CLF case studies
CLF · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (often abbreviated CLF, and currently offered as CLF-C02) is AWS's foundational certification. It is aimed at people who need a working command of cloud vocabulary and the AWS service catalogue rather than deep hands-on engineering: sales and marketing staff, project and product managers, finance and procurement analysts, support staff, and career changers preparing for a more technical role. The CLF case studies are 5 cases and about 3,479 words.
1Northwind Freight: Choosing Migration Paths Under a Lease Deadline
Northwind Freight runs 120 VMware VMs in a colocation facility whose lease expires in 14 months. The 30 TB Oracle payroll and billing database is licensed per core and audited annually.
719 words, about 4 min2CareFirst Virtual Care: Thirty Days to a Partner Security Review
CareFirst Virtual Care is a 40-person telehealth startup running in a single AWS account in us-east-1. Twelve engineers share one IAM user with AdministratorAccess because roles slow us down.
691 words, about 3 min3TicketHarbor: Surviving a Ten-Minute Traffic Wall
TicketHarbor sells concert tickets. Normal traffic is 400 requests per second, but an on-sale event produces 20,000 requests per second for about ten minutes, then drops.
686 words, about 3 min4Lumen Analytics: A 40 Percent Overrun and No One to Call
Lumen Analytics runs a steady baseline of 200 m6i instances for ETL that must run 24/7, plus a nightly rendering job of 600 instances that can tolerate interruption and restarts. Finance approved a 12-month cloud budget.
687 words, about 3 min5Silverframe Studios: A Four-Hour Recovery Contract Across Three Continents
Silverframe Studios edits and renders film in London, Toronto, and Singapore. Editors need sub-50 ms access to 500 TB of source footage, and local data-protection rules require EU-origin footage to remain in the EU.
696 words, about 3 min