The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Credential

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud provider: it rents computing, storage, databases, networking and many other services over the internet, and you pay for what you use. The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner is AWS's foundational certification. It shows that a person understands the AWS Cloud at an overall level: what it is, why organisations use it, how security works, which service does what, and how billing and support work.

The current exam has the code CLF-C02. AWS publishes an official exam guide for it, which lists four content domains. This course is built from that guide. It teaches every domain and task in your own words and practice questions, not AWS's text.

Who the credential is for

The exam does not test whether you can build systems. It tests whether you can recognise, name and explain. That makes it useful for many roles:

• people starting a technical career in cloud, support or operations;
• project managers, buyers, finance staff and sales staff who work with cloud teams;
• managers who approve cloud spending or cloud security decisions;
• engineers who want a first credential before an Associate-level exam.

The exam guide describes a target candidate with up to about six months of exposure to the AWS Cloud. That is a recommendation, not a requirement. Check the current requirements and policies with AWS before you book.