Course Content
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, command–line tools and API
Overview of the architecture
Ec2
S3
EBS
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 Storage of data in the cloud
Persisting off–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 cost–effective distributed solutions
Decoupling applications with Simple Queue Service
Leveraging CloudFront for high–performance edge cache content delivery
Delivering static and streaming content
Ec2 instance for 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
Ondemand Resource Requirements by
Monitoring services 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
AWS Security Features
Controlling account security
Configuring access credentials
Managing users with Identity Access Management (IAM)
Leveraging the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Implement Ec2 instances in private subnets
Peering Ec2 instances to your internal network with a VPN
VPC Peering on Ec2 instances in separate subnets with a VPC
