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AWS Essential Training for Administrators

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Manage AWS with confidence. This course covers the essential tasks for cloud admins, including identity and access, security and compliance, storage, cost control, and monitoring.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • AWS essential training for admins
1. Controlling Access
  • IAM users and groups
  • IAM policies
  • Permissions boundaries
  • Permissions boundary configuration
  • Service-to-service communication with IAM roles
  • Cross-account access with IAM roles
  • IAM best practices
2. Managing Compute
  • Building Amazon Machine Images
  • Configuring EBS volumes
  • EC2 instance advanced options
  • Connect to the EC2 instance
  • Elastic IP and elastic network interface
  • Securing with security groups
  • Controlling access with network ACLs
  • Using launch templates
  • EC2 purchasing options
  • Troubleshooting EC2
3. Storing Data
  • Storing with Amazon S3
  • Configure an S3 bucket
  • Archiving with S3 Glacier
  • Sharing files with Amazon EFS
  • Exploring other storage options: FSx
  • Exploring other storage options: Storage Gateway
  • Transferring data with AWS Snow Family
  • Backing up with AWS Backup
4. Monitoring Activity
  • Monitoring with CloudWatch
  • Logging with CloudTrail
  • Responding with EventBridge
5. Protecting Systems
  • Access Analyzer
  • Securing keys and secrets
  • Detecting threats with Amazon GuardDuty
  • Protecting sensitive data with Amazon Macie
  • Centralizing security with AWS Security Hub
  • Managing SSL certificates with AWS Certificate Manager
6. Management and Compliance
  • Organizing multiple accounts with AWS Organizations
  • Service control policies
  • Setting up AWS Control Tower
  • Single sign-on with Identity Center
  • AWS Service Catalog
  • Sharing with AWS Resource Access Manager
  • Optimizing with AWS Trusted Advisor
  • Tracking compliance with AWS Config
  • AWS Systems Manager
  • Auditing with AWS Audit Manager
  • Management best practices
7. Controlling Cost
  • Estimating costs with AWS Pricing Calculator
  • Cost Explorer
  • Setting AWS budgets
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Shyam Raj

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