AWS Technical Essentials

In this introductory course, you will learn about AWS products, services, and common solutions. You will learn the fundamentals of identifying AWS services so that you can make informed decisions about IT solutions based on your business requirements.

Objectives

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

Prerequisites

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

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)

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

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