AWS - Learn | Experience

Cloud Computing concepts

Cloud Technology (Hardware, software and Network Virtualization)

Cloud deployment types

Cloud Service models

Advantages and disadvantages of using Cloud

About leading public cloud providers - AWS, GCP, Azure

First step - Creating your own AWS Account

Understanding pricing and Free tier

Logging into the AWS Console

Creating user for yourself

Get familiar with AWS console

Setting up your Linux/Windows workstation to use AWS

Understanding traditional Routing, LAN, IP addressing

Virtual networking - Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Subnets and Route tables

Public, Private and Elastic IPs

Understanding Classless Inter-domain routing (CIDR)

Security groups and Network ACL

Network Address Translation - NAT gateways and NAT instance

Private Connection options in AWS (VPN, DirectConnect)

VPC Endpoint, PrivateLink

Network architectures and use cases

Amazon EC2 Overview

EC2 essentials - Network, Storage, Compute

AMI, Security Group, Key-pair, EBS

Instance families and instance types

Ephemeral and Persistent disk storage (Instance store vs EBS)

Launching first EC2 virtual machine

Logging into the machine with SSH key-pair

Understanding Userdata and Metadata

Automating installation of HTTP server

Elastic Block Storage (EBS)

Attaching to EC2 instance, Mounting volume

EBS encryption and Snapshots

EC2 and EBS Cost considerations and saving

Overview of Cloudwatch

Namespaces, Metrics and dimensions

Setting up cloudwatch alarms

Integration with rest of AWS services

Custom cloudwatch metrics

Concept - Designing highly available and fault tolerant systems

Understanding load balancing concept, Protocols, Routing

Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) - Application LB and Network LB

Scaling concept - Vertical and Horizontal scaling

AWS Auto Scaling Group and integration with ELB

Scaling in/out on dynamic parameters

Deployment across multiple Availability Zones

ELB and Auto scaling use cases

Understanding AWS IAM w.r.t AWS account, Users, Services and resources

Root user, IAM Users and IAM Groups

Access key/Secret access key, key rotation and usage

IAM Roles - For Services, Federated users, AD users

IAM Policies - Structure of policy, types of policies

Managing AWS resource granular level permissions

IAM Best practices for effectively managing AWS account(s)

Understanding AWS APIs, CLI and SDK

Install AWS CLI on Linux/Windows

Configure AWS CLI to use your IAM credentials

Using AWS CLI - Help, Command structure, output format, parameters

Launch EC2 instance using AWS CLI

Query AWS resources using CLI

Using Python Boto3 SDK

Object storage vs block storage vs file storage

Understanding S3 service and its usage

S3 Buckets, Keys, URLs

S3 Bucket policies and Object ACLs to restrict access

S3 Storage classes - Standard, IA, RR

S3 storage types and Lifecycle policies

REST Interface and Data consistency (Strong vs Eventual consistency)

Protecting data - Bucket policies, Object ACLs, Versioning, Encryption, MFA

S3 Cross region replication

Data archival in Glacier

Uploading and downloading contents to and from S3

S3 performance considerations - multipart upload/download, hashing,transfer accelerator

RDBMS and NoSQL databases - OLTP vs OLAP

AWS RDS supported engines - MySQL, MariaDB, Aurora, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres

Multi-AZ deployments, Read replicas

Storage options for databases

Database backups and recovery

NoSQL Database - DynamoDB

Database Cache- Redis, Memcached

Database use cases

Understanding how internet DNS works

AWS DNS service - Route53 concept and components

DNS record types - A, AAAA, CNAME, NS and more

Hosted Zones - Public vs Private hosted zones

Route53 DNS routing policies - Simple, Geolocation, Latency, Weighted and more

Health checks

AWS Region level High availability

Understanding “What is DevOps”

How leading companies use DevOps to speed up time to market

Understanding Continuous Integration and Continuous deployment (CI/CD)

