AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner case studies
AWS CRWT · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner is AWS's foundational certification. It is designed for people who can demonstrate a broad understanding of the AWS Cloud - what it is, what it costs, how it is secured, and which service categories exist - rather than for engineers who build and operate workloads. The AWS CRWT case studies are 5 cases and about 2,687 words.
1The Startup That Only Has Cloud Concepts (and One Big Deadline)
A 12-person startup has been approved for a 6-month pilot of a public cloud, but the finance team only understands two things: "we do not want to buy servers" and "we need it to be cheaper than the $4,000/month we pay our colocation provider." The engineering lead wants to run a stateful relational database, a batch analytics job that runs once per night, and a public-facing web tier. Compliance has said that customer data must stay in a specific region, and the CEO wants the ability to scale instantly during a product launch.
568 words, about 3 min2The Over-Permissive Analyst and the Audit Finding
A mid-sized SaaS company runs a customer-support analytics workload in one cloud account. An auditor found that a support analyst's identity has an attached policy granting Action: " " on Resource: " " , inherited from a hurried migration two years ago.
543 words, about 3 min3Choosing Between a Managed Queue, a Managed Stream, and a Cron Job
An e-commerce team processes order events. Peak is 4,000 events/minute for about 20 minutes during flash sales; baseline is 40 events/minute.
549 words, about 3 min4The Bill That Doubled Without a Traffic Increase
A company's monthly cloud bill rose from 18,000 to 37,000 with flat user traffic. The bill shows: compute up 40%, data transfer out up 300%, and storage up 15%.
535 words, about 3 min5The Support Plan That Does Not Match the Workload
A healthcare-adjacent startup runs a patient-scheduling platform with a 99.9% availability commitment to its customers. It currently has the lowest-tier support plan, which provides no 24/7 access to engineers and no guaranteed response times for production-down cases.
492 words, about 2 min