Introduction to Cloud Computing

• Introduction to Cloud Computing
• Benefits of Cloud Computing
• Cloud Service Models
• Cloud Deployment Models
• Scaling & Types
• Cloud Computing Issues
• Security
• Costing Model
• SLA, Legal and compliance
• Cloud Interoperability Issue
• Migration

Virtualization Concepts

• Virtualization and cloud computing
• Types of virtualization
• Virtualization terminologies
• Hypervisor, types & features

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Introduction to AWS Cloud Computing
• Benefits of choosing AWS
• Other cloud platforms comparison
• Global infrastructure, Regions & Availability Zones
• Signing up for AWS
• AWS Free usage tier& support plans
• Management Console walkthrough

EC2 Instances

• Introduction to creating scalable instances using AWS EC2
• Instances & Types
• Pricing models
• Instance purchasing options
• Amazon Machine Images (AMI)
• Instance store & EBS Volumes
• Managing Volumes, adding additional volumes, modifying the root volume
• Troubleshooting issues with volumes, snapshots and AMIs
• Launching your first AWS Windows Server & Linux Instances
• Setting up security
• Firewall & Security Groups
• Choosing & Creating custom AMIs
• Snapshots & Recovery, snapshot scheduling
• Managing updates
• Usage reports & limits
• Creating a new AMI
• Deploying a new instance from the custom AMI
• Elastic IP, BYOIP
• Hibernating instances
• Key Pairs
• Load balancing, Application & network load balancing
• Creating an ALB web server
• Auto Scaling
• Troubleshooting Issues

AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)

• Introduction to AWS CLI
• Installation
• Connecting to your AWS account via CLI
• Other functionalities with CLI

Light Sail

• Difference between EC2 & Lightsail
• Advantages & Functionalities
• Available options on instances and AMIs
• Creating a instance & connecting to it
• Snapshots
• DNS records
• Elastic IPs
• Troubleshooting

Elastic Beanstalk

• Fundamentals
• Comparison with EC2, Lightsail & Elastic Beanstalk
• Hosting a sample application in EB
• Common issues & troubleshooting

Overview of Other Compute Services

• ECS (Elastic Container Service)
• EKS (Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes)
• Lambda

Storage

• Introduction to storage
• AWS Storage Tiers
• Use cases

Simple Storage Service (AWS S3)

• Buckets & Objects
• Encryption, Logging
• S3 durability and redundancy
• S3 Uploading Downloading
• S3 Permissions
• Hosting a static website in AWS S3
• Access Control Lists & Bucket Policies
• S3 Object Versioning
• S3 Lifecycle Policies
• Cross Region Replication
• EC2-S3 Integration
• Reduced Redundancy Storage, S3-IA
• S3 storage class analysis

S3 Glacier storage

• Introduction
• Putting & retrieving objects
• S3 Glacier Deep Archive

Instance Store & Elastic Block Storage (EBS) Volumes

• Difference & features
• Use cases & capacity limits
• Creating & Managing EBS volumes
• Delete EBS Volumes
• Attach, detach & extend EBS volumes
• Mounting and unmounting EBS volume
• Termination protection
• Troubleshooting & recovery

Elastic File System (EFS)

• Concepts of Network File System (NFS)
• Creating an EFS storage
• Difference between EFS and other storage options
• Mounting EFS
• Troubleshooting issues regarding permissions

Overview of Other Storage Services

• AWS FSx
• AWS Storage Gateway

AWS Database Services

Relational Database Service (RDS)

• Selecting the Database type
• Configuring & creating the database
• DB Security groups
• Snapshots
• Recovering a db instance from snapshot
• Configuring backups
• Connecting to the database

Dynamo DB

• Creating a dynamo db
• Advantages of using DynamoDB
• Configuring alarms
• Connecting to Dynamo DB

Other DB Services Overview

• Elasticache
• Neptune
• Redshift

Migration & Transfer

• AWS Server Migration Service
• AWS Database Migration Service
• Best Practices&Challenges

Identity access management (IAM)

• IAM introduction
• Importance of IAM
• Creating & managing Users and Groups
• Access Key & Secret Key
• Creating custom policies
• Applying policies
• Password Policy
• Sample Policies
• Roles

Other Security, Identity & Compliance Services

• AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)
• AWS Secrets Manager
• AWS Guard Duty
• AWS Inspector
• AWS Certificate Manager
• AWS Directory Service
• Web Application Firewall (WAF) & Shield

AWS Organizations

• Importance of creating and managing multiple accounts in a corporate scenario
• Creating an organization
• Adding OUs
• Billing & management

Cloud Formation

• Introduction to Infrastructure as a Code
• CF stacks & templates
• Creating an S3 buckets etc.
• Saving, managing & importing templates
• Updating & Versioning

Cloud Watch

• 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 Auto scaling

Autoscaling & Load Balancing

• Introduction to Load Balancing
• Types& scenarios
• Launch configuration
• Configuring a Load balanced web server
• Introduction to Autoscaling
• Configuring auto scaling with EC2
• Rules & Alarms
• Troubleshooting

CloudTrail

• Introduction to Logging
• Creating a trail
• Event History

Other Management & Governance Services

• AWS Systems Manager
• AWS Trusted Advisor
• AWS License Manager
• AWS Personal Health Dashboard

Cloud Front

• Use of cloud front
• Creating a cloud front distribution
• Hosting a website of cloud front distribution
• Invalidations
• Configuring origins and behaviors

AWS Route53

• DNS Concepts and Working
• Domain registration
• Configuring record set
• Configuring DNS with web servers & CDN
• Routing Tables
• Troubleshooting

AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

• What is VPC?
• VPC configuration
• Public & Private subnets
• Internet gateway & NAT gateway
• VPC security
• Elastic IP’s
• Inbound and outbound ACL’s
• Designing a VPC
• Gateways
• Routing Tables
• VPC Peering
• Best Practices

Application Integration Services

Simple Notification Service (SNS)

• What is SNS
• Creating a topic
• Create subscription

SQS
SWF

End User Computing

• WorkDocs
• WorkMail
• Workspaces

Other application services including kinesis, Cognito etc.

Billing & Cost Management

Designing highly available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, scalable Infrastructure

Best Security practices & DR