Training & Consulting

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solutions Architect

Introduction to Cloud Computing

 A Short history
 Client Server Computing Concepts
 Challenges with Distributed Computing
 Introduction to Cloud Computing
 Why Cloud Computing?
 Benefits of Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing Deployment Models

 Private Cloud
 Public Cloud
 Hybrid Cloud

Cloud Delivery/Service Models

 Software as a Service (SaaS)
 Platform as a Service(PaaS)
 Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Linux Basics
 Linux basic Commands
 Linux basic Administration

Amazon Web Services(AWS)

Introduction to AWS services

 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2)

 Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
 Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
 Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
 Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
 Amazon DynamoDB
 Auto Scaling
 Amazon ElastiCache
 Identity and Access Management (IAM)
 Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
 Cloud Formation
 Simple Email Services (SES)
 Simple Queue Services (SQS)
 Simple Notification Services (SNS)
 Server less computing (Lambda)

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  Import/Export (Snowball)
 Code Commit
 Cloud Trail
 Elastic Beanstack
 Cloud Front
 Route-53
 Glacier
 Key Management Service (KMS)

Introduction to AWS

 Subscription to AWS
 Introduction to the AWS Management Console

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Essentials

 Regions and Availability Zones – Choose the right Region
 Amazon Machine Images (AMI)
 Working with AMIs
 Choosing the right AMI
 Deciding what goes into an AMI
 Finding the right AMI
 Pricing model in EC2 instances
 On-demand, Reserved, Scheduled, Spot instances, Dedicated Hosts
 EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace
 Importing and Exporting Instances

EC2 Instances
 Building an EC2 Windows instance & Linux Instance
 Boot strapping with user-data.
 Setting up security
 Security with Key Pairs
 Working with the Security Group
 Different IPs assigned to an EC2 instance
 Assigning Elastic IPs
 Login/Access to the instance
 Creating your own custom AMI, Registering & Granting access to the AMI
 Placement groups
 EC2 instance protection
 Instance Roles
 Importing and Exporting Instances
 Elastic Network Interfaces(ENIs)
 Resources and Tags
 Accessing Meta-Data & use cases.

Elastic Block Store (EBS)

 EBS Volume Types
 EBS Encryption
 EBS Performance
 Instance Store volumes
 Instance Stores Available on Instance Types
 Instance Store Usage Scenarios
 Adding Instance Store Volumes to an AMI

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  Optimizing Disk Performance
 Creating and deleting volumes
 Attaching and detaching volumes
 Mounting and Unmounting the attached volume
 Increasing the volume size
 Creating snapshots
 Creating Volumes & AMIs from Snapshots.
 Cross-Region snapshot copy & use cases.

Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)

 What Is Elastic Load Balancing

 How Elastic Load Balancing Works
 Classic & App ELB types.
 Creating load balancer
 Internal & External Load balancers
 Load balancing protocols
 Listener Configurations
 SSL Negotiation Configurations
 Attach & Detach Subnets
 Security groups for the load balancer
 Configure health check for the load balancer
 Adding multiple instance to the load balancer
 Custom Domain Names
 Cross-Zone Load Balancing
 DNS Failover
 Sticky Sessions
 Monitoring and Logging
 DNS Failover
 Sticky Sessions
 Monitoring and Logging
 Cross-zone load balancing
 Connection Draining
 ELB traffic logging

Auto Scaling

 What is auto scaling

 Auto scaling components
 Benefits of auto scaling
 Creating launch configuration, and its prerequisites.
 Creating Auto Scaling Groups (ASG)
 Attach & Detach EC2 Instances in ASG
 Configuration of auto scaling policies based on the Load on EC2 instances.
 Using Auto scaling with Elastic Load balancer (ELB).
 Temporarily Removing Instances
 Suspend and Resume Process
 Shut Down Your Auto Scaling Process
 Monitoring Your Auto Scaling Instances
 Health Checks
 Getting Notifications When Your Auto Scaling Group Changes

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Simple Storage Service (S3)

 Creating and deleting buckets

 Adding objects to buckets
 Getting objects
 Deleting objects
 Notifications
 Uses of S3 storage
 Working with Permissions of S3, Access Control, Bucket policy
 S3 Data encryption types
 Enable Versioning, Logging for S3 objects
 Lifecycle rules in s3
 Accessing S3 storage with Tools
 Hosting a Static Website
 Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
 Cross-region replication
 Audit Logging with AWS CloudTrail

Glacier Storage
 Creating Vaults
 Working with Archives
 Accessing the Glacier vault using tools
 Using Glacier for backups
 Job Operations
 Data Retrieval Policy Operations

Identity and Access management (IAM)

 Creation of user accounts
 Setting up multi factor Authentication (MFA)
 Roles in IAM
 Groups in IAM
 Delegation of permissions for users
 Creation of custom policies for delegation
 Using Identity Providers
 Cross-Account Access
 Account settings
 Credential Report
 Encryption - Key Management Service (KMS)

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

 Different types of networks that can be setup in AWS
 Creating a custom VPC
 NACLs & Security Groups
 Creation of Internet Gateway(IGW)
 Connecting to instances in the gateway
 Subnets, Route Tables & Association
 NAT Instances & NAT-Gateways
 DHCP Options Sets & DNS
 VPC Peering
 VPN overview & components

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Route 53

 Configuring Amazon Route 53 as Your DNS Service

 Registering a Domain Name and Configuring Amazon Route 53 as the DNS Service
 Migrating DNS Service for an Existing Domain to Amazon Route 53
 Creating a Subdomain That Uses Amazon Route 53 without Migrating the Parent
Domain
 Working with Public Hosted Zones
 Working with Private Hosted Zones
 Working with Resource Record Sets
 Health Checks and DNS Failover
 Creating, Updating, and Deleting Health Checks
 Transferring a Domain from a Different AWS Account or Registrar
 Using IAM to Control Access to Amazon Route 53 Resources

