• What is a computer?
• Hardware and software
• Basic operations

  Inside a computer case

• Motherboard
• Processor
• Memory
• Disks
• Input Devices
• Output Devices

The purpose of this module is to introduce you to the different services provided by AWS. This module will provide you with an overview of what you need to architect an application.

Topics:

• Classic Data Centre
• Virtualization
• Cloud and Cloud Computing
• Cloud Computing Service Models and Deployment Models
• Service Comparison: AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its Benefits
• AWS Regions and Replication of data between the Regions
• Availability Zones and High Availability
• Ways to access AWS: CLI and Console

Hands-On:

• Sign-up for AWS free-tier account
• Explore Console and Configure CLI

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is based on EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud). Learn about EC2 instances and their usage in this module.

Topics:

• Virtualization
• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Its Benefits
• Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
• Security Groups in AWS
• Authentication through Key-pair
• Hardware Tenancy – Shared vs. Dedicated
• Networking Layer in EC2: VPC
• Public IP vs. Elastic IP
• Elastic Block Store (EBS), Its Features and Volume Types
• Elastic File System (EFS) and Its Features
• EBS vs. EFS

Hands-On:

• Host your website inside EC2
• Create an AMI
• Create an Elastic IP
• Attaching an EBS volume externally
• To create a snapshot
• Mount EFS volumes

Learn how different Amazon security services can help safeguard your application and AWS account in this module.

Topics:

• Identity Access Management (IAM)
• Various access policies
• AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM),
• AWS Single Sign-On (SSO)
• AWS Security & Encryption: KMS, CloudHSM, Shield, WAF, Guard Duty
• API keys service access
• Best practices for IAM
• AWS billing

Hands-On:

• Create new users
• Create and manage roles in AWS
• Create and configure Policies
• Configuring Strong and Secure Authentication
• Configure WAF to Protect Website from Attacks
• Monitoring Malicious Activity

The objective of this module is to provide an understanding of the different Object Storage Services provided by Amazon Web Services, to determine when to use specific services and to optimize the costs of storage.

Topics:

• Traditional vs. Cloud Storage Cost
• Cloud Storage
• Different Storage Options Available on AWS
• Simple Storage Service (S3) and Its Components
• Difference Between S3, EBS and EFS
• Bucket Policy and Access Control List(ACL)
• Versioning in AWS
• Cross-Region Replication (CRR)
• Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
• Storage Classes in S3
• Lifecycle Policy of S3 Bucket
• CloudFront

Hands-On:

• Hosting a Static Website on Amazon S3
• Versioning in AWS S3
• Replicating data across regions
• Accessing a static website through CloudFront
• File Share via AWS Storage Gatewa

During this module, you will learn about the different database services that AWS has to offer for handling structured and unstructured data.

Topics:

• Amazon RDS and its benefits
• RDS IAM Authentication
• DynamoDB
• ElastiCache: Working,
• Redis vs Memcached
• Amazon RedShift
• Kinesis: AWS Kinesis Data Streams
• AWS Lake Formation

Hands-On:

• Storing an application data in MySQL DB using RDS
• Creating Tables, loading sample data and running queries
• ElastiCache
• Moving an Airline data From S3 to AWS Redshift
• Design Solution using Amazon Kinesis Data Steam

You will learn about load balancing, auto-scaling, and Route 53 in this module.

Topics:

• Elastic Load Balancer and its types
• Features of ELB
• Launch Templates and Configurations
• Comparison of Classic, Network and Application Load Balancer
• Auto-Scaling
• Lifecycle of Auto-Scaling and policy
• Working of Route 53
• Various Routing Policies

Hands-On:

• Create a Classic Load Balancer
• Create a Network Load Balancer
• Work with Application Load Balancer and Auto-Scaling
• Auto-Scaling and Scaling policy
• Use of Route 53 Traffic Flow Feature

We will cover AWS’s Application services for sending e-mails, notifications, and processing message queues in this module.

Topics:

• AWS Simple Email Service (SES)
• Implement SES
• Working of SNS
• SQS and ASG with SQS
• Amazon Event Bridge
• AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS)
• AWS Simple Work Flow (SWF)
• AWS Lambda
• AWS Serverless Application Model

Hands-On:

• Monitor status of EC2 instance using Event Bridge and SNS.
• Manage tightly coupled architecture using Amazon SQS.
• Coordinate application logic by using AWS Step Functions.

You will learn about the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud in this module. With VPC, you will learn about implementing network connectivity using public and private subnets.

Topics:

• VPC – Benefits and Components
• Network Access Control List v/s Security Groups
• NAT : Network Address Translation
• VPC peering
• Private Link
• AWS CloudWatch.
• AWS CloudTrail
• AWS Config
• Trusted Advisor

Hands-On:

• Creating a VPC and attach it to an EC2 instance
• Accessing Internet inside Private Subnet using NAT Gateway
• Connect two instances in different VPC’s
• Monitoring Application Metrics Using CloudWatch
• Auditing Amazon Cloud Services via AWS CloudTrail
• Explore Trusted Advisor

You will learn about AWS configuration management tools and services in this module.

Topics:

• Infrastructure as Code
• CloudFormation
• Introduction to AWS OpsWorks
• AWS OpsWorks services and its components
• OpsWorks for Chef Automate
• AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise
• Auto Healing
• Elastic Beanstalk and its components
• Beanstalk v/s OpsWorks v/s CloudFormation

Hands-On:

• Create Cloud Formation templates using both JSON and YMAL
• AWS OpsWorks Stack
• Deploy a Web Application with DynamoDB using Beanstalk