AWS Technical Essentials Training

2.1 What is Amazon VPC?
2.2 VPC as a networking layer for EC2
2.3 IP address and CIDR notations
2.4 Components of VPC: Network interfaces, route tables, internet gateway, and NAT
2.5 Security in VPC: Security groups and NACL, types of VPC, subnets, VPC peering with scenarios, VPC endpoints, and VPC pricing and design patterns

Hands-on Exercise:

1. Creating a VPC and subnets
2. Creating a 3-tier architecture with security groups
3. NACL, the Internet gateway, and the NAT gateway
4. Creating a complete VPC architecture

3.1 Introduction to AWS storage
3.2 Pre-S3: Online cloud storage
3.3 API and S3 consistency models
3.4 Storage hierarchy and buckets in S3
3.5 Objects in S3, metadata and storage classes, object versioning, object lifecycle management, cross-region replication, data encryption, connecting using VPC endpoint, and S3 pricing
3.6 Introduction to EBS
3.7 EBS volume types
3.8 EBS snapshots
3.9 Introduction to EFS
3.10 Instance tenancy: Reserved and spot instances
3.11 Pricing and design patterns

Hands-on Exercise:

1. Creating an S3 bucket
2. Uploading objects to the S3 bucket
3. Enabling object versioning in the S3 bucket
4. Setting up lifecycle management for only a few objects
5. Setting up lifecycle management for all objects with the same tag
6. Static website hosting using S3

4.1 What is a database? Types of databases and databases on AWS
4.2 Introduction to Amazon RDS
4.3 Multi-AZ deployments and the features of RDS
4.4 Read replicas in RDS and reserved DB instances
4.5 RDS pricing and design patterns
4.6 Introduction to Amazon Aurora, benefits of Aurora, and Aurora pricing and design patterns
4.7 Introduction to DynamoDB, components of DynamoDB, and DynamoDB pricing and design patterns
4.8 What is Amazon Redshift? Advantages of Redshift
4.9 What is ElastiCache? Why ElastiCache?

Hands-on Exercise:

1. Launching a MySQL RDS instance
2. Modifying an RDS instance
3. Connecting to the DB instance from your machine
4. Creating a multi-AZ deployment
5. Create an Aurora DB cluster
6. Creating an Aurora replica
7. Creating a DynamoDB table

5.1 Introduction to Autoscaling, vertical and horizontal scaling, the life cycle of Autoscaling
5.2 Components of Autoscaling, scaling options and policy, and instance termination
5.3 Using load balancer with Autoscaling

Hands-on Exercise:

1. Creating an autoscaling group
2. Configuring an autoscaling group

6.1 Pre-IAM and why access management?
6.2 Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) and IAM features
6.3 Multi-factor authentication (MFA) in IAM and JSON
6.4 IAM policies, IAM permissions, IAM roles, identity federation, and pricing
6.5 Introduction to CloudWatch, metrics and namespaces, CloudWatch architecture, dashboards in CW, CloudWatch alarms, CloudWatch logs, and pricing and design patterns
6.6 Introduction to CloudTrail and tracking API usage

Hands-on Exercise:

1. Creating IAM users and a group
2. Creating an IAM policy and attach it to the group
3. Creating an IAM role
4. Setting up MFA for a user
5. Creating a CloudWatch dashboard and adding metrics
6. Creating a CloudWatch alarm that triggers according to the CPU utilization of an EC2 instance
7. Creating a billing alarm
8. Creating a log group
9. Creating a trail

7.1 Introduction to elastic load balancer
7.2 Types of ELB: Classic, network, and application
7.3 Load balancer architecture
7.4 Cross-zone load balancing

Hands-on Exercise:

1. Creating a classic ELB
2. Creating an application ELB
3. Integrating ELB with autoscaling

• Shared responsibility model
• Compliance and security services
• AWS KMS