Cloud Computing

Topics

• Cloud and Cloud Computing Preview
• Cloud Computing Service Models
• Cloud Computing Deployment Models
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Preview
• AWS Global Infrastructure
• AWS Regions and Replication of Data between the Regions
• Availability in AWS and How to Measure Availability
• High Availability and Availability Zones
• AWS Edge Location
• AWS Services
• AWS CLI, SDKs And Management Console

Hands-on:
• Sign-up for AWS free-tier account
• Create a S3 bucket through Console
• Create a S3 bucket through AWS CLI
• Launch an EC2 instance

Topics:
• Identity and Access Management (IAM) Preview
• Components of IAM
• Managing Users with IAM
• Managing Permissions with Groups
• IAM Policy and Its Elements
• Best Practises of IAM
• Identity and Credential Management
• Access and Permission Management
• Delegation and Audit
• Creating API Keys for Accessing AWS Services
• Key Management System (KMS) and its Usage
• AWS Billings
• AWS Alerts and How to create Alerts

Hands-on:
• Create new users who can log in to AWS console
• Create a 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 a Budget

Topics:
• Traditional Storage
• Need to move to the cloud storage
• Traditional Vs Cloud Storage (Cost)
• Cloud Storage
• Working of S3
• Difference Between S3, EBS, and EFS
• Bucket Policy
• Access Control List (ACL)
• Versioning
• Cross-Region Replication (CRR) and its Use case
• Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
• Choice of Storage Classes on S3
• Life Cycle Policy of S3 Bucket
• Access S3 And Glacier
• CloudFront and Snowball 
• Storage Gateway Preview
• Different modes of Gateway: File, Volume and Tape Gateway

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
• Upload a file to AWS S3 through a Website
• Accessing a static website through Cloud Front

Topics:
• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
• Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
• Security Groups In AWS
• Authentication Through Key-Pair
• Hardware Tenancy – Shared v/s Dedicated
• The network layer in EC2: VPC
• Elastic Network Interface and its Attributes
• Different Categories of IP Address
• Public IP v/s Elastic IP
• AWS Storage Services and how to select them
• Instance Store
• Elastic Block Store (EBS), its features and volume types
• Solid State Drive: General Purpose SSD and Provisioned IOPS
• Hard Disk Drive: Throughput Optimised HDD and Cold HDD
• Snapshots
• Elastic File System (EFS) and its Features
• EBS v/s EFS

Hands-on:
• Host your website inside EC2
• Create an AMI
• Create an Elastic IP
• Attaching an EBS volume externally
• To create a snapshot
• Mount EFS volumes

Topics:
• Elastic Load Balancer Preview
• Classic Load Balancer
• Network Load Balancer
• Application Load Balancer
• Components of Application Load Balancer
• Application V/S Classic V/S Network Load Balancer
• Load Balancer Troubleshoot
• Auto-Scaling Groups Preview
• Auto-Scaling Components
• Lifecycle of Auto-Scaling
• Working of Load Balancer and Auto-Scaling
• Scaling Policy
• Use case of DNS
• The need of Route 53 Preview
• Route 53 and it's working
• Various Routing Policies: Simple, Weighted, Latency-Based, Geolocation and Failover

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
• Point a sub-domain to EC2 box in Route 53

Topics:
• Database and Types of AWS Database Services
• Need of Managed Database Services
• Amazon RDS and its Benefits Preview
• Amazon RDS Database Engines
• Amazon RDS – DB Instance
• Read Replica
• DB Instance – Regions, Availability Zones and Failover Scenarios
• Backup and Restore
• Aurora Database
• Storage And I/O Traffic in Aurora
• Crash Recovery in AWS Aurora
• Difference Between SQL And NoSQL Databases
• Amazon DynamoDB
• Read Consistency and Calculation of Throughput Capacity
• Benefits of DynamoDB, use case and working
• Amazon ElastiCache: Memcached and Redis
• Amazon RedShift, its features and Architectures
• AWS Redshift Architecture
• Streaming Data
• Kinesis Preview

Hands-on:
• Storing 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

Topics:
• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and its benefits
• Default and Non-Default VPC
• IP Address
• CIDR- Classless Inter-domain Routing
• Subnet: Subnet Mask and Subnet Mask Classes
• Private and Public Subnet
• IPv4 v/s IPv6 – As in AWS Infrastructure
• Internet Gateway and Route Tables
• Security Group with VPC
• Access Control List, NACL and Security Group
• NAT Devices: NAT Gateway and NAT Instance
• VPC Peering and its working Preview
• VPN and Direct Connect
• The need for Monitoring Services
• AWS CloudWatch and it's working Preview
• CloudTrail, its working and use case Preview
• Trusted Advisor

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 VPC’s using VPC peering
• Monitoring an EC2 instance using CloudWatch
• Enable CloudTrail and Store Logs in S3
• Explore Trusted Advisor

Topics:
• Application Services
• Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) Preview
• Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) and its working
• SNS Mobile Push
• Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
• Long Polling
• SQS Visibility Timeout
• Dead-Letter Queues
• AWS SWF and its workflow
• Architecture of SWF
• Serverless Computing
• Amazon Lambda and it's working Preview
• Event Sources –Integration with Lambda

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

Topics:
• Need of CloudFormation Preview
• CloudFormation and its components
• Templates in CloudFormation
• Stack in CloudFormation
• AWS OpsWorks Preview
• AWS OpsWorks services
• OpsWorks for Chef Automate
• Cookbooks and Recipies
• AWS OpsWorks Stack
• Components of AWS OpsWorks Stack
• AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise
• 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

Topics:
• Basics of Resilient Architecture
• Basics of Performant Architecture

Topics:

1. Well-Architected Framework

Topics:
• AWS Solution Architect Certification Exam Guide
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