Amazon Web Services AWS Cheat Sheets
For your convenience, this page serves as a directory of all AWS cheat sheets that we have published so far.
Our AWS cheat sheets were created to give you a bird’s eye view of the important AWS services that you need to know by heart to be able to pass the different AWS certification exams such as the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, as well as the other Associate, Professional, and Specialty certification exams. It’s presented mostly in bullet points to provide you with easy-to-digest and easy-to-remember notes that will help you gain a better understanding of the different AWS services.
While these AWS cheat sheets will save you from going through all the AWS documentations, we still highly recommend that you read those as well as the whitepapers to supplement your exam preparations. Also, check out these helpful AWS exam study guides which contain tips and resources that you can use while reviewing for your AWS certification exam.
We also recommend that you answer as many AWS practice test questions as you can to further increase your chances of passing the exam. And if you want to access only the relevant cheat sheets for the specific AWS exams that you are preparing for then check out the Tutorials Dojo AWS Study Guide and Cheat Sheets eBooks.
AWS Overview
- AWS Global Infrastructure
- AWS Pricing
- AWS Five Pillars
- AWS Design Principles
- AWS Disaster Recovery
- AWS Support Plans
AWS Compute Services
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
- Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
- Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
- Amazon Lightsail
- AWS Batch
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- AWS Fargate
- AWS Lambda
- AWS ParallelCluster
- AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM)
- AWS Savings Plan
Other Compute-related Notes:
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks
- Configuring Notifications for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks
- Step Scaling vs Simple Scaling Policies in Amazon EC2
- Elastic Fabric Adapter
- ECS Task Placement Strategies
- ECS Network Modes Comparison
- Logging Using awslogs Log Driver in Amazon ECS
AWS Storage Services
- Amazon EBS
- Amazon EFS
- Amazon FSx
- Amazon S3
- Amazon S3 Glacier
- AWS Snowball Edge
- AWS Snowmobile
- AWS Storage Gateway
Other Storage-related Notes:
AWS Database Services
- Amazon Aurora
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon ElastiCache
- Amazon RDS
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon DocumentDB
- Amazon Neptune
- Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)
Other Database-related Notes:
- Aurora Serverless Tutorial – Part 1
- Aurora Serverless Tutorial – Part 2
- Amazon Aurora Machine Learning
- DynamoDB Scan vs Query
- Calculating Required RCU And WCU For Your DynamoDB Table
- Global Secondary Index vs Local Secondary Index
- Lambda Integration With Amazon DynamoDB Streams
- Redis Append-Only Files vs Redis Replication
- Redis (Cluster Mode Enabled vs Disabled) vs Memcached
AWS Migration Services
- AWS Database Migration Service
- AWS DataSync
- AWS Migration Strategies – The 6 R‘s
- AWS Server Migration Service (SMS)
- AWS Snowball Edge
- AWS Snowmobile
AWS Networking & Content Delivery
- Amazon API Gateway
- Amazon CloudFront
- Amazon Route 53
- Amazon VPC
- AWS Direct Connect
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
- AWS Global Accelerator
- AWS Transit Gateway
Other Networking-related Notes:
- AWS Global Accelerator vs Amazon CloudFront
- How to Invalidate API Gateway Cache
- Increasing MTU for Your EC2 Instance
- VPC Peering
- Longest Prefix Match: Understanding Advanced Concepts in VPC Peering
- Resolve Route 53 Private Hosted Zones from an On-premises Network
AWS Security & Identity Services
- Amazon Cognito
- Amazon Detective
- Amazon GuardDuty
- Amazon Inspector
- Amazon Macie
- AWS Artifact
- AWS Certificate Manager
- AWS Directory Service
- AWS Firewall Manager
- AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM)
- AWS Key Management Service
- AWS Organizations
- AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)
- AWS Secrets Manager
- AWS Security Hub
- AWS Shield
- AWS WAF
Other Security-related Notes:
- Amazon Cognito User Pools vs Identity Pools
- Amazon S3 Bucket Policies for VPC Endpoints
- AWS Secrets Manager vs Systems Manager Parameter Store
- Locking Glacier Vault using Amazon S3 Glacier API
- IP Blocking: Use AWS WAF or NACL?
