About AWS Training

About AWS:

Cloud hosted web sites and applications are the future of Information Technology. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform, offering compute power, database storage, content delivery, highly reliable, scalable, low-cost pay-for-what-you-use infrastructure platform on the cloud. AWS powers hundreds of thousands of businesses around the world and offers other functionality to help businesses scale and grow.

AWS course content:

Introduction to Cloud Computing

·         Introduction to cloud computing world

·         History

·         Cloud business models

·         Public, Private and Hybrid cloud models

·         Advantages of cloud computing

Overview

·         AWS Regions and Availability zones.

·         Tools to access services.

·         Overview of the console.

AWS ec2(elastic compute cloud)

·         Introduction to EC2.

·         Pricing models On-demand vs Reserved vs Spot instances.

·         Using Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) to create the instances.

·         Public vs Private Images.

·         Sharing Images to other accounts.

·         Logging into instances using key pairs.

·         Converting pem files to ppk.

·         Volumes and types.

·         Using snapshots for backup.

·         Increasing the size of the volumes.

·         Backup and restore process of the EC2 instances.

·         Adding network interfaces.

·         Assigning static IPs using Elastic IPs.

·         Control access to instances using Security Groups.

Elastic Load Balancer

·         Introduction to Elastic Load Balancing.

·         Creating ELB from Console.

·         Attaching instances to ELB.

·         Configuring Ports, Protocols and health checks.

·         Enabling sticky session.

·         Connection draining.

·         Enabling SSL Certificates for https transactions.

Cloud Watch

·         Introduction to CloudWatch monitoring service.

·         Monitoring CPU, Memory and network utilization of different resources.

·         Creating notifications.

Simple Notification Services

·         Introduction to SNS.

·         Subscribing to receive notifications.

·         Sending alerts using SNS.

Relational Database Service:

·         Introduction to Managed database.

·         Creating RDS instances using AWS console.

·         Choosing an RDS engine and version.

·         Public vs Private database instances.

·         Multi-AZ setup.

·         Backup using snapshots and point in restore.

·         Parameter Group.

·         Options Group.

·         Control access to instances using Security Groups.

Auto scaling:

·         Overview.

·         Creating launch configuration.

·         Creating auto-scaling group.

·         Auto-scaling policies.

AWS s3(simple storage service):

·         Introduction to Simple Storage Server (S3).

·         Storage options (default vs reduced redundancy vs Glacier).

·         Creating buckets using Console.

·         Uploading and downloading data to S3.

·         Building static websites using S3.

·         Enable version control on S3.

·         S3 access policies.

Storage(Glacier):

·         Introduction to Glacier.

·         Moving data from S3 to Glacier.

·         Setting archiving policies on S3.

AWS Cloud Front (Content Delivery Network Service):

·         Introduction to CloudFront.

·         Configure S3 backend for CloudFront.

·         Configure ELB backend from CloudFront.

·         Simple Email Services(SES)

·         Introduction to SES.

Identity Access Management (IAM):

·         Introduction to IAM.

·         Access controls using IAM.

·         Creating users, groups and roles.

·         Assigning policies.

·         Inline vs Managed policies.

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC):

·         Introduction.

·         Choosing a network design and CIDR.

·         Design a simple network.

·         Creating Subnets and setup routing as per the design.

·         Using IGW to enable internet access.

·         Access controls using Network ACLs. Network ACLs vs Security Groups.

·         Creating Private connections from data center to AWS.

·         Enabling VPC peering between VPCs.

Cloud Formation:

·         Introduction.

·         Understanding the template format.

·         Cloudformation designer.

·         Create a simple cloudformation template.

·         Managing dependencies.

·         Updating the existing stacks.

·         Intrinsic functions.

·         Pseudo parameters.

·         Updating cloudformation stacks.

·         Understanding event.

·         Cloudformer.

Using CLI:

·         Installing AWSCLI .

·         Installing CLI tools using rpm or pip.

·         Configuring credentials.

·         AWS CLI syntax.

·         Creating and managing resource using CLI.

Best Practices:

·         Cloud Optimization.

·         Cloud migration.

·         Using 3rd party tools for health and billing monitoring.