AWS Training in Toronto

3.1 Getting Started with the Elastic Load Balancer

3.2 Understand the Types of Elastic Load Balancer – Network, Application, and Gateway 

3.3 How does the Elastic Load Balancer architecture work? 

3.4 Working of Cross-zone Load Balancing

3.5 Understand the concepts of Auto Scaling, vertical and horizontal scaling, and the lifecycle of Auto Scaling

3.6 Understand the components of Auto Scaling, scaling options, and policy, instance termination

3.7 Working with Auto Scaling using the load balancer

3.8 Exploring the work of Domain Name Server and Pre-Route 53 

3.9 Understand the concepts: Routing policy, Route 53 terminologies, Pricing

Hands-on Exercise –

1. Setting up a Network Elastic Load Balancer
2. Creating an Application Elastic Load Balancer
3. Launching an Auto Scaling group of EC2 Instances 
4. Configuring an Auto Scaling group for high availability 
5. Integrating Elastic Load Balancer with Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances
6. Using Route 53 and rerouting traffic from the domain name server to the Elastic Load Balancer.

4.1 Understanding the Isolated Amazon Virtual Private Cloud?

4.2 Networking layer architecture in VPC for an EC2

4.3 Understanding the concepts of IP address and CIDR notations

4.4 Exploring the various Components of VPC – Network interfaces, route tables, internet gateway, NAT gateway

4.5 Cloud Security in Virtual Private Cloud – Security groups and NACL

4.6 Types of Virtual Private Cloud

4.7 What is a subnet, VPC peering with scenarios, 

4.8 Understanding the working of VPC endpoints, VPC pricing, and design patterns

Hands-on Exercise –

1. Configure and launch the VPC and subnets,
2. Design and create a 3 Tier architecture with security groups
3. Applying NACL, Internet gateway, and NAT gateway in VPC architecture
4. Configure and launch a complete VPC architecture using the Network interfaces, route tables, internet gateway, NAT gateway

5.1 Getting started with the AWS storage and Simple storage service

5.2  Learn a Pre-S3 – cloud storage

5.3 Learn an API, S3 consistency models

5.4 Understand the hierarchy of storage and the usage of buckets in S3

5.5 What are Objects in S3, metadata and storage classes, 

5.6 How Object Versioning Works in S3

5.7 Managing the object lifecycle, cross-region replication

5.8 Understanding the storage concepts: Data encryption, connecting using a VPC endpoint, S3 pricing.

Hands-on Exercise –

1. Launch a Unique S3 Bucket Name
2. Creating and Uploading objects into the S3 bucket
3. Performing object versioning in the S3 bucket
4. Implementing lifecycle management for a few objects. 
5. Using the same tag to set up lifecycle management for all objects
6. Hosting up a Static website using a simple storage service.

6.1 Define database, What are the types of databases?

6.2 Exploring the databases services on AWS

6.3 Understand the workings of Amazon Relational Databases Services

6.4 Configuring and launching an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployment, 

6.5 What are the Features of Amazon Relational Databases Services?

6.6 Understand the concepts of Read replicas in RDS and reserved DB instances

6.7 Overview of RDS pricing and design patterns

6.8 Exploring the Amazon Aurora, benefits of Aurora, pricing of Aurora, and its design patterns

6.9 Introduction to DynamoDB, components of DynamoDB, DynamoDB pricing, and design patterns

6.10 Understand the workings of Amazon Redshift, and list the advantages of Redshift.

6.11 Explore the features and workings of Amazon ElastiCache

Hands-on Exercise –

1. Configure and launch a MySQL Amazon Relational Databases Services instance
2. Configure and Modify an Amazon Relational Databases Services DB instance
3. Launch and Connect to the DB instance from your local server machine
4. Creating and managing a multi-az deployment
5. Configure and launch an Aurora DB cluster
6. Configure and launch an Aurora replica
7. Configure and manage a DynamoDB table.

7.1 Getting Started with the CloudFormation as IaC

7.2 Understand the CloudFormation components

7.3 Working on CloudFormation templates

7.4 Learn the concept of Infrastructure-as-a-code

7.5 Understand the Functions and Pseudo Parameters

7.6 Understanding the Simple Notification Service and the Working of SNS 

7.7 Understanding the Simple Email Service and the Working of SES 

7.8 Understanding the Simple Queue Service and the Working of SQS 

Hands-on Exercise –

1. Deploying the CloudFormation stack
2. Launching a t2.micro using CloudFormation
3. Deploying the EC2 instance using CloudFormation
4. Implementing CloudFormation for the automation of architectural deployment 
5. Setting up a Simple Notification Service topic, creating a subscription within the topic
6. Setting up a Simple Email Service and sending emails
7. Setting up a Simple Queue Service queue and sending a sample message.

