AWS Fundamentals: Hands-on Introduction to Cloud Computing

• An understanding of basic IT concepts
• Experience with general networking
• Familiarity with databases and web applications

Audience

• IT professionals
• System administrators
• Developers exploring cloud platforms

AWS is Amazon’s cloud computing platform that provides a wide range of services for computing, storage, networking, and application integration.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level cloud professionals who wish to learn AWS fundamentals through hands-on practice.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand cloud computing concepts and AWS global infrastructure.
• Launch and configure compute, storage, and networking services in AWS.
• Apply IAM policies and security best practices.
• Integrate services and build a simple cloud-based web application.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

1) Cloud Fundamentals and AWS

• Cloud Computing concepts
• Service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
• Deployment models (Public, Private, Hybrid, Multicloud)
• Introduction to AWS
• Global infrastructure: Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge Locations
• Accessing AWS Management Console and CLI

Hands-on:

• Account creation, initial setup, and console navigation
• User configuration in IAM (Identity and Access Management)

2) Computing and Networking

• Compute Services
  • Amazon EC2: instances, AMIs, types, auto scaling
  • AWS Lambda: serverless computing
• Networking Services
  • Amazon VPC: subnets, routes, gateways, security
  • Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

Hands-on:

• Launching and accessing an EC2 instance
• Creating a simple VPC with public and private subnets

3) Storage and Databases

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

Hands-on:

• Creating and configuring an S3 bucket for static website hosting
• Creating an RDS database and accessing it via EC2 instance

4) Security, Monitoring, and Automation

• Security and Governance
  • IAM (users, groups, roles, and policies)
  • Secrets Manager and Parameter Store: best practices for secret management
  • AWS Organizations and cost control
• Monitoring
  • Amazon CloudWatch: metrics, logs, and alarms
  • AWS CloudTrail: activity auditing
• Automation
  • AWS CloudFormation: infrastructure as code

Hands-on:

• Creating alarms in CloudWatch
• Simple deployment using CloudFormation

5) Integration, API Gateway, and Final Project

• Service Integration
  • Amazon API Gateway: creation, configuration, and API security
  • Integration with AWS Lambda and DynamoDB
  • Highly available and scalable architectures
  • Using managed services (ECS/EKS – introduction)
• Best Practices
  • Well-Architected Framework
  • AWS cost management and optimization

Final Project Hands-on:
Building a simple web application on AWS integrating:

• API Gateway + Lambda (serverless backend)
• S3 (static site or asset storage)
• RDS or DynamoDB (data layer)
• CloudWatch for monitoring