AWS Technical Essentials

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• Individuals responsible for articulating the technical benefits of AWS services
• Individuals interested in learning how to get started with using AWS
• SysOps Administrators, Solution Architects and Developers interested in using AWS services

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Working knowledge of distributed systems
• Familiarity with general networking concepts
• Working knowledge of multi-tier architectures
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts

Day One

Module 1: AWS introduction and history

• AWS Global Infrastructure
• Demonstration: AWS Management Console

Module 2: Compute, network and storage services

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
• Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
• Demonstration: Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
• Hands-on lab: Build your VPC and launch a web server

Module 3: AWS Security, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Demonstration: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Module 4: Databases (RDS, DynamoDB)

• SQL and NoSQL databases
• Data storage considerations
• Hands-on lab: Build your database server and connect to it

Module 5: AWS elasticity and management tools

• Auto scaling
• Load balancing
• Cloud Watch
• Trusted Advisor
• Hands-on lab: Scale and load balance your architecture