Summary

This Instructor led comprehensive course (AWS Solutions Architect - Associate & SysOps Administrator)
designed to show how to setup and run Cloud services in Amazon Web Services all the way through to
IaaS with hands-on experience on AWS Public cloud.

This course provides a strong foundation for implementing and designing cloud services.

Objectives
Objectives of the course

 Compute (EC2, Systems Manager)

 Storage (S3, EBS, EFS and FSx)
 Database (RDS, DMS and Redshift)
 Network and Content Delivery (Route53, VPC and CloudFront)
 Management Tools (CloudWatch, Cloud Formation and AWS Directory Services)
 Security & Identity Compliance (IAM, CloudTrail Trusted Advisor, Config and Inspector)
 Application Services (SNS, SQS and SES)
 Migration Tools (Database Migration Service, Server Migration Service and AWS Storage
gateway)
 DevOps tools (Code Commit, Code Build, Code Deploy, Code Pipeline, Cloud Formation and
lambda)
Prerequisites
 Absolute Beginners. No prior AWS experience is necessary.
 Previous System Administration/ Development knowledge would be added advantage.
 System Administrators Interested in Deploying Applications on AWS
 Cloud Computing enthusiasts
Setup requirements
 Need to set up an AWS Account .
(Most of the Services comes with AWS free tier eligibility)
 Windows: Putty and Web Browser with Internet connectivity.
 Linux/Mac: Default Terminal
 AWS Course Content
Introduction to Cloud Computing  S3 – Standard
 S3 – IA / OneZone – IA
 Introduction to cloud computing  Reduced Redundancy Storage
 Essential Characteristics of Cloud  Intelligent Tier
Computing  Glacier
 Service Models in Cloud computing  Versioning
 Public Cloud  Access Control Lists
 Private Cloud  Cross-region replication
 Hybrid Cloud  S3 storage automation with Life Cycle
 Community Cloud Management
Deployment models in Cloud Computing  Security and Encryption using KMS
 SaaS (Software as a Service)  KMS Key management Service
 PaaS (Platform as a Service)  S3 Static Website hosting
 IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)  Events configuration on S3 buckets
 Introduction to AWS using SNS
 AWS Global Infrastructure  S3 Data management using 3rd Party
 AWS Account creation applications.
 AWS Free tier overview  S3 Cross Account Access
 Creating Billing Alarm.  S3 MFA Delete
 AWS S3 Glacier and Data Retrievals
Identity Access Management (IAM)
 Object Lock
 Root User  AWS Pre-Sign URLs
 IAM user  Transfer Acceleration
 Multi Factor Authentication for Users  Custom bucket Policies
 IAM Password Policies  S3 Metrics
 Access Key ID and Secret Access Key  AWS Import / Export
rotations  Snowball Vs Snowball Edge Vs
 AWS Managed Policies SnowMobile
 Customer Managed Policies.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
 AWS Policy Simulator
 EC2 Introduction
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
 EC2 Vs Traditional Computing
 Object based storage Vs File System  EC2 Instance Types
Storage
 S3 Introduction  On-Demand Instances
 Storage Classes  Reserved Instances
  Spot Instance  EC2 Vertical Scaling & Horizontal
 Dedicated tenancy Vs Shared tenancy Scaling.
 EC2 Instance isolation architecture ElasticLoad Balancer
 EC2 Instance Life-Cycle  Classic ELB
 Launching a Windows Instance  Application ELB
 Launching a Linux Instance  Network ELB
 Elastic IP Address  Listeners
 Elastic Network Interfaces  Configuring Load balancers
 Security Groups  Sticky sessions
 Instance Store Volumes  Access Log Creation
 EBS Volumes  CloudWatch Alarms
