AWS Foundations Course Training

Amazon Web Services Online Training

Introduction to Cloud Computing

• A Short History
• Client-Server Computing Concepts
• Challenges with Distributed Computing
• Introduction to Cloud Computing
• Why Cloud Computing?
• Benefits of Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing Development Models

• Private Clou
• Public Cloud
• Hybrid Cloud

Cloud Delivery Models

• Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Platform as a Service(PaaS)
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Introduction to AWS

• Subscription to AWS
• AWS Free tier – Limits and usage
• Introduction to the AWS Management Console

Elastic compute Cloud (EC2) Essentials

• Regions and Availability Zones – How to choose the right one
• Amazon Machine Images (AMI)
• Working with AMIs
• Choosing the right AMI
• Deciding what goes into an AMI
• Finding the right AMI
• Pricing model in EC2 instances
• Deciding between On-demand instances, Spot instances, Reserved instances, Scheduled Instances, Dedicated Hosts
• EC2 Reserved Instance
• AWS Marketplace

EC2 Instances

• Building an EC2 Windows instance & Linux Instance
• Setting up security
• Security via Key Pairs
• Working with the Security Group
• Different IPs assigned to an EC2 instance
• Assigning Elastic IPs
• Logging into the instance
• Creating your own AMI/Registering your own AMI
• What are a placement group and advantages of placement groups
• EC2 instance protection
• User Data Management
• AWS Simple System Manager (SSM)

Elastic Book Store(EBS)

• Creating and deleting volumes
• Attaching and detaching volumes
• Mounting and Unmounting the attached volume
• Creating snapshots
• Increasing the volume size

Elastic Load Balancer(ELB)

• Creating a load balancer
• Internal Load Balancer
• External Load Balancer
• Load balancing protocols
• Security groups for the load balancer
• Configure health check for the load balancer
• Adding multiple instances to the load balancer
• Cross-zone load balancing
• Connection Draining

Auto Scaling

• What is auto scaling?
• Autoscaling components
• Benefits of autoscaling
• Creation of launch configuration
• A configuration of autoscaling policies based on the Load on EC2 instances.
• Advantages of using Auto-scaling with an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB).

Simple Storage Service(S3)

• Creating and deleting buckets
• Adding objects to buckets
• Getting objects
• Deleting objects
• Creation of a static website using S3 storage
• Uses of S3 storage
• Working with Permissions of S3.
• Lifecycle management in S3
• Accessing S3 storage via Tools

Glacier Storage

• Creating Vaults
• Accessing the Glacier vault using tools
• Using Glacier for backups
• Retrieval period

Identity and Access Managment (IAM)

• Creation of user accounts in AWS
• Setting up multi-factor Authentication (MFA)
• Roles in IAM
• Groups in IAM
• A delegation of permissions for users
• Creation of custom policies for delegation
• Account settings
• Credential Report

Virtual Private Cloud(VPC)

• Different types of networks that can be setup in AWS
• Creating a new VPC
• ACL & Security Groups
• Creation of Internet Gateway
• Connecting to instances in the gateway

Cloud Watch

• Debugging cloud-related issues
• Monitoring the AWS Service Health Dashboard
• Monitoring with Cloud watch
• Getting statistics for a specific EC2 instance
• Getting aggregated statistics
• Metrics for other AWS Services and related namespaces
• Setting up notifications

Simple Notification Services(SNS)

• Creation of a topic
• Subscribing to the topic via Email
• Setting notification for EC2 instance changes

Simple Queue Service(SQS)

• Creation of a queue
• Sending messages to the queue
• Setting SNS to SQS
• Retrieving messages from SQS

Simple Email Services(SES)

• Setting up email domain
• Limits of SES
• Test Email setup

Route 53

• Route 53 Overview
• Setup internal DNS Namespace
• Creating different records in Route 53

Directory Services

• Setup Active directory
• Adding EC2 instances to a domain
• Overview of different directory services

Elastic Beanstalk

• Creation of Web apps using Elastic Beanstalk
• Environment overview

Relational Database Service(RDS)

• Selecting the Engine
• Configuring the Database Engine
• Creating your Database
• Setting up automatic backups
• Authorizing access to the DB via DB Security Groups

Cloud Formation

• Building AWS infrastructure as a code
• Utilization of Sample templates
• Introduction to JSON
• Migrating content in different environments.
• Modifying the properties of the deployment.

Amazon Web Services Online Training

• Introduction to Cloud Computing
• Introduction AWS
• Elastic Compute Cloud
• Virtual Private Cloud
• Simple Storage Service
• Elastic Block Store
• Elastic Load Balancer
• Relational Database Service
• Identity and Access Managment(IAM)
• AWS Route53
• Cloud Watch and Simple Notification Service
• AWS auto scaling
• Demo-Architectingon AWS
• AWS CloudFormation
• AWS CloudTrail
• AWS Calculator