Notes

AWS COURSE CONTENT



• Introduction to Cloud Computing
• Why Cloud Computing?
• Benefits of Cloud Computing
• Types of Cloud Computing
• Public Cloud
• Private Cloud
• Hybrid Cloud
• Community Cloud
• Software as a Service
• Platform as a Service
• Horizontal vs vertical scaling
• Cloud Computing Issues
• Security
• Costing Model
What is virtualization?

• Virtualization and cloud computing
• Types of virtualizations
• Virtualization terminologies
• Hypervisor
• Benefits
• Vendors


AWS Platform
• Introduction to AWS Elastic computing
• Introduction to the AWS products
• Regions and Availability Zones
• Signing up for AWS
• AWS Free usage tier

• Introduction AWS management console


EC2 Instance
• Understanding AMI
• Launching your first AWS instance
• On-demand Instance pricing
• Reserved Instance pricing
• Spot instance pricing
• Setting up security
• Security groups
• Choosing & creating a new AMI
• Public and Private IP’s
• Deploying a new instance from the created AMI
• Key Pairs
• Elastic IP’s


Load Balancing
• Introduction to Scaling
• ELB (Elastic Load Balancer)
• Components and types of load balancing
Auto-scaling
• Get Started with Auto Scaling Using the Console
• Maintain a Fixed Number of Running EC2 Instances
• Dynamic Scaling
• The lifecycle of autoscaling
• Policies of autoscaling
EBS (Elastic Block Storage)

• Create EBS volumes
• Delete EBS Volumes
• Attach and detach EBS volumes
• Mounting and unmounting EBS volume
• Creating and deleting snapshots
• Creating volumes from snapshots S3(Simple Storage Service)


Storage in Cloud

• S3 durability and redundancy
• S3 Buckets
• S3 Uploading Downloading
• S3 Permissions
• S3 Object Versioning
• S3 Lifecycle Policies
• Storage Gateway
• Import Export
• S3 Transfer Acceleration
• Glacier storage
Cloud Front

• Use of cloud front
• Creating a cloud front distribution
• Hosting a website of cloud front distribution
• Implementing restrictions
• Configuring origins and behaviors
Route53
• Creating Zones
• Hosting a website
• Understanding routing policies

Identity Access Management (IAM)

• Creating Users and Groups
• Applying policies
• Password Policy
• Roles
AWS Security Management
• Security Practices for Cloud Deployment
• AWS Responsibilities and Securities
• Cloud Trail
• Trust advisor
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)


• Introduction to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
• VPC Advantages
• Default and Non-default VPC
• Components of VPC
• Direct Connect
• Describe, create, and manage Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
• Amazon VPC, Private Subnet, and Public Subnet
• AWS Networking, Security Groups, and Network ACLs
• Configuration and management of VPN connectivity
• Subnet and Subnet Mask


Relational Database Service (RDS)
• Introduction to RDS
• Different database services of AWS: Amazon RDS, Dynamo DB, Redshift etc.
• Configuring the database
• Configuring backups
• Configuring the maintenance windows
• Connecting to the database
Dynamo DB

• Creating a dynamo dB
• Configuring alarms
• Adding data manually


Management Tools
• Cloud watch dashboard
• Configuring Monitoring services
• Setting thresholds
• Configuring actions
• Creating a cloud watch alarm
• Getting statistics for ec2 instances
• Monitoring other AWS services
• Configuring Notifications
• Integrating cloud watch with Autoscaling
• Cloud Trail
Application Services
• What is SNS
• Creating a topic
• Create subscription
• Subscribed to the subscription
• SQS
• SES
• Lambda and Elastic Beanstalk

AWS Troubleshooting
• Troubleshooting EC2 instance
• Troubleshooting using Cloud watch
• Troubleshooting using ELB
• Troubleshooting by using Cloud trail
• Troubleshooting by using Cloud front
Backup and Disaster Recovery
• How to manage Disaster Recovery and Backups
• Best Practice for DR and Backups
• AWS High Availability Design