Introduction to AWS

Topics for the complete course syllubus 

Classic Data Center

Virtualization

Cloud and Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing Service Models

Cloud Computing Deployment Models

Service Comparison: AWS, Azure, and GCP

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its Benefits

AWS Global Infrastructure

AWS Regions and Replication of data between the Regions

Availability Zones and High Availability

PoP Locations

Signup an AWS Free Tier Account

Different Amazon Web Services

Ways to access AWS: CLI, Console, and SDKs

Explore Management Console and Configure AWS CLI

AWS CloudShell

 

Identity and Access Management in AWS

Topics

Threats to AWS Security

AWS Shared Responsibility Model

AWS Security Solutions

Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Managing Users with IAM

Managing Permissions with Groups

IAM Policy and its Elements

IAM Roles

Password Policy

MFA

Best Practices for IAM

AWS Security Token Services

AWS Single Sign-on

AWS Resources Access Manager

Active directory

Microsoft Active directory

AWS Directory Services

AWS Artifact

AWS Audit Manager

AWS Certificate Manager

Accessing Billing and Alerts

 

Amazon EC2

Topics

Compute 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

Elastic Network Interface (ENI) and Its Attributes

Public IP vs. Elastic IP

Instance Store

Elastic Block Store (EBS), Its Features and Volume Types

Solid State Drive: General Purpose SSD and Provisioned IOPS

Hard Disk Drive: Throughput Optimized HDD and Cold HDD

Snapshots

Elastic File System (EFS) and Its Features

Amazon Batch

Windows File Server

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

Use case of Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

Amazon FSx for Lustre

 

AWS Storage Options

Topics

Traditional Storage

Need to Move to Cloud Storage

Traditional vs. Cloud Storage Cost

Cloud Storage

Different Storage Options Available on AWS

Simple Storage Service (S3) and Its Components

Working of S3

Bucket Policy

Access Control List (ACL)

Versioning

S3 Replicate

Cross-Region Replication (CRR) and Its Use Case

Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

Choice of Storage Classes on S3

Lifecycle Policy of S3 Bucket

AWS Backup

CDN: CloudFront

Storage Gateway

 

Networking using AWS

Topics

Traditional and Virtual Network

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Its Benefits

Default and Non-default VPC

Major Steps to Configure VPC

IP Address

CIDR- Classless Inter-domain Routing

Subnet

Private and Public Subnet

Internet Gateway and Route Tables

Security Group with VPC

NACL and Security Group

NAT Gateway and NAT Instance

Limitations of VPC Peering

Transit VPC

Transit Gateway

VPC Endpoints

AWS Private Link

VPN and Direct Connect

AWS Global Accelerator

 

Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Routing using AWS

Topics

Elastic Load Balancer

Network Load Balancer

Application Load Balancer

Gateway Load Balancer

Advanced Features of ELB

Benefits and Components of Application Load Balancer

Load Balancer Troubleshoot

Auto Scaling and its Benefits

Auto Scaling Components

Launch Configurations/ Launch Templates

Scaling Policies

Lifecycle of Auto Scaling

Working on Load Balancer and Auto Scaling

Scaling Policy

Use Case of DNS

Need of Route 53

Route 53 and it’s Working

Various Routing Policies

 

AWS Database Services

Database

AWS Database Services – Use Cases

Amazon RDS

Read Replica

IAM in Amazon RDS

Difference Between SQL and NoSQL Databases

Amazon DynamoDB and its Data Structure

Amazon ElastiCache

Memcached vs. Redis

Amazon RedShift and its features

AWS Redshift Architecture

Aurora Database

Connection Management in Aurora

Amazon Aurora Reliability

Amazon Aurora Global Database

Amazon Aurora Serverless

Amazon Keyspaces

Apache Cassandra

 

Security Management in AWS

Topics

AWS Cognito

AWS Config

AWS Firewall Manager

AWS Network Firewall

Web Application Firewall (WAF)

