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AWS (Amazon Web Services) Administration
Course Contents
Introduction to Cloud Computing
Understanding Computing Concepts
Challenges with Distributed Computing
Introduction to Cloud Computing
Challenges in onsite datacenter
Why Cloud Computing
Benefits of Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing Models (Private, Public & Hybrid)
Software as a Service (SAAS)
Platform as Service (PAAS)

Introduction to AWS
What is AWS?
Why we go for AWS?
History of AWS and Services of AWS
Understanding the regions
Understanding Available zones (AZ's)
Understanding the edge locations
Introduction to the AWS products & Services
Understanding the market place
Understanding the various components of AWS
Understanding the AWS Certification path

Elastic Compute Cloud Essentials (EC2)
Introduction to the AWS Management Console
Regions and Availability Zones - How to choose the right one
Amazon Machine Images (AMI)
Finding the right AMI
Launching an instance (Linux & Win) - How to choose the right instance type
Security via Key Pairs
Working with the Security Group
Assigning Elastic IPs
Logging into the instance
Hands-on-Lab on EC2

Instances and operations
Use standard AWS infrastructure features such as Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC),
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2),
Creating and accessing both Windows & Linux Servers from console and Command Line Interface (CLI)
Build functioning virtual private networks with Amazon VPC from the ground up using the AWS
Deploy Amazon EC2 instances using command line calls
Monitor the health of Amazon EC2 instances and other AWS services
Manage user identity, AWS permissions, and security in the cloud
Manage resource consumption in an AWS account using an Amazon Cloud Watch and Trusted Advisor
Select and implement the best strategy for creating reusable Amazon EC2 instances
Configure an EC2 Server that launch behind a load balancer, with the system scaling up and down
Edit and troubleshoot a basic AWS Cloud Formation stack definition
Deciding between On-demand instances, Spot instances & Reserved instances
EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace
Troubleshoot the most common problems with instances
Hands-on-Lab on EC2 Operations

Working with AMIs
Understanding Amazon Machine Image (IAM)
Choosing the right AMI
Creating your own AMI
Deciding what goes into an AMI
Migrating OS across the regions through AMI
Hands-on-Lab on AMI

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Creating and deleting volumes
Attaching and detaching volumes
Mounting and Unmounting the attached volume
Creating snapshots and managing snapshots
Recovering the volumes with snapshot
Migrating volumes from one region to another region
Hands-on-Lab on EBS

Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
Creating a load balancer
Internal Load balancer
External Load balancer
Load balancing protocols
Security groups for the load balancer
Configure health check for the load balancer
Adding multiple instances to the load balancer
Cross-zone load balancing
Connection Draining
Hands-on-Lab on ELB

Auto Scaling
What is auto scaling?
Auto scaling components
Benefits of auto scaling
Creation of launch configuration
Configuration of auto scaling policies based on the Load on EC2 instances.
Advantages of using Auto scaling
Hands-on-Lab on Auto scaling

Identity and access management (IAM)
Understanding IAM in AWS
Creating and managing user accounts in AWS
Creating and managing Groups in IAM
Creating and assigning roles in IAM
Delegation of permissions for users
Creation of custom policies for delegation
Setting up multi factor Authentication (MFA)
Managing Account settings
Understanding report and generating Credential Report
Hands-on-Lab on IAM

Simple Storage Service (S3)
Creating and managing S3 buckets
Managing objects in the S3 buckets
Managing AWS S3 with Command Line Interface (CLI)
Creation of a static website using S3 storage
Uses of S3 storage
Working with Permissions of S3.
Discussing lifecycles in s3
Deploying website on S3 storage
Accessing S3 storage via Tools (s3 Browser & Cloud berry)
Hands-on-Lab on S3

Amazon Glacier Storage
Creating Vaults
Accessing the Glacier vault using tools
Using Glacier for backups
Retrieval period
Hands-on-Lab on Glacier

AWS Networking (VPC)
Understanding network components in AWS
VPC Essentials
Building A Non-Default VPC
VPC Networking & Security
Configuring A NAT Instance
DB Subnet Groups
ACL & Security Groups
Elastic IP Addresses and Elastic Network Interfaces
Troubleshooting Connectivity Issues
Hands-on-Lab on VPC

Relational Database Service
Understanding db operations in AWS
Selecting the Engine
Configuring the Database Engine
Creating your Database
Setting up automatic backups
Authorizing access to the DB via DB Security Groups
Hands-on-Lab on Database on AWS

Clouds 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
Use Cloud Watch To Monitor An Instance Dedicated To Monitoring
Monitoring the Elastic Load Balancer For Performance And Availability
Hands-on-Lab on Cloud Watch

Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Understanding SNS
Understanding TOPIC
Creating and managing TOPIC
Publish to a TOPIC
Configuring the subscriptions
Configuring and managing alerts to various Services
Sending messages to Mobile
Configuring SNS to send the messages to HTTP/HTTPS
Integrating SNS with Cloud watch and monitoring the alerts
Hands-On-Lab on Simple Notification Service (SNS)

Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Creation of a queue
Sending messages to the queue
Setting SNS to SQS
Retrieving messages from SQS
Hands-on-Lab on SQS

AWS Cloud Formation
Understanding the AWS cloud formation
Understanding Stack in AWS
Building AWS infrastructure as a code
Utilization of Sample templates
Managing the stack in S3
Building EC2 Instance with Cloud formation
Introduction to JSON
Troubleshooting issue from cloud formation
Hands-on-Lab on Cloud formation
Hands-on projects execution with two Projects using AWS

Server Migration
Migration of Physical Server to
Configuring the server migration connector
Network configuration for Connector
Migrationg the VM Server from VMware to AWS.
Replicating VMs using the CLI
Updating the Connector
Re-Register the Connector
Demo on migration
Troubleshooting
Hands On Lab on Server Migration

Hands On Projects
AWS Server Migration (Between Regions)
On premises Physical Server Migration
On premises VMware Server Migration
Website Deployment and migration
Storage Migration

Interview, Exam Preparation

Review the whole topics
Resume Preparation
Interview Q/A
Documents Review
Contacts Sharing