AWS Solution Architect Associate – Course Agenda

1.  AWS Overview

• The lesson will provide users with a history and background of AWS along with an overview of
  all products and services that are offered.
• Description of AWS
• History and Evolution of AWS
• Overview of AWS Products and Services

2. Designing highly available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, scalable systems

• The lesson will help users understand why designing cloud infrastructure is different than for
  traditional on-premise data centers and will cover AWS concepts, recommendations and best
  practices about how to build cloud systems.
• How to Design Cloud Services
• Planning and Designing
• Monitoring and Logging
• Hybrid IT architectures
• Practice Assignment: Designing Hybrid Storage

3. Identity and Access Management (IAM)

• The lesson will provide users with information about how to control and secure user access to
  your AWS resources using the AWS Access and Identity Management service.
• IAM Overview
• IAM Policies
• IAM Users
• IAM Groups
• IAM Roles
• IAM best practices
• Practice Assignment: Configuring IAM Access
• Demos Included
• Creating an IAM Policy
• Creating an IAM User
• Creating an IAM Group
• Creating an IAM Role

4. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

• The lesson will provide users with details of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, which allows the
  creation of custom cloud-based networks. Users will become familiar with all concepts of VPC, for
  example, subnets, Internet Gateways, etc.
• Amazon VPC Overview
• Amazon VPC
• IP Addresses
• Subnets
• Internet Gateway
• Route Tables
• NAT Devices
• Security Groups
• Network ACL’s
• VPC Best Practices
• Practice Assignment: Designing a Custom VPC
• Demos Included:
• Creating a custom VPC
• Creating an Elastic IP Address
• Creating Subnets
• Creating Internet Gateways
• Creating Route Tables
• Creating a NAT Gateway
• Creating a Security Group
• Network ACL Overview

5. Elastic Cloud Compute- EC2

• The lesson will help users understand what the EC2 service is and its many uses. Users will
  learn the EC2 launch process and will understand how storage, snapshots, Elastic Load
  Balancing and Auto Scaling all operate together. The lesson will also provide an overview of the
  other compute services that AWS offers.
• Cloud Computing with AWS
• Amazon EC2 Overview
• Amazon Machine Images(AMI)
• EC2 Instance Types
• Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
• EC2 Pricing
• Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
• Auto Scaling
• AWS Services
• Amazon Elastic Container Service
• EC2 Best Practices and Costs
• Practice Assignment: Configure ELB not started
• Demos Included:
• Launch and connect to an EC2 Linux instance
• Launch and connect to an EC2 Windows instance
• Create an AMI
• EC2 Instance Types
• Attaching EBS Volumes
• EBS and Raid 0
• EBS Snapshots
• EC2 Spot Pricing
• Elastic Load Balancing
• Auto Scaling
• AWS CLI

6. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

• The lesson will help users understand the many uses, types and concepts of Amazon S3 storage
  and how it can be integrated with CloudFront and Import/Export services.
• Amazon S3 Overview
• S3 Buckets
• Version Control
• Amazon S3 Lifecycle Management
• CloudFront and CDNs
• Security and Encryption
• Import/Export & Snowball
• Amazon S3 Best Practices