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  • Introduction to Cloud and AWS

    • Cloud service model
    • AWS Introduction
    • AWS Global Infrastructure
    • AWS Region, Availability Zones

  • Networking

    • Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
    • CIDR
    • Subnet, Internet Gateway, Route Tables
    • NACL and Security Group
    • NAT Gateway
    • VPC Peering
    • VPN and Direct Connect
    • Transit Gateway


    Hands-on Exercises:

    • » Create Custom VPC
    • » Setup Public Subnet
    • » Setup Private Subnet
    • » Setup NAT 
    • » Setup Internet Gateway
    • » Setup Route Tables
    • » Setup NACL
    • » Work with VPC Peering Connection
    • » Amazon Elastic IP
    • » Setting up AWS Config
    • » Establish a Client-Side VPN



  • Compute

    • Compute Virtualization
    • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    • Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
    • AWS Reservation Models
    • Elastic Network Interface (ENI)
    • EC2 back-up Techniques


    Hands-on Exercises:

    • » Launching an EC2 instance
    • » Setup Linux instance - bastion host
    • » Setup Linux instance - private
    • » Setup windows Bastion host
    • » Setup Security Group
    • » Connect to other instance in private subnet
    • » Creating an AMI of the launched instance
    • » Copying the AMI to another region

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  • Storage

    • Instance Store
    • Elastic Block Store (EBS)
    • Elastic File System (EFS)
    • Simple Storage Service (S3)
    • Cross-Region Replication (CRR)
    • Archive Storage
    • Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
    • Storage Gateway
    • Snowball
    • Glacier Vault Lock and S3 Object Lock


    Hands-on Exercises:

    • » Creating an EBS volume
    • » Attaching the EBS volume with an instance
    • » Taking backup of an EBS volume
    • » Creating an EFS volume and mounting the EFS volume to two instances
    • » Setup FSx for Windows
    • » Creating an S3 bucket
    • » Uploading objects to the S3 bucket
    • » Enabling object versioning in the S3 bucket
    • » Setting up lifecycle Management



  • Linux

  • Database

    • Database and Types of AWS Database Services
    • Amazon RDS
    • SQL and NOSQL Databases
    • Amazon DynamoDB
    • Amazon ElastiCache, Memcached and Redis
    • Amazon Aurora


    Hands-on Exercises:

    • » Launching a MySQL RDS instance
    • » Modifying an RDS instance
    • » Connecting to the DB instance from your machine
    • » Creating a Multi-Availability Zone Deployment
    • » Creating a DynamoDB table
    • » Create an Aurora DB cluster
    • » Creating an Aurora replica

  • Monitoring and Audit

    • CloudWatch
    • Dashboards, Metrics, Namespaces, Alarms
    • CloudTrail


    Hands-on Exercises:

    • » Creating a CloudWatch dashboard and add metrics
    • » Create a CloudWatch alarm which triggers according to CPU Utilization of an EC2 instance
    • » Monitor Memory Utilization of an EC2 Instance
    • » Enable CloudTrail and store logs in S3

  • Application and Messaging Services

    • Simple Email Service (SES)
    • Simple Notification Service (SNS)
    • Simple Queue Service (SQS)


    Hands-on Exercise:

    • » Event- Driven Architectures using AWS Lambda, SES, SNS and SQS

  • Load Balancer and Auto Scaling

    • Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
    • Application vs Network vs Gateway
    • Load Balancer Troubleshoot
    • Auto Scaling


    Hands-on Exercises:

    • » Creating a Network LB
    • » Creating an Application LB
    • » Creating an Auto-scaling Group
    • » Create Launch Template for Auto-scaling Group
    • » Integrating ELB with Auto Scaling

  • DNS

    • Route 53
    • Routing Policies


    Hands-on Exercise:

    • » Map DNS using Route 53

  • Security

    • Identity and Access Management (IAM)
    • Best Practices of IAM
    • Creating API Keys for accessing AWS Services
    • Key Management System (KMS)
    • WAF and Shield
    • GuardDuty


    Hands-on Exercises:

    • » Creating IAM users and a group
    • » Creating an IAM policy and attach it to the group
    • » Creating an IAM role
    • » Setup MFA for a user
    • » Enable Multi-Factor Authentication
    • » AWS KMS - create and use
    • »  Block web traffic with WAF

  • Configuration Management and Automation

    • Infrastructure as a Code (IaaS)
    • CloudFormation
    • SSM

  • AWS Services

    AWS Services Overview

  • Architectures in AWS

    • AWS Well Architected Framework
    • Pillars of AWS Well Architected Framework
    • Highly Available and/or Fault-Tolerant Architecture
    • Resilient Storage
    • Decoupling Mechanism Using AWS
    • Multi-tier Architecture Solution
    • Disaster Recovery Implementation plans

  • Serverless and event-driven Architectures

    AWS Lambda