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Let's get AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional in 7 days!!

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/

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