Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS Technical Essentials
A hands-on technical introduction to AWS.
1 dayFoundation9 modulesAWS AI Practitioner Foundational
About this course
A hands-on technical introduction to AWS. You will work with EC2, storage, networking, IAM, databases such as RDS and DynamoDB, and the tools that keep workloads elastic and manageable.
What you'll learn
- Recognize terminology and concepts as they relate to the AWS platform and navigate the AWS Management Console.
- Understand the foundational services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS).
- Understand the security measures AWS provides and key concepts of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).
- Understand AWS database services, including Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).
- Understand AWS management tools, including Auto Scaling, Amazon CloudWatch, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and AWS Trusted Advisor.
Curriculum
9 modules
- Overview of Amazon Web Services and its evolution
- AWS Global Infrastructure
- Demo: AWS Management Console
- Overview of AWS storage services
- Introduction to Amazon EBS
- Create and manage Amazon S3 buckets and objects
- Introduction to Amazon EC2, VPC, S3, and EBS
- Demo: Amazon S3
- Hands-on Lab: Build your own VPC and launch a web server
- AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) concepts
- Demo: Setting up IAM roles and policies
- Overview of compute and networking options
- Describe Amazon VPC and EC2
- Launch an EC2 instance
- Use Amazon EBS with EC2
- Introduction to Amazon DynamoDB and RDS
- Understand use cases and architecture
- Launch a database instance with RDS
- SQL vs NoSQL in AWS
- Data storage considerations
- Hands-on Lab: Build a database server and connect to it
- Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
- Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch
- Introduction to AWS Trusted Advisor
- Hands-on Lab: Scale and load balance your architecture
- Understand AWS CloudFormation
- Use CloudWatch for metrics and alarms
- Revisit IAM for user and service-level access
Who it's for
IT professionals, developers and administrators starting technical work on AWS.
Before you start
- Working knowledge of distributed systems
- Familiarity with general networking concepts
- Working knowledge of multi-tier architectures
- Familiarity with cloud computing concepts
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