AWS is the first course required for those seeking a career as a Cloud Consultant.
AWS Offers 3 certifcations - SysOps, Architect and Developer. There are 2 levels of certification
- AWS Overview
Provide users a history and background of AWS along with an overview of products and services that are offered.
Designing highly available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, scalable systems. The lesson will help users understand why designing cloud infrastructure is different than for traditional on-premise data centers and will cover AWS concepts, recommendations and best practices about how to build cloud systems.
- ·How to Design Cloud Services
- ·Planning and Designing
- ·Monitoring and Logging
- ·Hybrid IT architectures
- ·Practice Assignment: Designing Hybrid Storage
2. Identity & Access Management (IAM)
The lesson will provide users with information about -
- ·IAM Overview
- · IAM Policies
- · IAM Users
- · IAM Groups
- · IAM Roles
- · IAM best practices
- · Practice Assignment: Configuring IAM Access
- · Demos Included
- Creating an IAM Policy
- Creating an IAM User
- Creating an IAM Group
- Creating an IAM Role
3. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
The lesson will provide users with details of the following topics –
- ·Amazon VPC Overview ·Amazon VPC
- ·IP Addresses, ·Subnets
- ·Internet Gateway ·Route Tables
- ·NAT Devices ·Security Groups
- ·Network ACL’s ·VPC Best Practices
- ·Practice: Designing Custom VPC
- ·Demos Included:
- Creating a custom VPC
- Creating an Elastic IP Address
- Creating Subnets
- Creating Internet Gateways
- Creating Route Tables
- Creating a NAT Gateway
- Creating a Security Group
- Network ACL Overview
4. Elastic Cloud Compute-EC2
The lesson will help users understand what the EC2 service is and its many uses. Users will learn about –
- · Amazon EC2 Overview
- · Amazon Machine Images (AMI)
- · EC2 Instance Types
- · Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
- · EBS Snapshots
- · EC2 Instance Pricing
- · Placement Groups
- · Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
- · Auto Scaling
- · AWS Lambda
- · AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- · AWS Command Line Interface
- · EC2 Best Practices
- · AWS EC2 Costs
- · Practice: Configure ELB not started
- · Demos Included:
- Launch and connect to an EC2 Linux instance
- Launch & connect to an EC2 Windows instance
5. Create an AMI
- EC2 Instance Types
- Attaching EBS Volumes
- EBS and Raid 0 & Snapshots
- EC2 Spot Pricing
- Elastic Load Balancing
- Auto Scaling
- AWS CLI
6. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
The lesson will help users understand
- · Amazon S3 Overview
- · S3 Buckets
- · Version Control
- · Amazon S3 Lifecycle Management
- · CloudFront and CDNs
- · Security and Encryption
- · Import/Export & Snowball
- · Amazon S3 Best Practices
- · Amazon S3 Costs
- · Practice: Create an Amazon S3 bucket
- · Demos
- Create and access an Amazon S3 Bucket
- Amazon S3 Version Control
- Amazon S3 Lifecycle Management
- Amazon CloudFront
- Security and Encryption
- The lesson will provide users with an overview of the Amazon DNS service; Route 53. Users will be introduced to the concepts and uses of Route 53 and will learn how it can be used to host your own domain names.
- · Amazon Route 53 Overview
- · Amazon Route 53 and DNS
- · Route 53 Routing Policies
- · Route 53 best practices
- · Route 53 costs and prices
- · Practice: Amazon Route 53 Hosted Zone
- · Demo Included:
- Route 53 Hosted Zones Demo
8. The lesson will help users understand
- · Databases Overview
- · Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
- · AMI Databases
- · Amazon DynamoDB
- · Amazon Redshift
- · Amazon ElastiCache
- · Amazon Aurora
- · AWS Database Migration Services (DMS)
- · Databases best practices
- · Databases costs
- · Practice Assignment: Amazon RDS
9. Amazon RDS
Launching databases from an AMI
10. Application Services
The lesson will inform and demonstrate to users how Amazon’s suite of Application Services can be used to integrate your AWS resources ·Simple Queue Service-SQS
- ·Simple Workflow Service-SWF
- ·Simple Notification Service-SNS
- ·Elastic Transcoder
- ·Application Services best practices
- ·Application Services costs
- ·Practice Assignment: Amazon SNS
- ·Demos Included
- Amazon SNS
11. Security Practices for Optimum Cloud Deployment
The lesson will show users the measures that AWS takes to secure its cloud resources and what your responsibilities are in the AWS Shared Responsibility Model. The lesson will also demonstrate the following
- · AWS shared responsibility model
- · AWS platform compliance
- · AWS security attributes
- · AWS CloudTrail
- · AWS CloudWatch
- · Trusted Advisor
- · Incorporating common conventional security products
- · AWS CloudFormation and Design patterns
- · Practice Assignment: AWS CloudWatch
- · Demos Included:
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Trusted Advisor
- AWS CloudFormation
12. Disaster Recovery
The lesson will demonstrate to users the importance of Disaster Recovery and
- Overview of Disaster Recovery
- Using AWS products for Disaster Recovery
- Practice Assignment: Disaster Recovery
13. Troubleshooting
Where to look for assistance when they need AWS information and support
- ·AWS Support
- ·Typical AWS Problems
AWS Solutions Architect Exam
- ·Overview of AWS Solutions Architect Exam
- ·Study tips
- ·Review Topics