AWS: A Hands-on Introduction to Cloud Computing

• Basic understanding of cloud services
• Some system administration experience
• Basic understanding of databases and programming, APIs, etc.

Audience

• Engineers, system administrators, DBAs, DevOps

This instructor-led, live training provides an overview of AWS products, services and solutions. It is aimed at individuals and teams who are:

• evaluating/preparing for an initial deployment of their IT infrastructure on AWS.
• evaluating/preparing to migrate their existing IT infrastructure to the AWS public cloud.

By the end of this training, participants will have a clear understanding of the principal components that make up Amazon's cloud offering. The hands-on exercises, discussions and in-class deployments will provide participants with the practice and feedback they need to feel comfortable and prepared to carry out their own live deployments to AWS.

Format of the Course

• The training will be interactive and includes hands-on lab activities and live implementation.

Introduction to Cloud Computing

Overview of AWS Architecture and Design

AWS Foundational Services

• EC2, VPC, S3, EBS

AWS Compute and Networking Options

AWS Security

Identity and Access Management

Managing Structured and Unstructured Data in AWS

Working with DynamoDB and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

AWS Tools for Management and Deployment

• Auto Scaling
• CloudWatch
• Elastic Load Balancing and Monitoring
• Trusted Advisor

Instance Management

Migrating to Cloud

Summary and Conclusion