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Cloud Computing - AWS

This document outlines a training program to prepare students for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate certification. The 13-part training covers fundamental AWS services like EC2, S3, VPC, security and operations tools. Hands-on exercises reinforce key concepts in launching instances, load balancing, object storage, database usage and automation. Overall, the training aims to give students a solid understanding of architecting applications on the AWS platform.

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Cloud Computing - AWS

This document outlines a training program to prepare students for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate certification. The 13-part training covers fundamental AWS services like EC2, S3, VPC, security and operations tools. Hands-on exercises reinforce key concepts in launching instances, load balancing, object storage, database usage and automation. Overall, the training aims to give students a solid understanding of architecting applications on the AWS platform.

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AWS Certification Training - Solutions Architect Associate

1.Introduction to AWS
You will understand about important resources of AWS that are required to architect an
application.

Topics:
● Cloud Computing
● Cloud deployment and service models
● AWS Global Infrastructure and its benefits
● AWS Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge Locations
● AWS Services
● Ways to access AWS Services: AWS CLI, AWS SDK, AWS Management Console
● Sign-up for AWS free-tier account
● Explore Console and Configure CLI

2. Amazon EC2
You will learn to launch,connect and work with Virtual Machines which are called as EC2
instances by AWS and also learn other services associated with EC2

Topics:

● Launch EC2 instance


● Instance Types and Pricing Models
● Placement groups
● Data management lifecycle
● Start, stop and terminate an EC2 Instance
● Elastic IP and ENI
● Public and Private IP of instances
● EBS and its types
● SSDs and Provisioned IOPS
● EFS
● EBS vs EFS
● Cost optimization

Hands on:

● Host your website inside EC2


● Create a Snapshot
● Create an AMI
● Create an Elastic IP
● Attaching an EBS volume externally
● Mount EFS volumes
● Mount FSx into windows servers and share same file

3. Load Balancing, Auto-Scaling


You will learn the concepts of Load Balancing, Auto-Scaling

Topics:

● Elastic Load Balancer and its types


● Advanced features of ELB
● Launch Templates
● Launch Configurations
● Comparison of Classic, Network and Application Load Balancer
● Auto-Scaling
● Components of Auto-Scaling
● Lifecycle of Auto-Scaling
● Auto-Scaling policy

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

4. Networking Services in AWS


You will learn to implement networking using public and private subnets with VPC and
routing traffic from private instances to internet.
Topics:

● VPC – Benefits and Components


● CIDR Notations
● Network Access Control List v/s Security Groups
● NAT (Network Address Translation): NAT Devices, NAT Gateway and NAT instance
● VPC peering
● Direct Connect
● Private Link
● Classic Link

Hands-On:

● Create a Non-default VPC and attach it to an EC2 instance


● Accessing Internet inside Private Subnet using NAT Gateway
● Connect two instances in different VPCs using VPC peering
● Connect to an App hosted in different VPC through Private Link

5. Security Management in AWS


You will learn about how to securely manage your application and your AWS account using
various Amazon security services.

Topics:

● User management through Identity Access Management (IAM)


● Various access policies across AWS Services
● AWS Cognito
● AWS Security & Encryption: KMS, CloudHSM, Sheild, and WAF
● API keys service access
● Best practices for IAM
● Access billing and create alerts on billing

Hands-On:

● Create new users who can login to AWS console


● Create role for an application to access S3
● Create policies for new user to have either admin or limited privileges
● Credential rotation for IAM users
● Login to AWS console via MFA
● Create API keys for accessing AWS Services
● Create Budget
● Login to Cognito Hosted UI and redirect to a custom domain
6. Object Storage Options
Learning Objective: In this AWS training module, you will learn about the different Object
Storage Services offered by AWS, identify when to use a specific service, how to
store/transfer data using these services and optimize the storage cost.

