Duration (in Hours) | 32 | Target Audience | Any IT professionals |
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Proficiency Level | Basic | Pre-requisites | Virtualization |
1.1 What is Cloud Computing
1.2 Cloud Service & Deployment Models
1.3 How AWS is the leader in the cloud domain
1.4 Various cloud computing products offered by AWS
1.5 Introduction to AWS S3, EC2, VPC, EBS, ELB, AMI
1.6 AWS architecture and the AWS Management Console, virtualization in AWS (Xen hypervisor)
1.7 What is auto-scaling
1.8 AWS EC2 best practices and cost involved.
Hands-on Exercise – Setting up of AWS account, how to launch an EC2 instance, the process of hosting a website and launching a Linux Virtual Machine using an AWS EC2 instance.
2.1 Introduction to EC2
2.2 Regions & Availability Zones(AZs)
2.3 Pre-EC2, EC2 instance types
2.4 Comparing Public IP and Elastic IP
2.5 Demonstrating how to launch an AWS EC2 instance
2.6 Introduction to AMIs, Creating and Copying an AMI
2.7 Introduction to EBS
2.8 EBS volume types
2.9 EBS Snapshots
2.10 Introduction to EFS
2.11 Instance tenancy- Reserved and Spot instances
2.12 Pricing and Design Patterns.
Hands-on Exercise –
1. Launching an EC2 instance
2. Creating an AMI of the launched instance
3. Copying the AMI to another region
4. Creating an EBS volume
5. Attaching the EBS volume with an instance
6. Taking backup of an EBS volume
7. Creating an EFS volume and mounting the EFS volume to two instances.
3.1 Introduction to Elastic Load Balancer
3.2 Types of ELB – Classic, Network and Application
3.3 Load balancer architecture
3.4 Cross-zone load balancing
3.5 Introduction to Auto Scaling, vertical and horizontal scaling, the lifecycle of Auto Scaling
3.6 Components of Auto Scaling, scaling options and policy, instance termination
3.7 Using load balancer with Auto Scaling
3.8 Pre-Route 53 – how DNS works
3.9 Routing policy, Route 53 terminologies, Pricing.
Hands-on Exercise –
1. Creating a Classic ELB
2. Creating an Application ELB
3. Creating an auto-scaling group
4. Configuring an auto-scaling group
5. Integrating ELB with Auto Scaling
6. Redirect traffic from domain name to ELB using Route 53.
4.1 What is Amazon VPC,
4.2 VPC as a networking layer for EC2,
4.3 IP address and CIDR notations,
4.4 Components of VPC – network interfaces, route tables, internet gateway, NAT,
4.5 Security in VPC – security groups and NACL, types of VPC, what is a subnet, VPC peering with scenarios, VPC endpoints, VPC pricing and design patterns.
Hands-on Exercise –
1. Creating a VPC and subnets,
2. Creating a 3 Tier architecture with security groups,
3. NACL, Internet gateway and NAT gateway,
4. Creating a complete VPC architecture.
5.1 Introduction to AWS storage
5.2 Pre-S3 – online cloud storage
5.3 API, S3 consistency models
5.4 Storage hierarchy, buckets in S3
5.5 Objects in S3, metadata and storage classes, object versioning, object lifecycle management, cross-region replication, data encryption, connecting using VPC endpoint, S3 pricing.
Hands-on Exercise –
1. Creating an S3 bucket
2. Uploading objects to the S3 bucket
3. Enabling object versioning in the S3 bucket
4. Setting up lifecycle management for only a few objects
5. Setting up lifecycle management for all objects with the same tag
6. Static website hosting using S3.
6.1 What is a database, types of databases, databases on AWS
6.2 Introduction to Amazon RDS
6.3 Multi-AZ deployments, features of RDS
6.4 Read replicas in RDS, reserved DB instances
6.5 RDS pricing and design patterns
6.6 Introduction to Amazon Aurora, benefits of Aurora, Aurora pricing and design patterns
6.7 Introduction to DynamoDB, components of DynamoDB, DynamoDB pricing and design patterns
6.8 What is Amazon Redshift, advantages of Redshift
6.9 What is ElastiCache, why ElastiCache.
Hands-on Exercise –
1. Launching a MySQL RDS instance
2. Modifying an RDS instance
3. Connecting to the DB instance from your machine
4. Creating a multi-az deployment
5. Create an Aurora DB cluster
6. Creating an Aurora replica
7. Creating a DynamoDB table.
8.1 Pre-IAM, why access management
8.2 Amazon Resource Name (ARN), IAM features
8.3 Multi-factor authentication (MFA) in IAM, JSON
8.4 IAM policies, IAM permissions, IAM roles, identity federation, pricing
8.5 Introduction to CloudWatch, metrics and namespaces, CloudWatch architecture, dashboards in CW, CloudWatch alarms, CloudWatch logs, pricing and design patterns
8.6 Introduction to CloudTrail, tracking API usage.
Hands-on Exercise –
1. Creating IAM users and a group
2. creating an IAM policy and attach it to the group
3. creating an IAM role
4. Setup MFA for a user
5. Creating a CloudWatch dashboard and add metrics
6. Create a CloudWatch alarm which triggers according to CPU Utilization of an EC2 instance
7. Creating a billing alarm
8. Creating a log group
9. Creating a trail.