Introduction to DevOps tools - Jenkins/Hudson, Chef/Ansible/Puppet

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

AWS CloudFormation

Understanding Serverless concept

Lambda Service

Supported run time environments, Lambda functions, Configurations, Limitations

API Gateway and use cases

Integration of Lambda, API Gateway and DynamoDB

Sample serverless application architectures and examples

SQS - Queuing service

SNS - Notification Service

AWS CloudTrail

CloudFront (CDN)

AWS Kinesis

AWS Redshift

AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)

Snowball

Storage Gateway

Quick recap of complete training course, Q/A

Test your AWS knowledge - Practice test (30 mins)

How to prepare of AWS Solution Architect Associate exam

Access to online videos - exam preparation

Access to test dumps

Exercise 1: Setup your Ubuntu Linux workstation

Exercise 2: Connect to VM over SSH

Exercise 1: Setup your AWS Account and get familiar with AWS Console

Exercise 2: Launch an EC2 instance and connect over SSH

Exercise 1: Create VPC with Internet Gateway, Launch EC2 instance and connect over SSH

Exercise 2: Create Public and Private subnets and access instance in private subnet from public subnet

Exercise 3: Create NAT Gateway and NAT instance and route internet traffic for private instances

Exercise 4: Setup inter region VPC peering and access machines over private ips

Exercise 5 (Advanced): Setup IPSec VPN connection to AWS VPC

Exercise 1: Launch EC2 instance with Public IP in Public Subnet and connect over SSH

Exercise 2: Install web server, configure security group and access your simple web page over internet

Exercise 3: Launch EC2 Windows instance and connect over RDP

Exercise 4: Create AMI of EC2 instance. Sharing AMIs.

Exercise 5: Create 20GB EBS volume, attach to ec2 instance, mount it and use it. Detach volume and attach to another instance.

Exercise 6: Create snapshot of EBS volume and create new volume in another AZ

Exercise 1: Create cloudwatch dashboard showing CPU Utilization of all your instances

Exercise 2: Create AWS Billing alarm

Exercise 1: Create Application load balancer and set up multiple EC2 instances webservers behind Application Load Balancer

Exercise 2: Provision EC2 instances in AutoScaling Group hosting your static web page and configure them behind ELB. Configure dynamic policies to scale in/out automatically based on CPU usage

Exercise 1: Create IAM Policy and IAM user with no permissions. Add more permissions to user.

Exercise 2: Manage access to s3 bucket using different IAM policies (read, write)

Exercise 3: Launch EC2 instance with this role and see if you can write to bucket from EC2 instance without using ACCESS/SECRET keys

Exercise 1: Launch EC2 instance using CLI

Exercise 2: Query AWS to list running EC2 instances and filter out results based on certain criteria

Exercise 3: Launch EC2 instance using python Boto code

Exercise 1: Host your static website on S3 - Upload contents, Enable website, Set bucket policy

Exercise 2: Enable versioning on S3 bucket, upload objects, delete and restore versions

Exercise 1: Launch MySQL RDS instance and connect using sql client. Create database, schema, tables

Exercise 2: Launch an Web application which read/writes data into RDS database

Exercise 3: Create DynamoDB tables, Add and retrieve data

Exercise 1: See how can you create your own website hosted on S3 and point the DNS to S3 using Route53

Exercise 2: DNS failover across AWS regions with Failover routing policy

Exercise 1: Deploy an sample web application using elastic beanstalk

Exercise 2: Deploy wordpress site using AWS Cloudformation template

Exercise 1: List all running instances in AWS using AWS Lambda

Exercise 2: Send email with AWS inventory using AWS Lambda and SES

Exercise 3: Deploy sample API gateway application

Exercise 1: Create SQS queue - Send and Receive messages using python code

Exercise 2: Create SNS topic, Subscribe to email channel and send notification

Exercise: Provide your valuable feedback about this course 🙂

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