Amazon Web Services

AWS Technical Essentials

About the Course: AWS Technical Essentials

AWS Technical Essentials introduces you to AWS products, services, and common solutions. It provides you with fundamentals to become more proficient in identifying AWS services so that you can make informed decisions about IT solutions based on your business requirements and get started working on AWS. 

Audience Profile

This course is intended primarily for: 

  • Individuals responsible for articulating the technical benefits of AWS services to customers. 
  • Individuals interested in learning how to get started with using AWS 
  • SysOps administrators, Solution Architects and developers interested in using AWS services. 

 

Course Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

  • Recognise 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. 

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1 Days

Online/Instructor Led

AW-ESS

Modules

  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Monitoring
  • Optimisation
  • Alternate serverless employee directory application architecture
  • Hands-On Lab: Configure High Availability for Your Application

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