AWS (Amazon Cloud) Essentials
Provide architects, developers, and administrators with practical skills to design, deploy, and manage core AWS services and migrate on-prem workloads to the cloud.
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Audience: Architects, developers, administrators
Duration: 2–3 days (depending on coverage)
Format: Lectures and hands-on labs (50 % lecture, 50 % lab)
Overview
Amazon Web Services (AWS)—also known as Amazon Cloud—has completely transformed the way we build infrastructure. This course teaches the most popular AWS components and services, shows how to build services on AWS, and explains how to migrate existing infrastructure to the cloud. Designed from a practitioner's perspective, it provides practical, working knowledge so students can be productive on AWS.
Objective
Provide architects, developers, and administrators with practical skills to design, deploy, and manage core AWS services and migrate on-prem workloads to the cloud.
What You Will Learn
- AWS services overview
- Elastic Compute (EC2, Elastic Load Balancing)
- Storage (S3, EBS, Ephemeral, EFS)
- Account & user management
- Networking (VPC, firewall rules)
- Databases (RDS, Redshift)
- NoSQL (DynamoDB, Redis)
- Elastic Beanstalk
- Route 53 DNS, SQS, SES
- Monitoring with CloudWatch
Course Details
Audience: Architects, developers, administrators
Duration: 2–3 days (depending on coverage)
Format: Lectures and hands-on labs (50 % lecture, 50 % lab)
Experience and background in software development and administration
Setup: Amazon EC2 environment provided • SSH client • Browser • Zero-setup (students do not need their own AWS account)
Detailed Outline
- Ecosystem & services
- Use-case examples
- Migration paths
- AMI & instances
- Storage types
- VPC & public IPs
- Security groups
- Spot instances
- Machine types & cost
- Custom AMIs
- Labs
- Storage options
- EBS snapshots & backups
- Benchmarks
- Labs
- Buckets & objects
- Permissions & access rules
- Labs
- Root vs IAM
- Permissions & roles
- Access audit
- Security groups
- Subnets
- VPC
- Routers & gateways
- Private/public IPs
- Access rules
- Labs
- RDS intro & choices
- Security
- Scaling & backup
- Capacity planning
- Labs
- DynamoDB
- Redis
- Concepts, design, scaling
- SQS
- SES
- Configuring & alerts
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