USF Fall 2017 Cloud Computing

Explore cloud computing fundamentals and advanced AWS services in this comprehensive 13-hour course. Learn to set up and manage Ubuntu and Windows servers on EC2, master Linux command-line skills, and deploy LAMP stacks. Dive into CloudFormation for infrastructure automation, utilize AWS Rekognition for facial detection, and develop serverless applications with Lambda and Chalice. Create Alexa skills using Flask-Ask, design secure network architectures with VPC and OpenVPN, and process big data with Elastic MapReduce. Gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge cloud technologies and services to enhance your cloud computing expertise.

Syllabus

Running Ubuntu 16.04 on AWS EC2, Intro to Linux, and LAMP setup.
More Linux Command Line, Running a Windows 2012 Server in AWS, RDP to EC2 Ubuntu.
AWS Amazon Linux, Intro to CloudFormation including Ubuntu.
Cloud Formation Mappings & cfn-init.
AWS CloudFormation helper scripts with update.
Using AWS Rekognition from Python.
Detecting Faces Using Rekognition and Highlighting the Faces with Pillow.
AWS Lambda with SMS messaging and Rekognition in Python.
Using Chalice to Build a Text-to-Speech Service Using Polly.
Building a Python Alexa Skill using Flask-Ask.
AWS VPC with Public and Private Subnets, NAT Instance/Bastion Host.
Using OpenVPN in AWS.
AWS Elastic Map Reduce using MrJob.