Introduction to AWS

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Duration: 1 day

Method: Lecture heavy, some hands on

Price: $450.00

Course Code: AW1003

Audience

Software Developers

Description

It introduces participants to the benefits of using AWS and the primary reasons why IT and DevOps look to AWS for elastic solutions. Participants will learn about the major components available in AWS and how implement them through live lab exercises.

Note: Students will need his or her own computer workstation. The following software and access is needed: Windows: PuTTY, Administrator access to install AWS CLI tools. Mac/Linux: Terminal access, root access to install CLI tools

Topics

I. Why Cloud
II. Why AWS
III. Accessing your AWS account
IV. AWS Graphical Interface Console
V. Overview of key AWS services
VI. Regions and Availability Zones
- Advantages of using Availability Zones and Regions for failover and redundancy
- Cost of Availability Zones versus Regions
VII. Creating a security group
VIII. Creating an SSH key
IX. Elastic Cloud Instances (EC2)
- Overview of the different EC2 instance types
X. Launching an EC2 instance using the console
- Downloading the private key
XI. Accessing your EC2 instance
- Configuring PuTTY for windows
XII. Enabling an Apache Web Server
XIII. Using the Command Line Interface (CLI)Verifying Python
- Installing wget and unzip
- Installing the AWS CLI
- Finding CLI help
- Configuring CLI
- Controlling CLI output
  - Text
  - Table
  - JSON
XIV. Controlling EC2 with the CLI
- Creating the SSH key pair
- Launching the EC2 instance with CLI
- Accessing the new EC2 instance via SSH
- Stopping an EC2 instance
XV. Storage Overview
- Advantage of using AWS storage
- Cost advantages
  - Pay as You Go
- Different types of storage
  - S3
  - EBS
  - Glacier
XVI. S3 (Simple Storage Service)
- S3 Overview
  - Use cases
XVII. Big Data
- Data Size Limits
- S3 access control
- S3 security
- RRS (Reduced Redundancy Storage) Overview
XVIII. Cost benefits
- Automatically archiving sets of data to Glacier
- hosting from S3
XIX. Auto scaling
- Objects and Buckets
- S3 folders
XX. Nesting
- Using S3
XXI. Creating a bucket
- Creating a folder
- Adding an object to a bucket
XXII. Setting Object Permissions
- Downloading an object from S3
- Deleting an object or bucket
- Using a 3rd party S3 explorer tool
XXIII. Creating access log records
XXIV. Controlling S3 with the CLI
- List Buckets
- Create buckets
- Copying files up to an S3 bucket
- Assigning S3 object permissions
- List objects in an S3 bucket
- Syncing files between local storage and S3
- Deleting a bucket
XXV. EBS (Elastic Block Storage)
- EBS overview
  - EBS Use cases
  - Different available volume speeds
XXVI. General purpose SSD
XXVII. IOPS
XXVIII. Magnetic
- Automatic Replication
- Encryption
- Access control
- Striping volumes
- Scaling volumes
- Snapshots
XXIX. Moving snapshots between regions
- Creating an EBS volume
- Adding a volume to your instance
  - Making the volume available
- Launching an instance from a snapshot
  - Resizing an EBS volume
  - Sharing an EBS volume
  - Copying an EBS volume across regions
- EBSoptimized instances
  - Using IOPS
XXX. Glacier
- Glacier overview
  - Use cases
  - Cost benefits
  - Data size limits
  - Region specific storage
  - Moving data in and out of Glacier
- Glacier Operations
  - Vaults
Creation and deletion
- Archives
- Jobs
- SNS notifications upon action completion
AWS Storage Gateway Overview
- Use cases
- Benefits
AWS Billing
- Resources used this month
- Month by month cost comparison
- Past billing and usage reports
- Set billing preferences
- Consolidated billing
- Set Cloudwatch Billing alerts
- AWS Cost simulator
  - Project Cost Planner
  - Estimate monthly bills
AWS Free tier for new accounts