AMA14 – AWS Technical Essentials
AMA14 - AWS Technical Essentials
Course description
AWS Technical Essentials introduces you to essential AWS services and common solutions. The course covers the fundamental AWS concepts related to compute, database, storage, networking, monitoring, and security. You will start working in AWS through hands-on course experiences. The course covers the concepts necessary to increase your understanding of AWS services, so that you can make informed decisions about solutions that meet business requirements. Throughout the course, you will gain information on how to build, compare, and apply highly available, fault tolerant, scalable, and costeffective cloud solutions.
Activities
This course includes presentations, hands-on labs, demonstrations, videos, and knowledge checks.
Course 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
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Course outline
Course Introduction
Module 1: Introduction to Amazon Web Services
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)
Module 2: AWS Compute
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
Module 3: AWS Networking
Networking in AWS
Introduction to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
Amazon VPC routing
Amazon VPC security
Hands-On Lab: Create a VPC and Relaunch the Corporate Directory Application in Amazon
EC2
Module 4: AWS Storage
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
Module 5: Databases
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
Module 6: Monitoring, Optimization, and Serverless
Monitoring
Optimization
Alternate serverless employee directory application architecture
Hands-On Lab: Configure High Availability for Your Application
Module 7: Course Summary