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AWS Essential Training for Architects

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Explore AWS from the architect’s perspective, focusing on the foundations you need to build scalable and reliable cloud-based application architectures.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Amazon Web Services essentials
1. Cloud Concepts
  • Cloud services
  • Cloud benefits
  • Cloud elasticity
  • Cloud constraints
  • Cloud administration
2. Cloud Practices
  • Design for failure
  • Implement elasticity
  • Decouple your components
  • Optimize for performance
  • Keep things secure
  • Optimize for cost
3. Keep Things Secure
  • The shared security model
  • IAM: Master account
  • Creating a new AWS account
  • IAM: Groups, roles, and permissions
  • Creating a new user
  • Creating a key pair
  • Security groups
  • Creating a security group
  • VPC
4. Designing for Failure
  • Virtual servers (EC2) and Elastic IP
  • Regions and Availability Zones
  • The Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
  • Understanding bootstrapping
  • Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
  • Launching a new EC2 instance
  • Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
  • Setting up an ELB
  • Connecting to the new server via HTTP
  • Connecting to the instance via SSH
  • Relational Database Service (RDS)
  • Create a MySQL RDS database
5. Implement Elasticity/Automate Infrastructure
  • Creating a custom AMI
  • Autoscaling
  • Cloud monitoring (CloudWatch)
  • Setting up Auto Scaling: Part 1
  • Setting up Auto Scaling: Part 2
  • Testing the Auto Scaling
  • Elastic Beanstalk
  • Use Elastic Beanstalk: Part 1
  • Use Elastic Beanstalk: Part 2
  • OpsWorks
  • CloudFormation and CloudFormer
  • CodeDeploy
6. Further Optimize for Performance
  • Caching: AWS Elasticache
  • Caching: AWS CloudFront
  • Search: AWS CloudSearch
7. Going Serverless
  • S3 and Glacier
  • Use S3 for web application hosting
  • Serverless architectures: API Gateway
  • Serverless architectures: AWS Lambda
  • Lambda and the Gateway API
  • Scalable NoSQL data store (DynamoDB)
  • Creating a DynamoDB table
  • Deploy the API and test the application
8. Additional Services for Decoupling Components
  • Simple Queue Service (SQS)
  • Simple Workflow Service (SWF)
  • Simple Notification Service (SNS)
9. Optimize for Cost
  • Keeping tabs on the tab
  • Matching supply with demand
  • Utilizing cost effective resources
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Jeff Winesett

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