AWS Essential Training for Developers

Introduction

• What is the best way to use AWS?
• How to choose AWS services
• Visualizing the cloud in the real world

1. On-Premises to AWS

• On-premises infrastructure
• Birth of the cloud: EC2 and S3
• Where in the world are your AWS services?
• Faster speeds with Local Zones and Wavelength Zones

2. AWS Essential Setup

• The AWS root account
• AWS Identity Center
• Creating a new user
• Break down the bill in AWS
• Setting a budget to save money

3. IaaS Compute

• Creating an EC2 instance
• Choosing the right EC2 instance type
• Creating a key pair
• Setting up a web server
• Stopping and starting vs. rebooting instances
• Right-sizing with EC2 autoscaling
• Creating backups with an AMI Snapshot
• Saving money in EC2
• Challenge: Restore an EC2 instance
• Solution: Restore an EC2 instance

4. IaaS Networking

• Using security groups as firewalls
• Editing security groups
• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
• Public and private subnets
• Internet and NAT gateways
• Static addresses with Elastic IPs
• Using VPNs to access private subnets
• Scaling with Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
• Creating an Application Load Balancer (ALB)
• Pointing a domain to your EC2s with Route 53
• Challenge: Add a server to your load balancer
• Solution: Add a server to your load balancer

5. IaaS Storage

• Hard drives with Elastic Block Store (EBS)
• Storing passwords with Secrets Manager
• NAS with Elastic File System (EFS)
• Web storage with Simple Storage Service (S3)
• Uploading a file to S3 from the AWS CLI
• IAM roles for EC2
• Using the SDK to create a file within S3
• Putting together all of the IAM resources
• Long-term storage with S3 Glacier
• Serving content faster with CloudFront

6. Database as a Service (DBaaS)

• What is database as a service (DBaaS)?
• Relational Database Service (RDS)
• Create an Aurora database
• NoSQL databases
• In-memory caches
• Big data databases
• Data Analytics in AWS
• Challenge: Aurora
• Solution: Aurora

7. Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Hosting web apps with Elastic Beanstalk
• Running containers on AWS
• Using Kubernetes with AWS
• Serverless functions with Lambda
• Create a Lambda function
• Challenge: Lambda function
• Solution: Lambda function

8. Application Integration

• Buffering data with a message queue
• EventBridge
• Designing backend APIs
• Managing long-running jobs

9. Software as a Service (SaaS)

• User authentication for your app
• Helpful machine learning services
• Artificial intelligence models and tools

10. DevOps with AWS

• What is DevOps?
• Continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD)
• Developer tools within AWS
• Infrastructure as Code with AWS
• Monitoring with CloudWatch
• Log monitoring with AWS
• DevOps using Machine Learning
• Challenge: Cloudwatch
• Solution: Cloudwatch

11. Security on AWS

• AWS Shield and firewalls with WAF
• Spot issues with Inspector, GuardDuty, and Macie
• Manage EC2 with Systems Manager
• Traceability with CloudTrail and Security Hub
• Investigate threats with AWS Detective

12. AWS the Right Way

• AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
• Keep in the know with AWS
• Getting help from AWS Support

Conclusion

• Check for unwanted charges
• AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification (CLF-C02)