Course Outline

• Introduction to AWS Cloud Computing

Getting started with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Creating accounts and analyzing the cost breakdown
• Evaluating Service Level Agreements (SLA)
• Console, commandâ??line tools and API

Overview of the architecture

• EC2
• S3
• EBS
• Beanstalk
• RDS
• VPC
• CloudFront
• SimpleDB
• SQS
• CloudWatch

• Achieving Agility with EC2

Managing the EC2 infrastructure

• Browsing Amazon Machine Images (AMI)
• Specifying security groups and key pairs

Provisioning resources

• Evaluating Elastic Block Store (EBS) and instance store root devices
• Assigning elastic IP addresses
• Mapping instance types to computing needs

• Implementing Durable and Reliable Storage

Storing data in the cloud

• Persisting offâ??instance storage with EBS volumes
• Creating backups with snapshots
• Achieving high durability with SimpleStorage Service
• Transmitting data in/out of the Amazon cloud

Simplifying the database infrastructure

• Achieving high availability of nonrelational data with SimpleDB
• Effortlessly implementing a relational database with Relational Database Service (RDS)

Creating costâ??effective distributed solutions

• Decoupling applications with Simple Queue Service
• Leveraging CloudFront for highâ??performance edge cache content delivery
• Delivering static and streaming content

• Adapting EC2 to Your Business Needs

Customizing virtual machines

• Modifying existing images
• Creating new images off of running instances
• Converting an instance store AMI to an EBS AMI

Creating an AWS cloud architecture

• Applying best practices for a cloud solution
• Selecting a cloud setup for different use case scenarios

• Handling Dynamic Resource Requirements

Monitoring from inside or outside of the cloud

• Visualizing utilization metrics with CloudWatch
• Setting alarms to send and receive notifications

Transparently scaling to meet load variations

• Distributing incoming traffic with elastic load balancing
• Dynamically adding and removing instances with Auto Scaling
• Setting capacity thresholds

• Hosting Applications with Elastic Beanstalk

Improving application delivery with Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Deploying scalable applications on the AWS cloud
• Selecting and launching an application environment

Managing application environments

• Customizing and configuring platform stacks
• Provisioning application resources with CloudFormation

• AWS Security Features

Controlling account security

• Configuring access credentials
• Managing users with Identity Access Management (IAM)

Leveraging the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

• Launching EC2 instances in private subnets for extra security
• Bridging EC2 instances to your internal network with a VPN
• Organizing EC2 instances in separate subnets with a VPC