COURSE OBJECTIVES                      

• In this course, you will learn to:
• Describe terminology and concepts related to AWS services
• Navigate the AWS Management Console
• Articulate key concepts of AWS security measures and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Distinguish among several AWS compute services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
• Understand AWS database and storage offerings, including Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
• Explore AWS networking services
• Access and configure Amazon CloudWatch monitoring features

Activities

This course includes presentations, hands-on labs, demonstrations, videos, and knowledge checks.

INTENDED AUDIENCE

This course is intended for:

• Individuals responsible for articulating the technical benefits of AWS services to customers
• Individuals interested in learning how to get started with AWS
• SysOps administrators
• Solutions architects
• Developers

PREREQUISITES  

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• IT experience
• Basic knowledge of common data center architectures and components (servers, networking, databases, applications, and so on)
• No prior cloud computing or AWS experience required

Course outline

Course Introduction

Module 1: Introduction to Amazon Web Services

• Introduction to AWS Cloud
• Security in the AWS Cloud
• Hosting the employee directory application in AWS
• Hands-On Lab: Introduction to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Module 2: AWS Compute

• Compute as a service in AWS
• Introduction to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
• Amazon EC2 instance lifecycle
• AWS container services
• What is serverless?
• Introduction to AWS Lambda
• Choose the right compute service
• Hands-On Lab: Launch the Employee Directory Application on Amazon EC2

Module 3: AWS Networking

• Networking in AWS
• Introduction to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
• Amazon VPC routing
• Amazon VPC security
• Hands-On Lab: Create a VPC and Relaunch the Corporate Directory Application in Amazon EC2

Module 4: AWS Storage

• AWS storage types
• Amazon EC2 instance storage and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
• Object storage with Amazon S3
• Choose the right storage service
• Hands-On Lab: Create an Amazon S3 Bucket

Module 5: Databases

• Explore databases in AWS
• Amazon Relational Database Service
• Purpose-built databases
• Introduction to Amazon DynamoDB
• Choose the right AWS database service
• Hands-On Lab: Implement and manage Amazon DynamoDB

Module 6: Monitoring, Optimization, and Serverless

• Monitoring
• Optimization
• Alternate serverless employee directory application architecture
• Hands-On Lab: Configure High Availability for Your Application

Module 7: Course Summary