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Amazon EC2 Essential Training

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Get started learning about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), one of the most widely used cloud computing services out there today.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Learning Amazon EC2
  • What is Amazon EC2?
  • AWS Free Tier
  • AWS regions and availability zones
  • AWS Local Zones
  • Picking the right region: Best practices
1. Introduction to Amazon EC2
  • What makes up an EC2 instance?
  • Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
  • How to find a pre-defined AMI
  • How to create and restore an AMI
  • EC2 instance types
  • Key pairs
  • VPC and subnets
  • Security groups
  • Demo: Security groups
  • EBS volumes
  • Demo: EBS volumes
  • Advanced launch options: Part 1
  • Advanced launch options: Part 2
  • EC2 user data
  • Connect to your EC2 instance
  • Navigating the EC2 console
  • Navigating the EC2 dashboard
2. EC2 Deep Dive
  • EBS snapshots
  • Demo: EBS snapshots
  • Instance store
  • Elastic IP
  • Elastic network interface
  • Demo: Elastic network interface
  • Placement groups
  • Instance metadata
  • Attaching an IAM role
  • Launch templates
  • Security groups as source or destination
3. EC2 Purchasing Options
  • Introduction to EC2 purchasing options
  • On-demand instances and capacity reservations
  • Spot instances
  • Requesting spot instances
  • Reserved instances
  • Savings plans
  • Dedicated instances vs. dedicated hosts
  • Launching dedicated instances and dedicated hosts
Conclusion
  • Additional resources

Taught by

Shyam Raj

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