Introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS) & the Cloud

• Introduction to Cloud Computing
• Why Cloud Computing?
• Benefits of Cloud Computing
• AWS Architecture and Terminology, AWS Regions and Availability Zones
• Understanding How AWS is Physically Set Up
• Understanding AWS, Understanding EC2 , Understanding Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) & Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
• Understanding VPCs, Understanding RDS
• Selecting the appropriate AWS service based on compute, data, or security requirements
• Cloud Service Models, Essential Characteristics & Cloud Computing Deployment Models
• Introduction to the AWS Management Console
• LAB – Subscription to AWS and Navigating the AWS Management Console

AWS Elastic Compute Cloud- AWS EC2

• Regions and Availability Zones – Choose the right Region
• Amazon Machine Images (AMI), Working with AMIs, Choosing the right AMI, Deciding what goes into an AMI and Finding the right AMI
• Pricing model in EC2 instances
• On-demand, Reserved, Scheduled, Spot instances, Dedicated Hosts
• EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace
• Importing and Exporting Instances
• Understanding EC2 Instance Types, The Lifecycle of Instances
• Storage Options for EC2 Instances & Advanced EC2 Features
• Building an EC2 Windows instance & Linux Instance , Boot strapping with user-data, Setting up security, Security with Key Pairs
• Working with the Security Group
• Different IPs assigned to an EC2 , Assigning Elastic IPs
• Login/Access to the instance
• Creating your own custom AMI, Registering & Granting access to the AMI
• Placement groups
• EC2 instance protection
• Instance Roles
• Importing and Exporting Instances
• Elastic Network Interfaces(ENIs)
• Resources and Tags
• Accessing Meta-Data & use cases
• LAB- Deploying an EC2 Linux and EC2 Windows Instance, Security Groups, Monitoring and Reporting

AWS Storage Fundamentals

• High Level view of AWS Storage Solution
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Glacier, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon Cloudfront & AWS Storage Gateway
• EBS Volume Types, EBS Encryption and EBS Performance
• Instance Store volumes, Instance Stores Available on Instance Types and Instance Store Usage Scenarios
• Adding Instance Store Volumes to an AMI
• Optimizing Disk Performance
• Creating and deleting volumes
• Attaching and detaching volumes
• Resizing the volume size
• Creating snapshots
• Creating Volumes & AMIs from Snapshots
• Cross-Region snapshot copy & use cases
• Managing Instance Volumes Using EBS, EBS Snapshots and Replication
• LAB- AWS EBS- Creating and Deleting EBS Volume, Attaching & Detaching EBS Volume and Creating Snapshot etc.

AWS Simple Storage Service (S3)

• AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) Essentials, S3 Bucket/Object Versioning And LifeCycle Policies
• Moving Objects Into S3, Handling Bucket And Object Permissions, Accessing S3 Objects, Protecting Data In S3
• AWS S3 Concepts & Advanced S3 Features, Hosting A Website In S3
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Amazon CloudFront storage Solution
• Amazon Glacier – Archives, Vaults, Vaults Locks & Data Retrieval
• Amazon Glacier versus Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
• LifeCycling with S3 and Glacier
• Getting Data into AWS – Snowball and Transfer Acceleration
• Introduction to CloudFront
• CORS, Bucket Policies, ACLs, and Encryption
• LAB- S3 Bucket Policy and Versioning
• LAB- Enabling S3’s LifeCycle feature – Lifecycle Policies
• LAB- Creating A Static Hosting Website With S3

Amazon IAM (Identity And Access Management)

• Understand the security measures AWS provides and key concepts of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• IAM Best Practices For New Accounts, Building IAM Policies & Using IAM Roles with EC2
• Creation of user accounts, Setting up multi factor Authentication (MFA)
• Roles in IAM, Groups in IAM
• Delegation of permissions for users
• Creation of custom policies for delegation
• Using Identity Providers
• Cross-Account Access
• Account settings
• Credential Report
• Encryption – Key Management Service (KMS)
• LAB- IAM – Creating and Managing User Access, Creating Users, Roles, and Groups
• LAB- Logging IAM events on CloudTrail

Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) And Networking

• Introduction To VPC And AWS Networking, AWS Networking Architecture
• Building Your Own Custom VPC
• Subnets, Route Tables & Association, Internet Gateways (IGW)
• NATs Versus Bastion Hosts
• Network Access Control Lists (ACLs)
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Option Sets
• Elastic IP Addresses (EIPs), Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs)
• Endpoints & VPC Peering
• Security Groups, Network Access Control Lists (ACLs)
• Network Address Translation (NAT) Instances and NAT Gateways
• VPC Peering & VPC Flow Logs
• Virtual Private Gateways (VPGs), Customer Gateways (CGWs), and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
• VPC Networking, VPC Security
• VPC Access Methods & VPC Configuration, Extending The VPC To On-Premise Networks
• Integrate the VPC with On-Premise-Networks
• VPN overview & components
• LAB- Building a Virtual Private Cloud from Scratch & Securing Your VPC
• LAB- Creating a NAT Instance in a VPC
• LAB- Configuring VPC Peering & Routing Between VPCs

AWS Security Fundamentals

• Understanding AWS Security Measures
• AWS Shared Responsibility Model
• AWS Compliance Program
• AWS Global Infrastructure Security
• Physical and Environmental Security
• Layered Security, Security Groups & Network ACLs
• AWS Reports, Certifications, and Third-Party Attestations
• AWS Account Security Features
• AWS Credentials, Passwords
• Cloud Security Considerations & Security Best Practices for Clouds
• LAB- Security Group and Network ACLs
• LAB- Encrypting & Controlling Access to S3; Logging and Auditing Access and Actions

Securing Data on AWS

• Shared Responsibility Model
• Protecting Data at Rest
• Protecting Data in Transit
• Securing Your Operating Systems and Applications
• How to use IAM to keep your data secure
• AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (AWS MFA)
• LAB- MFA (Multifactor Authentication) on Amazon Web Services

Database Fundamentals for AWS

• Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Overview, Working With RDS
• Relational Database Service (RDS): Structure, Understanding RDS Multi-AZ Failover
• RDS Security Groups, Read Replicas with MySQL RDS Across Regions
• DB Instances, Selecting the DB-Engine, Configuring the Database Server and Creating your Database
• Setting up automatic backups, snapshots & restores
• Authorizing access to the DB with RDS Security Groups
• DB Instance Replication
• Security: Using IAM to Manage Access to Amazon RDS Resources
• RDS Limits
• DB Instance Life Cycle: Renaming a DB Instance
• Deleting or Rebooting a DB Instance
• Working with Storage Types
• Upgrading a DB Instance
• Working with Option Groups & DB Parameter Groups
• Working with Reserved DB Instances
• Monitoring
• Database Log Files
• DyamoDB and NoSQL, DynamoDB vs Amazon RDS Database
• LAB- Setting Up RDS, Multi-AZ, Backups, and Read Replicas
• LAB – Creating DynamoDB Tables

Understanding Backup Options

• Overview of Backup Services on AWS and Services that Include Backups
• Managing Backup And Disaster Recovery Processes,
• Quickly Recovering from Disasters
• S3 and RDS Backup Options, EBS Options, EC2 Backup Strategies
• LAB- S3, RDS Backup & EBS Options

Load Balancing with Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

• Introduction to ELB, Basic ELB concepts
• Internet-facing ELBs & VPC-facing ELBs
• Classic & App ELB types.
• Creating load balancer
• Load balancing protocols
• Listener Configuration
• Attach & Detach Subnets
• Security groups for the load balancer
• Configure health check for the load balancer
• Adding multiple instance in multiple availability zone (multi-AZ) to the load balancer
• LAB- Elastic Load Balancer Configurations for high availability
• LAB- SSL on Elastic Load Balancer

