Introduction
This is my first time writing a blog post.
First, let me introduce myself. I worked in an IT company as a cloud engineer for 4 years and used AWS at work. A year ago, I quit my job and came to Australia to learn English.
So, my English skills are limited, but I believe this blog will be a good practice for me.
I previously held AWS certification, but it has expired. The primary goal of this blog is to retake my certification exam while writing in English!
Schedule
You can check the in-scope services.
https://d1.awsstatic.com/training-and-certification/docs-sa-pro/AWS-Certified-Solutions-Architect-Professional_Exam-Guide.pdf
I'm planning to do hands-on labs for as many of these services as possible in 7 days except for expensive services like Outposts / Wavelength / Direct Connect... (but I will summarize the key points of these services)
| Day | Title | Services used |
|---|---|---|
| Day0 | Set cost alert (Today!!) | AWS Budgets |
| Day1 | Basic VPC Configuration | VPC / Subnet / IGW / CloudWatch |
| Day2 | EC2 + remote access | EC2 / IAM / SSM |
| Day3 | Monitoring and Scaling | ALB / Auto Scaling |
| Day4 | Storage Configuration | S3 / EBS / EFS |
| Day5 | Data layer | DynamoDB / RDS |
| Day6 | Event-driven | EventBridge / Step Functions |
| Day7 | IaC | CloudFormation |
Let's get certification in 7 days!
Hands-on(Day0)
Today, I'm setting budget alert to avoid unexpected charges.(I was charged 200$ when I forgot to reduce the resource of Amazon Bedrock...It's so important!!)
1.Set cost alert by AWS Budget

Set an alert to trigger when it exceeds $15 by using "monthly cost alert" templete.
※It shouldn't exceed $15 to finish this hands-on.
2.Activate Cost Explorer
If you use a new account,you need to activate Cost Explorer which are useful to analyze your spends.
See you soon in Day1 hands-on!
/Link will be updated/
Top comments (0)