 GP2, iO1, Magnetic, ST1 and  Auto Scaling Groups
SC1  Auto Scaling Scenarios
 Creating Encrypted Volumes  Dynamic Scaling
 Snapshots  Manual Scaling
 Snapshot Lifecycle Manager  Scheduled Scaling
 Automating Snapshots using  ASG Components
Cloudwatch Events  Elastic File System
 EC2 Instance Images  AWS FSx
 Golden AMI  CloudWatch overview.
 Creating customized Amazon Machine  AWS Command Line Interface.
Images  Configuring CLI on Windows and Linux
instances.
(Linux Session:1)  CLI with Visual Studio integration.
 CLI with Packer.
 Linux Installation
 CLI with WinScp and S3 browser.
 Basic Commands.
 EC2 Roles
 File Folder Permissions
 AWS Systems Manager
 User Management
 Run Command and AWS Automation
with SSM
(Linux Session: 2)
 AWS Lightsail
 Apache & Nginix Installation  Elastic Beanstalk
 Creating custom user for logon  RAID Overview and RAID Configurations
 Volumes on Linux  Placement Groups
 Images on Linux
Amazon Route53 and Domain Name
 User Data
System(DNS)
 Metadata
 Generating custom Public Key and  What is DNS
Private keys
 How DNS works
 DNS Record types
  Hosted Zone Creation and NS  Database Backup and Recovery
configuration  Point in time Recovery options.
 Domain Name Mapping to AWS  Launching a MySQL RDS Instances
Resources.  Multi-AZ Use cases and Configuration
 Routing Policies  Read ReplicasUse cases and
 Simple Routing Configuration
 Weighted Routing  Amazon Aurora Infrastructure
 Latency Routing  DynamoDB table creation
 Failover Routing  DynamoDB access policy creation
 Geolocation Routing  Amazon DynameDB (DAX) overview
 Multi Value Routing  Amazon Redshift
 Hosting website using routing Policies.  Elastichache
 Database Migration Service
Amazon Virtual Private Clod (VPC)
 Schema conversion tool
 Networking Basics.
Security Options
 IPv4 Classes
 Public IP Vs Private IP  CloudTrail
 Subnets
 AWS Config
 NAT
 Key Management Services
 VPC Basics
 AWS Web Application Firewall
 Default VPC
 AWS Shield
 Custom VPC
 AWS Certificate Manager
 Creating custom VPC with custom
 AWS Inspector
Subnets
 AWS Trusted Advisor
 Route Table
 CloudFront configuration
 Internet gateway
 Origin as S3
 NAT Instance Vs NAT Gateway
 Origin as ELB
 Configuring NAT Instance
 Geo Restrictions
 Configuring NAT gateway
 Directory Services and Adding EC2
 Network ACLs to Block traffic.
instance to Domain
 VPC Peering
 AD Connector with On-Premise Active
 S3 Endpoint for Private Subnets
Directory.
 VPN Configuration using OpenVPN.
 Flowlog creation to S3 Application Services

Databases  Simple Email Service

 Simple Queue Service
 Databases introduction.  Simple Notification Service
 Traditional DB Vs EC2 hosted Database  Message Lifecycle
Vs RDS
 Long Polling
 Launching a MSSQL RDS Instances
  AWS TCO Calculator and Simple  CI/CD Configuration
Monthly calculator  Code Pipeline
 Amazon SWF  Code Commit
 Workflows  Code Build
 Object Identifiers  Code Deploy
 Workflow Execution Closure  Packer and Terraform
 Lifecycle of a Workflow Execution  Lambda
 Cloud Formation
Amazon ElastiCache
Hybrid Cloud Scenarios
 Introduction
 In-Memory Caching  Nagios
 Amazon ElastiCache  SMS - Server Migration Service
 AWS DataSync
 Scaling
 AWS Backup
 Nodes and Clusters
 AWS Storage Gateway
 Access Control
 Memcached Auto Discovery Amazon White Papers review
 Data Access Patterns
Quiz and Scenario based questions discussion
DevOps Tools
Resume Key Points and AWS Certifications
 What is DevOps in Cloud overview
 CI/CD overview
AWS End-to-End infrastructure overview