Auto Scaling

• What is auto scaling
• Auto scaling components
• Benefits of auto scaling
• Creating launch configuration, and its prerequisites.
• Auto-scaling policies
• Creating Auto Scaling Groups (ASG)
• Attach & Detach EC2 Instances in ASG
• On-demand scaling
• Using Auto scaling with Elastic Load balancer (ELB).
• Temporarily Removing Instances
• Shut Down Your Auto Scaling Process
• Monitoring Your Auto Scaling Instances
• Health Checks
• Getting Notifications When Your Auto Scaling Group Changes
• LAB- Configuration of auto scaling policies based on the Load on EC2 instances.

AWS’s Domain Name System

• Amazon Route 53 Overview
• Configuring Amazon Route 53 as Your DNS Service
• Domain Name System (DNS) & Concepts
• Steps Involved in Domain Name System (DNS) Resolution
• Record Types & Supported Record Types
• Registering a Domain Name and Configuring Amazon Route 53 as the DNS Service
• Domain Name System (DNS) Service
• Migrating DNS Service for an Existing Domain to Amazon Route 53
• Creating a Subdomain That Uses Amazon Route 53 without Migrating the Parent Domain
• Working with Public Hosted Zones
• Working with Private Hosted Zones
• Working with Resource Record Sets
• Health Checks and DNS Failover
• Creating, Updating, and Deleting Health Checks
• Amazon Route 53 Enables Resiliency
• Domain name management, Route 53 Web Request Handling, Route53 and DNS Failover
• Simple Routing Example
• Weighted and Latency-Based Routing
• Failover and Geo-Based Routing
• LAB- Configuring Route 53 from the AWS Management Console
• LAB- Route 53 Complex Configurations

CloudWatch

• 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
• LAB- Monitoring Events With CloudWatch

Working with Amazon CloudFront

• Amazon CloudFront Key Concepts And Overview
• Working with Web Distributions
• Working with Objects
• Request and Response Behaviour
• Serving Private Content through CloudFront
• Using an HTTPS Connection to Access Your Objects
• Using IAM to Control Access to CloudFront Resources
• CloudFront architectural considerations, Dynamic Content With CloudFront, Streaming Media With CloudFront
• Monitoring CloudFront with CloudWatch
• LAB- Creating A Multi-Region CloudFront Solution

Understand AWS management tools

• Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Trusted Advisor
• Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch and Trusted Advisor
• LAB- Configuring CloudWatch from the AWS Management Console

High Availability And Fault Tolerant Systems on AWS

• Designing highly available, cost -efficient, fault-tolerant, scalable systems, Disaster Recovery And Fail-over Strategies
• Implement DR fore systems based on RPO and RTO
• Implement Elasticity
• Scaling Vertically & Horizontally
• AutoScaling vs. Resizing
• Applying Auto Scaling And ELB To Create High Availability And Fault Tolerance
• Deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS
• LAB- Elastic Load Balancer With High Availability Hands On
• LAB- Configuring an Auto Scaling Application

Monitoring Performance and Availability

• Creating CloudWatch Alarms to Monitor Amazon EC2 Instances & EBS for Performance and Availability
• Creating CloudWatch Alarms to Monitor the Elastic Load Balancer for Performance and Availability
• Creating CloudWatch Alarms to Monitor the RDS for Performance and Availability

Troubleshooting

• EC2 Troubleshooting Scenarios
• VPC Troubleshooting Scenarios
• ELB Troubleshooting Scenarios
• Auto Scaling Troubleshooting Scenarios
• LAB- Troubleshooting Connectivity Issues

Application Services

• Introduction to the Simple Queue Service (SQS)
• Introduction to the Simple Notification Service (SNS)
• Hands-on with SNS
• Example of Using SQS and SNS
• Introduction to the Simple Workflow Service (SWF)

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