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 Duration 35 hours

Course Outline

1) Cloud Basics and the AWS Ecosystem

  • Core concepts of cloud computing
  • Service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
  • Deployment models (Public, Private, Hybrid, Multicloud)
  • Overview of AWS
  • Global infrastructure: Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge Locations
  • Navigating the AWS Management Console and CLI

Practical Application:

  • Creating an account, initial configuration, and navigating the console
  • Configuring users in IAM (Identity and Access Management)

2) Compute and Network Services

  • Compute Services
    • Amazon EC2: instances, AMIs, instance types, and auto-scaling
    • AWS Lambda: Serverless computing capabilities
  • Networking Services
    • Amazon VPC: Subnets, routing, gateways, and security controls
    • Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

Practical Application:

  • Launching and connecting to an EC2 instance
  • Setting up a basic VPC with public and private subnets

3) Storage Solutions and Databases

  • Storage Services
    • Amazon S3: Buckets, policies, and versioning
    • Amazon EBS and Amazon EFS
  • Database Services
    • Amazon RDS (MySQL/PostgreSQL)
    • Amazon Aurora (MySQL/PostgreSQL)
    • DynamoDB (NoSQL)

Practical Application:

  • Setting up and configuring an S3 bucket for static website hosting
  • Establishing an RDS database and connecting to it via an EC2 instance

4) Security, Monitoring, and Automation

  • Security and Governance
    • IAM (users, groups, roles, and policies)
    • Secrets Manager and Parameter Store: Best practices for managing secrets
    • AWS Organizations and cost control measures
  • Monitoring
    • Amazon CloudWatch: Metrics, logging, and alarms
    • AWS CloudTrail: Activity auditing
  • Automation
    • AWS CloudFormation: Infrastructure as code

Practical Application:

  • Setting up alarms in CloudWatch
  • Performing a simple deployment using CloudFormation

5) Integration, API Gateway, and Capstone Project

  • Service Integration
    • Amazon API Gateway: Creation, configuration, and API security
    • Integrating with AWS Lambda and DynamoDB
    • Designing highly available and scalable architectures
    • Introduction to managed services (ECS/EKS)
  • Best Practices
    • The Well-Architected Framework
    • AWS cost management and optimization strategies

Final Project Practical Application:
Developing a simple web application on AWS that integrates:

  • API Gateway + Lambda (Serverless backend)
  • S3 (For static sites or asset storage)
  • RDS or DynamoDB (Data layer)
  • CloudWatch for system monitoring

Requirements

  • A foundational grasp of basic IT concepts
  • Familiarity with general networking principles
  • Basic knowledge of databases and web applications

Target Audience

  • IT specialists
  • System administrators
  • Developers exploring cloud platform opportunities

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