8.1 Pre-IAM, why access management

8.2 What is Amazon Resource Name (ARN)?  , What are the IAM features?

8.3 Using Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) in IAM, JSON

8.4 Working with the IAM policies, IAM permissions, IAM roles, identity federation, and pricing

8.5 Working with AWS monitoring service CloudWatch, 

8.6 Understanding CloudWatch concepts metrics and namespaces, CloudWatch architecture, dashboards in CW, CloudWatch alarms, CloudWatch logs, pricing, and design patterns

8.6 Understanding the work of CloudTrail, tracking API usage.

Hands-on Exercise –

1. Configure and launch IAM users and a group
2. Configure and launch an IAM policy and attach it to the group
3. Configure and launch an IAM role
4. Setting up Multi-Factor Authentication for a user
5. Configure and launch a CloudWatch dashboard and create metrics
6. Configure and launch a CloudWatch alarm that triggers according to the CPU Utilization of an EC2 instance
7. Setting up a billing alarm
8. Configure and manage a log group
9. Setting up cloudtrails and managing log groups.

9.1 Getting Started with the AWS Lambda – Serverless Compute

9.2 How does AWS Lambda differ from Elastic Cloud Computing?

9.3 What are the benefits and limitations of AWS Lambda?

9.4 What is the function of AWS Lambda?

9.5 Learn the AWS Lambda concepts and its use cases 

9.6 Integrating and managing S3 with AWS Lambda

9.7 Getting Started with the Elastic Beanstalk, 

9.8 Working of Elastic Beanstalk, 

9.9 Learn the AWS Elastic Beanstalk concepts and Elastic Beanstalk pricing

9.10 Explore Configuration Management?

9.11 How does AWS OpsWorks work? , What are the benefits of AWS OpsWorks?

9.12 Compare the difference between CloudFormation and OpsWorksservices in OpsWorks,

9.13 Understanding the concepts of AWS OpsWorks Stacks and OpsWorks pricing.

Hands-on Exercise –

1. Configure and launch the Lambda function
2. Setting up AWS Lambda triggers and destinations
3. Configure and launch an AWS Elastic Beanstalk application
4. Upload and manage a new version of the application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5. Create and launch a stack in OpsWorks
6. Create and launch an instance using OpsWorks and automatically install the application.

10.1 Understanding the working of Cloud Migration

10.2 What is the significance of migration?

10.3 Elaborate the Migration strategy in Amazon Web Services, 

10.4 Explain the 6 R’s migration strategy

10.5 Learn about migration of Virtual machine, migrating a local VM onto the AWS cloud server

10.6 Understanding the working of Migrating databases using Database Migration Service (DMS)

10.7 How to Migrate a Local Database to Relational Database Service

10.8 Migrating an on-premises database server to a Relational Database Service using Database Migration Service (DMS), and other migration services.

11.1 Essential principles for building a robust and efficient AWS Well-Architected Framework 

11.2 Architecting and Designing of fault-Tolerance and high-availability architecture

11.3 Selecting the Appropriate Resilient Storage

11.4 Mechanism for design decoupling using AWS services

11.5 Architecting and Designing a Multi-tier Architecture Solution

11.6 Design and implement Disaster recovery solution

11.7 Architecting and Designing Scalable and Elastic Solutions.

12.1 What is the DevOps methodology?

12.2 Getting Started with AWS DevOps,

12.3 Understanding the working of AWS Developer tools – CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy

12.4 Understanding the working of AWS Developer tools – CodePipeline, integrating GitHub with CodePipeline

12.5 Designing and implementing a DevOps lifecycle using AWS DevOps tools.

13.1 Understanding the FSx

13.2 What are the Types of FSx? and FSx for Windows server

13.3 Elaborate the working of FSx for Windows File Server

13.4 FSx for Lustre and its Use Cases

13.5 Working of Automatic Failover Process

13.6 Supported clients and access methods

13.7 What is a Global Accelerator?

13.8 How does Global Accelerator work? Listeners and Endpoints

13.9 What are AWS organizations?

13.10 Features of AWS Organizations, Managing Multiple Accounts

13.11 Understand the concepts of ENIs, ENAs, and EFAs. Working with network interfaces

13.12 Work with the upgraded networking with ENA, EFA with MPI, and Monitoring an EFA

Hands-on Exercise:

1. Configure and Launch a shared FSx file system between two Windows instances
2. Using ENI to access a single instance with several Elastic
3. Working with Global Accelerator to map instances from 2 regions into one domain name
4. Enabling enhanced networking on an Ubuntu machine

14.1 Getting Started with Containers and Container Orchestration

14.2 Working with the Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)

14.3 Understanding concepts of Amazon Elastic Container Service ECS

14.4 Understanding concepts of ECS Launch Types and Use Cases

14.5 What is AWS Fargate?

Hands-on Exercise:

1. Working with ECR and Pushing An Image 
2. Hosting a Website using ECS
3. Create and deploy an EKS Cluster

15.1 Guidance for clearing the exam, most probable interview questions, and other helpful tips for clearing the exam and interview.