Cloud watch
 Debugging cloud related issues
 Monitoring the AWS Service Health Dashboard
 Monitoring with Cloud watch
 Getting statistics for a specific EC2 instance
 Getting aggregated statistics
 Metrics for other AWS Services and related namespaces
 Setting up notifications

Simple Notification Services (SNS)

 Creation of a topic
 Subscribing to topic via Email
 Setting notification for EC2 instance changes

Simple Queue Service (SQS)

 Creation of a queue
 Sending messages to the queue
 Sending SNS to SQS
 Retrieving messages from SQS

Simple Email Services (SES)

 Setting up email domain
 Limits of SES
 Test Email setup

Elastic Beanstalk
 Creation of Web-App using Elastic Beanstalk
 Building a sample application using Beanstalk
 Modifying the properties of the deployment.

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Relational Database Service (RDS)
 DB Instances
 Selecting the DB-Engine
 Configuring the Database Server
 Creating your Database
 Setting up automatic backups, snapshots & restores
 Authorizing access to the DB with RDS Security Groups
 DB Instance Replication
 Security: Using IAM to Manage Access to Amazon RDS Resources
 RDS Limits
 Managing MySql Database server
 DB Instance Life Cycle: Renaming a DB Instance
 Deleting or Rebooting a DB Instance
 Working with Storage Types
 Upgrading a DB Instance
 Working with Option Groups & DB Parameter Groups
 Working with Reserved DB Instances
 Monitoring
 Database Log Files

Cloud Front
 How CloudFront Delivers Content
 Working with Distributions
 Working with Web Distributions
 Working with Objects
 Request and Response Behaviour
 Serving Private Content through CloudFront
 Using an HTTPS Connection to Access Your Objects
 Using IAM to Control Access to CloudFront Resources
 Monitoring CloudFront Activity Using CloudWatch

ElastiCache
 ElastiCache Terminology and Concepts
 Backup and Restore
 Clusters Explanation ( Memcached and Redis )
 CloudWatch Metrics with ElastiCache
 Managing ElastiCache
 Managing Replication Groups
 DNS Names and Underlying IP

Cloud Formation
 Building AWS infrastructure as a code
 Utilization of Sample templates
 Introduction to JSON

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Use Cases
 Cloud Architecture Best Practices
 Cost Optimization
 Security Considerations
 Cost Calculation
 AWS CLI & use case to check instance, ELB, EBS states
 Building a simple web application in the AWS cloud
 Certification Track & guidance

Abstracts:
1. Introduction to Cloud Computing
Learning Objectives - What Cloud Computing and what are the different models of Cloud
Computing along with the key differentiators of different models, services and concepts.
Topics - Introduction to Cloud Computing, AWS Architecture, AWS Management Console, Setting up
AWS Account.

2. Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS

Learning Objectives - Introduction to compute offering from AWS EC2. Different instance types and
Amazon AMIs. A demo on launching an AWS EC2 instance, connect to an instance and hosting a
website on AWS EC2 instance. We will also cover EBS storage Architecture (AWS persistent
storage) and the concepts of AMI and snapshots.
Topics - Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Demo of AMI Creation, Backup, Restore, EC2 Services and
EBS
persistent storage.

3. Amazon Storage Services: S3, RRS, CloudWatch

Learning Objectives - Various kind of scalable storage services like S3, RRS and learn how to host
a static website on AWS. Monitoring AWS resources and setting up alerts and notifications for AWS
resources and AWS usage billing with AWS CloudWatch.
Topics - AWS Storage Services: S3, RRS & Glacier, Amazon Cloud Watch, Alerts,
Notification.

4. Scaling and Load Distribution in AWS

Learning Objectives - 'Scaling' and 'Load distribution techniques' in AWS. A demo of Load
distribution
& Scaling resources horizontally based on time or
activity.
Topics - Amazon Scaling Service: ELB and Auto
Scaling.

5. AWS VPC & Route 53

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Learning Objectives - Introduction to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud. We will cover how you can
make public and private subnet with AWS VPC. A demo on creating VPC, overview of AWS Route
53.
Topics - Amazon VPC with subnets, Gateways, Route tables and Amazon Route 53
overview.

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6. Identity and Access Management (IAM) Techniques and Managed
Relational Database (RDS)
Learning Objectives - Distribution of access control with AWS using IAM. We will talk about the
managed relational database service of AWS called RDS.
Topics - Amazon IAM Overview, Amazon RDS.

7. Multiple AWS Services and Managing the Resources' Lifecycle

Learning Objectives - Manage life cycle of AWS resources and follow the DevOps model in AWS.
Notification and email service of AWS along with Content Distribution Service in this module.
Topics - AWS CloudFront, AWS DynamoDB, AWS Import / Export, Overview of AWS Products such
as Elastic Beanstalk, Cloud Formation, AWS OpsWorks, SES.

8. AWS Architecture and Design

Learning Objectives - Architecture and design aspects of AWS. Cost planning and optimization
techniques along with AWS security best practices, High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery
(DR) in AWS.

Topics - AWS Backup and DR Setup, AWS High Availability Design, AWS Best Practices (Cost
+Security), AWS Calculator & Consolidated
Billing.

9. Migrating to Cloud & AWS Case Study

Learning Objectives - How to migrate to cloud. Also we discuss a case study for AWS
Implementation.
Topics - AWS Cloud Migration guidelines. AWS Case
Study.

10. Project
Learning Objectives – A demo of an AWS Project using a real-life case study. This module will also
have a Question and Answer session to prepare associates for AWS certifications.
Topics - Hands on Labs, Q/A, Overview of AWS
Certification.

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