AWS Technical Essentials

Course Description:

The AWS Technical Essentials course introduces students to AWS platform terminology and concepts. The course will demonstrate the AWS management console navigation, AWS security measures and storage options. Various AWS components will be explored from a cost perspective. Design considerations for scalability, high availability, and security will be discussed. Finally, deploying to production and monitoring will be reviewed..

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Understanding Cloud Computing Basics
• Design Cloud Applications
• Design and Implement for Scalabilty
• Design and Implement for Availabilty
• Design and Implement for Security
• Prodcution Deployment and Live Rollout

Prerequisites:

• Before attending this course, students should have experience with system administration concepts, enterprise servers and general database management familiarity.

Section 1: CLOUD 101 – UNDERSTANDING THE BASICS OF AWS
What is cloud computing?
Public, private, and hybrid clouds
Cloud service models – IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
Setting up your AWS (Amazon Web Services) account
The AWS management console
Summary

Section 2: DESIGN CLOUD APPLICATIONS – AN ARCHITECT'S PERSPECTIVE
Multi-tier architecture
Design for multi-tenancy
Design for scale
Automating infrastructure
Design for failure
Design for parallel processing
Design for performance
Design for eventual consistency
Estimate your cloud computing costs
A typical e-commerce web application
Setting up your development environment
Summary

Section 3: AWS COMPONENTS, COST MODEL, AND APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS
AWS components
Optimize cloud infrastructure costs
Application development environments
Setting up the AWS infrastructure
Summary

Section 4: DESIGN FOR AND IMPLEMENTING SCALABILITY
Define scalability objectives
Design scalable application architectures
Leverage AWS infrastructure services for scalability
Set up auto scaling
Summary

Section 5: DESIGN FOR AND IMPLEMENTING HIGH AVAILABILITY
Define availability objectives
The nature of failures
Using AWS for disaster recovery
Setting up high availability
Summary

Section 6: DESIGN FOR AND IMPLEMENTING SECURITY
Define security objectives
Understanding security responsibilities
Best practices in implementing AWS security
Setting up security
Summary

Section 7: DEPLOYING TO PRODUCTION AND GOING LIVE
Managing infrastructure, deployments, and support at scale
Use CloudWatch for monitoring
Use AWS solutions for backup and archiving
Planning for production go-live activities
Setting up for production
Summary

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