AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) case studies
AWS CRAW · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner credential is AWS's foundational certification for people who want to demonstrate a working understanding of cloud concepts and the AWS platform without necessarily building or operating workloads hands-on. It suits sales and marketing staff, project and product managers, finance and procurement analysts, technical writers, and career changers preparing for a first cloud role, as well as engineers early in their AWS journey who want a broad map before specializing. The AWS CRAW case studies are 5 cases and about 2,601 words.
1Startup Weighing CapEx for a Steady Web Tier
A 12-person startup runs a customer portal on three on-premises servers in a colocation cage. The cage costs 1,400/month including power and a 100 Mbps commit.
544 words, about 3 min2Least Privilege for a Shared CI Pipeline
A company runs a CI/CD pipeline on a build server that deploys a containerized application to production. Today the build server holds a long-lived access key for an IAM user with AdministratorAccess, because "it was the only thing that worked" during an incident two years ago.
514 words, about 3 min3Choosing a Data Store for a Reporting Workload
A retail company has an order system on a relational database that handles about 2,000 writes per second at peak. Finance wants near-real-time dashboards over the same data, plus the ability to run ad hoc queries across three years of history.
495 words, about 2 min4Reserved Capacity Decision Under Uncertain Growth
A SaaS company spends $18,000/month on compute. About 60% of that is a steady baseline that has grown less than 5% per quarter for two years; the rest is spiky batch processing that runs unpredictably.
528 words, about 3 min5Support Plan and Escalation for a Regulated Launch
A healthcare-adjacent company is launching a patient-facing service in eight weeks. The workload handles sensitive data and must meet a compliance framework the auditors will check.
520 words, about 3 min