Extellent Professional Development Centers

9420 Research Blvd, Echelon III, Suite 200

Austin, TX 78759
www.extellent.com
512-346-8110

Course: AWS Technical Essentials

Course Description:
This one day AWS Technical Essentials course is intended to introduce you to Amazon Web
Services, including AWS storage options, Elastic Load Balancing/autoscaling and Amazon EC2.
You will also learn to comfortably manage database services such as DynamoDB and Amazon
RDS.

We will also learn how to monitor your deployment using Amazon CloudWatch metrics and
alarms, along with maintaining user access with Amazon Identity and Access Management
(IAM) and reducing deployment complexity with Amazon Elastic Beanstalk. We will discuss
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) and Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and how
they can be used in developing decoupled, microservice based architectures.

Duration: 1 Day/Lecture & Lab

Audience Profile:
Anyone interested in acquiring a high level view of Amazon Web Services, the core business
value proposition and exposure to the breadth of its offerings.
Prerequisites:
Attendees should also have an understanding of basic system operations, server configuration,
networking and databases.
Certification Options:
The AWS Technical Essentials course serves as the foundation for subsequent courses,
including the AWS Developing certification, the AWS Solutions Architecture certification and
the AWS SysOps certification courses.

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Course Outline:
1. THE BASICS OF AWS CLOUD COMPUTING
Cloud Computing Key Concepts
Public, private, and hybrid clouds
Service Models in the Cloud IaaS, PaaS, and
SaaS
Configuring your new AWS account
Introduction to the AWS management console
2. AWS CLOUD APPLICATION ARCHITECTURES
N-tier architectures
Understanding multi-tenancy
Scaling in the Cloud
Infrastructure Automation
Everything fails all the time
Maximizing performance in the Cloud
Understanding eventual consistency
Pricing models in AWS Cloud
3. STORAGE OPTIONS ON AWS
S3 Object storage
EBS Block storage
Introduction to Amazon CloudFront
Lab 1: Hosting a static website on S3
4. AMAZON EC2
AWS EC2 pricing options
Introduction to Amazon Machine Images
Introduction to Elastic Block Storage
Lab 2: Launching your first EC2 instance on AWS
Cloud
5. SCALABLE ARCHITECTURES IN THE AWS CLOUD
Designing for scale key concepts
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Extellent Professional Development Centers
Extellent Professional Development Centers
9420 Research Blvd, Echelon III, Suite 200
Austin, TX 78759
www.extellent.com
512-346-8110
Application Architectures Overview
Infrastructure Services in AWS Cloud
Introduction to Amazon messaging services
(Amazon SNS and SQS)
6. HIGH AVAILABILITY IN THE AWS CLOUD
High availability key concepts
Single points of failure
Designing a disaster recovery strategy
7. ELASTIC LOAD BALANCING/AUTOSCALING
Elastic Load Balancing key concepts
Autoscaling key concepts
Lab 3: Configuring a load balanced autoscaled
web application
8. SECURITY IN THE AWS CLOUD
Security in the Cloud key concepts
Shared responsibility model
Security best practices on new AWS accounts
9. APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT ON AWS
Infrastructure management and deployment
services scale
Monitoring with AWS CloudWatch
Backup and archival solutions on AWS
Lab 4: Configuring your first application
deployment pipeline
10. MANAGED DATABASE SERVICES ON AWS
Introduction to Amazon RDS
Introduction to Amazon DynamoDB
Introduction to ElastiCache
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