- Using the Secure String Parameter in Systems Manager Parameter Store
- Customer Master Keys (CMKs) Policy Management in AWS KMS
- Working with Customer Master Keys (CMKs) Using the AWS KMS API
- Monitoring GuardDuty Findings with Amazon CloudWatch Events
- Managing Amazon GuardDuty Security Findings Across Multiple Accounts
AWS Management Tools
- Amazon CloudWatch
- AWS Auto Scaling
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS CloudTrail
- AWS Config
- AWS Health
- AWS Management Console
- AWS OpsWorks
- AWS Service Catalog
- AWS Systems Manager
- AWS Trusted Advisor
Other Management-related Notes:
- AWS CloudFormation StackSets and Nested Stacks
- AWS CloudFormation Deletion Policy
- Monitoring GuardDuty Findings with Amazon CloudWatch Events
- Managing Amazon GuardDuty Security Findings Across Multiple Accounts
AWS Analytics Services
- Amazon Athena
- Amazon CloudSearch
- Amazon Elasticsearch (ES)
- Amazon EMR
- Amazon Kinesis
- Amazon QuickSight
- Amazon Redshift
- AWS Data Pipeline
- AWS Glue
Other Analytics-related Notes:
AWS Billing and Cost Management
AWS Developer Tools
Other Developer-related Notes:
- AWS CodeCommit Repository
- Instrumenting Your Application with AWS X-Ray
- Lifecycle Event Hooks in CodeDeploy
AWS Application Services
AWS Desktop And App Streaming
AWS Machine Learning And AI
- Amazon Comprehend
- Amazon Elastic Inference
- Amazon Lex
- Amazon Polly
- Amazon Rekognition
- Amazon SageMaker
- Amazon Transcribe
- Amazon Translate
- AWS DeepLens
Other AWS Services
Comparison of AWS Services
- Amazon Cognito User Pools vs Identity Pools
- Amazon Aurora vs Amazon RDS
- Amazon RDS vs DynamoDB
- Amazon S3 vs EBS vs EFS
- Amazon S3 vs Glacier
- Amazon SWF vs AWS Step Function vs Amazon SQS
- Application Load Balancer vs Network Load Balancer vs Classic Load Balancer
- AWS CloudTrail vs Amazon CloudWatch
- AWS DataSync vs Storage Gateway
- AWS Global Accelerator vs Amazon CloudFront
- AWS Secrets Manager vs Systems Manager Parameter Store
- Backup and Restore vs Pilot Light vs Warm Standby vs Multi – site
- CloudWatch Agent vs SSM Agent vs Custom Daemon Scripts
- EBS-SSD vs HDD
- EC2 Container Services ECS vs Lambda
- EC2 Instance Health Check vs ELB Health Check vs Auto Scaling and Custom Health Check
- Elastic Beanstalk vs CloudFormation vs OpsWorks vs CodeDeploy
- Global Secondary Index vs Local Secondary Index
- Latency Routing vs Geoproximity Routing vs Geolocation Routing
- Redis Append – Only files vs Redis Replication
- Redis Cluster Mode Enabled vs Disabled vs Memcached
- S3 Pre-Signed URLS vs CloudFront Signed URLS vs Origin Access Identity
- S3 Standard vs S3 Standard-IA vs S3OneZone-IA
- S3 Transfer Acceleration vs Direct Connect vs VPN vs Snowball vs Snowmobile
- Security Group vs NACL
- Service Control Policies vs IAM Policies
- SNI Custom SSL vs Dedicated IP Custom SSL
- Step Scaling vs Simple Scaling Policies in Amazon EC2
AWS vs Azure Services Comparison
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner vs AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
Once again, if you want to access only the relevant cheat sheets for the specific AWS exams that you are preparing for then do check out the Tutorials Dojo Study Guide and Cheat Sheets eBooks.