AWS GameDay Prep Resources

Chaotic Commencement
AWS GameDay is an interactive team-based learning exercise designed to give
participants a chance to put their AWS skills to the test in a real-world, gamified, risk-free
environment. Most importantly, it is an extremely fun way to learn collaboratively.

For this version of the AWS GameDay, Chaotic Commencement, players are broken up into
teams, and given a starting architecture that they will then need to evolve throughout the day
in response to internal and external events. There is no one right answer; the path that GameDay
participants take is up to them, based on the AWS resources at their disposal in pre-packaged AWS accounts. This is a
completely hands-on opportunity to learn about AWS best practices, new AWS services, and AWS architecture patterns.

This guide presents learning resources that may help you in your preparation for your upcoming AWS GameDay. Feel free to
explore as much or as little of this content as you desire leading up to the GameDay. Additional resource repositories are
included at the end of this document for your continued learning.

Best of luck!

Learn the fundamentals of the AWS Cloud

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Overview of Amazon Web Services 2 hours Whitepaper »

AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials 6 hours Digital Training
Introduction to Cloud Adoption Framework 20 minutes Digital Training
AWS Well-Architected Framework 2 hours Webpage
Explore These AWS Services Which May Be Useful During Your GameDay

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Introduction to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 10 minutes Digital Training

Building a Modular and Scalable Virtual Network Architecture with Amazon VPC 1 hour Documentation
Subnets, Gateways, and Route Tables Explained 20 minutes Digital Training
Configuring and Deploying VPCs with Multiple Subnets 1 hour Digital Training
Introduction to AWS Auto Scaling 10 minutes Digital Training
What is Elastic Load Balancing? 20 minutes Documentation
Elastic Load Balancing 20 minutes Documentation
Introduction to Amazon Elastic Load Balancer - Application 15 minutes Digital Training
What is an Application Load Balancer? 20 minutes Documentation
Application Load Balancers 45 minutes Documentation
What is a Classic Load Balancer? 20 minutes Documentation
Create a Classic Load Balancer 1 hour Tutorial
Create a Classic Load Balancer with an HTTPS listener 1 hour Tutorial
Configure your Classic Load Balancer 30 minutes Documentation
Introduction to Amazon CloudWatch 10 minutes Digital Training
What Is Amazon CloudWatch? 45 minutes Documentation
Amazon ElastiCache Service Primer 20 minutes Digital Training
Building Resilient Real-Time Applications with Amazon ElastiCache for Redis 30 minutes Digital Training
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