The AWS Technical Essentials course introduces the fundamentals of AWS services and common solutions. It covers key concepts related to compute, databases, storage, networking, monitoring, and security. Through hands-on exercises, you will enhance your understanding of AWS services to make informed decisions. You will also learn how to design cloud solutions that are available, fault-tolerant, scalable, and cost-effective.
- Level: Fundamental
- Duration: 1 day
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
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 & Introduction
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- 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)
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- 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
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- Networking in AWS
- Introduction to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
- Amazon VPC routing
- Amazon VPC security
- Hands-On Lab: Creat a VPC and Relaunch the Corporate Directory Application in Amazon EC2
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- 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
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- 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
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- Monitoring
- Optimization
- Alternate serverless employee directory application architecture
- Hands-On Lab: Configure High Availability for your Application
Module 7: Course Summary
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