Amazon Web Service training

What you will learn in this course

• Understand what is Cloud computing and AWS.
• Building applications on AWS using resources like Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS and Amazon S3 etc.
• Creating application stacks using Amazon Cloud Formation.
• Configuring AWS as virtual datacenter and enable connectivity using Amazon VPC and VPN.
• Protecting unauthorized access to AWS resources using Security groups and network ACLs.

Security: Identity Access Management (IAM)

Storage: S3, Glacier, Snowball, Storage Gateway, S3 Transfer Acceleration

Compute: EC2, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk

Database:  RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Redshift

Networking:  VPC, CloudFront, Route 53, API Gateway

Application Services:  Simple Notification Service (SNS), Simple Queue Service (SQS), Elastic Transcoder, Kinesis... and more

 

Setup Requirements

• Need to set up an AWS free tierAccount.
• (Most of the Services come with AWS free tier eligibility).
• Windows: Putty, Putty KeyGen and Web Browser with Internet connectivity.
• Linux/Mac : DefaultTerminal.

Amazon AWS Course Outline

 

CHAPTER 1

Introduction to the Course

Introduction to cloud computing

Different vendors of Cloud computing

Importance of cloud computing

Advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing

Cloud deployment methods

Private cloud

Public cloud

Community cloud

Cloud Service / Delivery models

Software as a service (SaaS)

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

What You'll Need Getting Started

CHAPTER 2

Brief History of AWS

The History So Far

Setting Up A Free Tier Account

CHAPTER 3

Identity Access Management (IAM)

AWS Global Infrastructure

IAM Overview

IAM Lab

Create A Billing Alarm

IAM Summary

 

CHAPTER 4

AWS Object Storage and CDN - S3, Glacier and CloudFront

S3 Overview

Create an S3 Bucket

S3 Version Control

Cross Region Replication

S3 Life Cycle Management & Glacier

CloudFront CDN Overview

Create a CloudFront CDN

S3 Security and Encryption

Storage Gateway

Snowball

S3 Transfer Acceleration

Create A Static Website Using S3

Summary

CHAPTER 5

EC2 - The Backbone of AWS

EC2 Overview

Launch an EC2 Instance

How to use Putty (Windows Users Only)

Security Groups Basics

Upgrading EBS Volume Types

Encrypt Root Device Volume and Create an AMI

AMIs - EBS Root Device Volumes vs Instance Store

Load Balancers and Health Checks

Cloud Watch EC2

The AWS Command Line and EC2

Using IAM Roles with EC2

S3 CLI & Regions

Using Bootstrap Scripts

EC2 Instance Metadata

Autoscaling Groups

EC2 Placement Groups

Elastic File System

Lambda - Concepts

Build AServerless Webpage

EC2 Summary

CHAPTER 6

Route53(DNS)

DNS Overview

Register A Domain Name

Setup Our EC2 Instances

Simple Routing Policy

Weighted Routing Policy

Latency Routing Policy

Failover Routing Policy

Geolocation Routing Policy

DNS Exam Tips

CHAPTER 7

Databases on AWS

Databases

Create our first RDS Instance

RDS - Back Ups, Multi-AZ & Read Replicas

DynamoDB

RedShift

Elasticache

Aurora

Databases Summary

CHAPTER 8

Virtual Private Cloud(VPC)

Introduction and Overview of VPC

Build Your Own Custom VPC

Network Address Translation (NAT)

Access Control Lists (ACLs)

Custom VPCs and ELBs

VPC Flow Logs

NATs vs Bastions

VPC End Points

VPC Clean Up

Summary

CHAPTER 9

Application Services

SQS

SWF

SNS

Elastic Transcoder

API Gateway

Kinesis

Application Services Summary

CHAPTER 10

Real-time practical - Creating a fault tolerant Word Press Site

Getting Setup

Setting Up EC2

Adding Resilience And CloudFront

Setting Up Our AMIs

AutoScaling& Load Testing

CloudFormation!

CHAPTER 11

Preparing for the Exam - White Paper Reviews