Shield vs Firewall Manager
- Network Firewall vs WAF vs Security Groups vs NACLs
- IAM Roles vs Policies vs Users
- KMS vs CloudHSM vs Secrets Manager vs Parameter Store
🤖 AI & Generative AI
- AWS AI & Gen AI Services — Cheat Sheet (Hub)
- Amazon Bedrock — Foundation Models
- Bedrock Agents, Knowledge Bases & Guardrails
- Amazon Nova Models — Foundation Model Family
- Amazon Q Developer & Q Business
- Amazon SageMaker AI — ML Platform
📝 Cheat Sheets
- AWS Services Cheat Sheet
- AWS AI & Generative AI Cheat Sheet
- AWS Security & Identity Cheat Sheet
- AWS Compute Services Cheat Sheet
- AWS Storage Services Cheat Sheet
- AWS Database Services Cheat Sheet
- AWS Analytics Services Cheat Sheet
- AWS Networking Cheat Sheet
- AWS Machine Learning 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
- KMS | CloudHSM | Envelope Encryption
- GuardDuty | Inspector | Detective | Macie
- Security Lake | Verified Permissions | Verified Access
- WAF | Shield | Firewall Manager | Network Firewall
- Control Tower | Cognito
AWS Networking & Content Delivery
- AWS VPC | VPC Beginners Guide
- ELB | ALB | NLB
- Route 53 | CloudFront | Global Accelerator
- Direct Connect | Transit Gateway | VPC Lattice
- API Gateway
AWS Compute
- EC2 | Instance Types | Purchase Options | Placement Groups
- Auto Scaling | Lambda | Lambda Durable Functions
- ECS | EKS | Fargate | Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Storage
- S3 | Storage Classes | Data Protection | S3 Vectors & Tables
- EBS | Volume Types | EFS | FSx
- Storage Gateway | S3 Glacier
AWS Databases
- RDS | Aurora | Aurora DSQL
- DynamoDB | ElastiCache | Redshift
AWS Application Integration
- Step Functions | EventBridge
- SQS | SNS | SES
AWS Management & Governance
- CloudWatch | CloudTrail | Config
- CloudFormation | Organizations | Systems Manager
- Trusted Advisor | Resilience Hub | Billing & Cost
AWS Analytics & Streaming
- Kinesis | Firehose | MSK
- EMR | Athena | Glue | QuickSight
- Redshift | Lake Formation | OpenSearch
AWS Machine Learning & GenAI
- SageMaker AI | Amazon Bedrock | Nova Models
- Amazon Q Developer & Q Business | Amazon Quick
- Bedrock Agents & Knowledge Bases | AWS Continuum
AWS Migration & Transfer
AWS Developer Tools
AWS Architecture Patterns
Production-ready reference architectures mapped to Professional & Specialty certification exams:
- AWS Architecture Patterns – Complete Hub (All 10)
- GenAI Application Architecture – Bedrock, RAG, Agents & Guardrails
- Multi-Account Architecture – Organizations & Control Tower
- CI/CD Pipeline Architecture – CodePipeline & Deployment Strategies
- Zero Trust Security – Verified Access & VPC Lattice
- Disaster Recovery – All 4 Strategies Compared
- Event-Driven Serverless – EventBridge, SQS, SNS & Step Functions
- Hybrid Cloud Networking – Direct Connect & Transit Gateway
- MLOps Pipeline – SageMaker Pipelines & Model Registry
- Data Lake & Analytics – Ingestion to Visualization
- Container Platform – ECS, EKS & Fargate Production
AWS AI & GenAI Deep Dives
- Amazon Bedrock vs SageMaker – When to Use Each
- RAG Architecture on AWS – Bedrock Knowledge Bases
- Prompt Engineering on AWS – Techniques & Best Practices
- Responsible AI – Guardrails, Governance & Ethics
- AWS AI Services Decision Guide – Which Service for Which Use Case