We’re often asked, what’s the difference between AWS Technical Essentials and AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials?
While the two are comparable in some ways the AWS Technical Essentials course complements the AWS Architecting course well (AMWSA). It begins your technical journey and technical depth by providing an overview of many of the services covered in the follow-up course. Following that, the Architecting on AWS and Advanced Architecting on AWS courses expand the range of these services while also delving deeper. Amazon Web Services Cloud Practitioner Essentials provides a thorough foundation and overview of AWS cloud services. Let’s look at the differences now.
| Cloud Practitioner Essentials | Technical Essentials |
| Define the cloud and how it functions. Define the terms “cloud computing” and “deployment models.” Describe the value proposition of AWS Cloud. Describe the cloud’s underlying global infrastructure. Examine the various ways to interface with AWS. Give an example of a well-designed framework. Describe the fundamental architecture principles of AWS Cloud. Explain the concept of shared responsibility. Describe the AWS cloud’s security services. Define the AWS platform’s billing, account management, and pricing models. | AWS Foundational Services: (EC2, VPC, S3EBS) AWS Databases: (RDS, DynamoDB) AWS Management Tools (Auto Scaling, CloudWatch, Elastic Load Balancing, Trusted Advisor) AWS Security (Shared Responsibility Model, Identity and Access Management (IAM) |
Final Thoughts: Both are crucial. Choose each one carefully depending on your job path. It’s important to learn it and put it into practice on a regular basis. If you want to learn more about Cloud Practitioner Essentials or Technical Essentials, go to YouTube and search for it. You can use Learn Tube by Career Ninja to enhance your YouTube learning. If you type up “Technical Essentials tutorial” on Youtube, you’ll get a bunch of videos. A beginner will be confused because he or she will not know which video to select. Learn tube helps in the organization of YouTube search videos into a course style. So you don’t have to click on each and every video. It also provides online specialists who can assist you with your questions.
