AWS provides cloud computing services that enable a business to build sophisticated and scalable applications. Therefore, knowledge about these services and learning how to work with them on the Cloud is crucial for businesses and Professionals who are or will be working on the cloud.
AWS Certification will help you achieve:
- The Ability to demonstrate skills, knowledge and expertise in designing and
- deploying projects on the AWS platform.
- Recognition and Visibility for your skills
- Credibility with employers and peers.
You will receive a certification credential which is a logo badge and title that may be used in business cards and other collateral to show that you are AWS Certified. AWS provides cloud computing services that enable a business to build sophisticated and scalable applications. Therefore, knowledge about these services and learning how to work with them on the Cloud is crucial for businesses and Professionals who are or will be working on the cloud.
Course Outline
Lesson 1: Fundamentals of Amazon Web Services
- Regions
- Availability Zones and Data centers
- AWS Credentials
- Review of All AWS Services
Lesson 2: Amazon Simple Storage Service(S3)
- Fundamental APIs: PUT, GET, LIST, DELETE
- Consistency model
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- Types of consistency model for distributed storage
- S3’s consistency model
- Really understanding eventual consistency
- S3 Namespace
- Access Control List
- Bucket Policy
- Pre-signed URL
- Multipart upload
- Understanding Pricing for S3
Hands-on: S3 Lab; Creating Buckets, objects, and managing access control
- Data encryption with S3
- Multipart upload
- Understanding Pricing for S3
- Data encryption with S3
- AWS Import/Export Service
- Server side logging
- Versioning of data in S3
- Architecture case study of common Use Cases of S3
Lesson 3: CloudTrail
- Introduction
- Features
- Usage & Limitations
- Pricing
Lesson 4: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
- EC2 Architecture
- EC2 Instance types
- Hardware differences
- On-Demand Instances
- Reserved Instances
- Spot Instances
- Data Persistence Models
- Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
- Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
- S3 AMI
- EBS AMI
- EC2 Security Model
- Security Credentials
- Signon Credentials
- Key pairs
- X.509 certificate
- Access keys
- EC2 Security Groups
- Security Credentials
- Instance addressing
- Generating Custom AMIs
- Working with EC2 Console
- Monitoring Instances with Amazon CloudWatch
- Amazon Elastic IP
Hands-on: Hosting an Application on EC2
Lesson 5: CloudWatch
- Architecture of CloudWatch
- APIs and Use Cases
- Canned metrics
- Custom metrics
Lesson 6: Simple Notification Services (SNS)
- Delivery Methods
- Use Cases
Lesson 7: Amazon Lambda
- Introduction
- Lambda Functions
- Event Sources
- Context Object
- Integration with AWS Services
Lesson 8: Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
- Core advantages of EBS
- Starting an EBS database instance
- Starting read-replica of database
- High fault tolerant multi AZ deployment
Hands-on: Deploying and scaling and application using RDS
Lesson 9: Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
- Fundamentals of a Load Balancer
- Starting a load balancer instance
- Sticky sessions
- SSL termination on ELB
Hands-on: Scaling the Application using Amazon ELB
Lesson 10: AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)
- Introduction
- ACM Concepts
- ACM Certificate Characteristics
- Types of Certificates
- Services Integrated with ACM
Lesson 11: Auto Scaling
- Understanding auto-scaling
- Auto-scaling Fundamentals
- Setting up auto-scaling rules
Hands-on: Deploying an auto-scaling app on the cloud using auto-scaling, EC2, RDS, ELB
Lesson 12: Virtual Private Cloud
- Deep Dive into AWS networking infrastructure
- VPC Networking Fundamentals
- Private and Public Subnets
- Allocation of IP Addresses
- CIDR Notation
- Elastic Network Interface (ENI)
- Routing inside VPC
- Network Address Translation (NAT)
- Internet Gateways
- Configuring Routes
- VPN tunnels to VPC
Hands-on: Hosting secure applications using public and private subnets
Lesson 13: Identity and Access Management
- Understanding IAM
- Groups and Users
- Application “Roles” in IAM
- Access Policies
- Federated Authentication on IAM
Hands-on: Generating groups, users, access policies and control
Lesson 14: Amazon CloudFront
- CDN Fundamentals
- Using CloudFront for Public Data
- Using CloudFront for Access Controlled Data
Hands-on: Setup CloudFront CDN for an Application
Lesson 15: Route 53
- Deep Dive on DNS Architecture
- Using Route53 for your Domain Name
- Creating Name Server Entries
- Setting up Health Checks
- Configuring for Multi-Location application
- Master – Slave Configuration
- Master – Master Configuration
- Weighted Round Robin
- Geo-location Aware Routing
Hands-on: Moving an existing domain name to Route53 and configuring multi-location Routing
Lesson 16: AWS CloudFormation and Tools
- Infrastructure as Code
- Understanding the Cloud Formation template sub-sections
- Generating template for our Infrastructure
- Deploying using Cloud Formation
Hands-on: Generating and Deploying Cloud Formation Templates
Lesson 17: Systems Operations on AWS
- Responsibility of a SysOps Admin
- Performance Consideration
- Multi-region Deployment
- Deployment Strategies
- Cost Optimizations
- Resource Tags
Hands-on: Custom CloudWatch Metrics