AWS Shield

Amazon Detective

AWS Inspector

AWS Macie

AWS GuardDuty

AWS Security Hub

KMS

CloudHSM

AWS Secrets Manager

Trusted Advisor

 

Monitoring Resources and Governance in AWS

Topics

Cloud Monitoring Services

Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon Managed Grafana

Amazon Managed Services for Prometheus

CloudWatch Events and Logs

Cloud Monitoring Service: AWS CloudTrail

CloudTrail Use Cases

AWS CLI

AWS Organizations

AWS License Manager

AWS Control Tower

AWS Health Dashboard

AWS Compute Optimizer

AWS System Manager

 

Application Services, Serverless Computing and Provisioning Infrastructure

Topics

Application Services

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Dead-Letter Queues

Simple Workflow Service (SWF)

Amazon MQ

Amazon EventBridge

Serverless Computing

AWS Lambda

AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM)

AWS Step Functions

Amazon States Language

Elastic Beanstalk

Concepts of Elastic Beanstalk

AWS CloudFormation

Templates and Stack in CloudFormation

 

Cloud Analytics and Cost Management on AWS

Topics

What is Cloud Analytics?

AWS Analytics Services

Amazon Athena

Amazon Kinesis

Visualize Web Traffic Using Kinesis Data Stream

Amazon Elasticsearch (Opensearch)

Amazon QuickSight

AWS Cost Management

AWS Cost Management Services

AWS Cost Explorer

AWS Budgets

AWS Cost Optimization

 

AWS Architectural Designs – I

Topics

AWS Well-Architected Framework

Pillars of AWS Well-Architected Framework

Resilience

Design Highly Available and Fault-Tolerant Architectures

Choose Appropriate Resilient Storage

Designing Decoupling Mechanisms Using AWS Services

Design a Multi-tier Architecture Solution

Disaster Recovery (DR)

Options to Implement DR Plans

Design High-Performance Architecture

Achieve Performance Efficiency

Achieve Performance Efficiency by Monitoring

Achieve Performance Efficiency by Performing Trade-offs

 

AWS Architectural Designs – II (Self-paced)

Topics

Design Secure Applications and Architectures

Cloud Security

AWS IAM

How IAM Secures your Resources?

Identity and Federation

Shared Responsibility Model

Network Security Layer

Multi-Layer Architecture With Network Security

AWS HSM and its working

AWS S3 Security

AWS Security and Compliance Centre

Design Cost-Optimized Architectures

Cost Optimization

Cost Optimization Design Principles

Cost Effective Resources

 

Migrating to Cloud (Self-paced)

Topics

Why Cloud Migration?

What is Cloud Migration?

Migration Phases

CAF Perspectives and Their Roles

AWS Migration Hub

AWS Migration Hub Use Cases

AWS Application Discovery Service

Application Discovery Tools

Application Migration to AWS

Application Migration Phases

AWS Server Migration Service (SMS)

Database Migration Service

Working of DMS

AWS Database Migration use cases

Types of data transfer: Homogenous and Heterogenous

Database Schema Migration tool

Database Migration best practices

 

Containers in AWS (Self-paced)

Topics

ECS Introduction

ECS Cluster

ECS Task Definition

ECS Service

ECR Introduction

Push an image to ECR

ECS Service with a load balancer

Deploy an application over the ECS cluster

EKS

EKS Architecture

EKS Cluster

Creating an EKS Cluster

EKS Cluster cost

Elastic Beanstalk

 

 

AWS Machine Learning (Self-paced)

Topics

Machine Learning (ML)

AI vs. Machine Learning vs. Deep Learning

Steps of Machine Learning

Types of Machine Learning algorithms

Machine Learning on AWS cloud platform

Amazon SageMaker

Business Intelligence - Amazon QuickSight

What are Chatbots?

Amazon Lex

Working on Amazon Lex

Amazon Rekognition

Working of Amazon Rekognition

Amazon Polly

Working of Amazon Polly