Topics:

● S3 bucket
● Storage classes in S3
● Glacier Deep Archive
● Life cycle policy in S3
● S3 Lock Policies
● S3 Performance Optimization
● Cost optimization for S3
● Difference between S3, EBS and EFS
● Glacier: Glacier Vault Policies
● Storage Gateway and its types

Hands-On:

● Hosting a Static Website on Amazon S3


● Versioning in AWS S3
● Replicating data across regions
● S3 Transfer acceleration
● Transfer and retrieve data from Glacier through lifecycle policy
● Accessing a static website through CloudFront

7. Route 53
you will learn about the aws DNS service Route 53 and its routing polices

Topics:

● Working of Route 53
● Various Routing Policies

Hands on
● Create a private hosted zone
● Launch ec2 and attach to hosted zone
● Add various routing policies to hosted zone

8. Database Services and Analytics


You will learn about the different database services offered by AWS to handle structured and
unstructured data. This module also gives you knowledge on how to analyze your data.

Topics:

● Amazon RDS and its benefits


● Read Replica
● RDS IAM Authentication
● Aurora: Aurora Serverless & Global Databases
● DynamoDB
● ElastiCache: Working, Redis vs Memcached
● Amazon RedShift: Redshift Spectrum
● Kinesis: AWS Kinesis Data Streams, AWS Kinesis Data Firehouse
● AWS Lake Formation
● AWS Athena
● Overview on Database Migration Service

Hands-On:

● Storing an application data in MySQL DB using Relational Database Service (RDS)


● Creating Tables, loading sample data and running queries
● Redis Cache
● Visualize the web traffic using Kinesis Data Stream
● Analyse csv data in S3 with Athena

9. Applications Services and AWS Lambda


You will learn about different Application services offered by AWS, that are used for sending
e-mails, notifications, and processing message queues. This AWS Certification module also
deals with the latest trend of Serverless architecture using AWS Lambda.
Topics:

● AWS Simple Email Service (SES)


● Implement SES
● Demonstrate the working of SNS
● SQS: Work with SQS, ASG with SQS
● Amazon MQ
● Amazon Event Bridge
● AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS)
● AWS Simple WorkFlow (SWF)
● AWS Lambda
● AWS Serverless Application Model

Hands-On:

● Send an email through AWS SES


● Send notification through SNS
● Send an e-mail through Lambda when an object is added to S3
● Send notification through Lambda when a message is sent to SQS

10. Monitoring Services in AWS

You will learn to monitor aws services through cloud watch and log values through cloud
trail and also about aws config and trusted advisor.

● AWS CloudTrail
● AWS Config
● Trusted Advisor

Hands-On:

● Monitoring an EC2 instance using CloudWatch


● Enable CloudTrail and Store Logs in S3
● Explore Trusted Advisor

11. Configuration Management and Automation


This module helps you gain knowledge on various AWS services and tools used for
configuration management and Automation.

Topics:

● Infrastructure as Code
● CloudFormation and its components
● Templates in CloudFormation
● Stack in CloudFormation
● Resource deletion policies in CloudFormation
● Introduction to AWS OpsWorks
● AWS OpsWorks services
● Components of AWS OpsWorks Stack
● OpsWorks Lifecycle Events and Deployment Commands
● OpsWorks for Chef Automate
● Migration services

12. AWS Architectural Designs


AWS Well-Architected Framework – Securing Applications and Architectures.

Topics:

● Well-Architected Framework
● Specify Secure Applications and Architectures
● Determine how to secure application tiers
● Determine how to secure data
● Define networking infrastructure for a single VPC application
● Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
● Determine how to design cost-optimized storage
● Determine how to design cost-optimized compute

● AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise


● Auto Healing
● Elastic Beanstalk
● Components of Elastic Beanstalk
● Beanstalk v/s OpsWorks v/s CloudFormation

Hands-On:

● Installation of LAMP server in EC2 through CloudFormation


● AWS OpsWorks Stack
● Deploy a Web Application with DynamoDB using Beanstalk

13. AWS Certified Solutions Architect Certification Exam Questionnaires


Guidance on taking up AWS Solution Architect Certification Exam.

Topics:

● AWS Solution Architect Certification Exam Guide


● Certification Exam Questionnaires

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