Introduction to Cloud Computing
● Introduction to Cloud Computing
● Benefits of Cloud Computing
● Types of Clouds – Public, Private, Hybrid
● IAAS, PAAS, SAAS
● Introduction to AWS and its offerings

VPC and network fundamentals
● Basics of networking, public and private IP address ranges, subnetting
● Introduction to VPC, subnets, Internet Gateway, Route Tables
● Security Groups, NACLs
● VPC peering
● VPC flow logs
● Lab on VPC

EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) & EBS (Elastic Block Storage)
● Introduction to EC2, AMIs, different Instance types
● EC2 pricing – On demand, Spot Instances, Reserved and Saving plans
● Introduction to EBS, types of EBS volumes, encryption
● AMIs and Snapshots
● AWS CLI – install, configure and commands
● User-data script, instance metadata URL and placement group
● NAT – EC2 Instance as a NAT gateway, managed NAT
● Lab on EC2- Launch a Linux instance, windows instance, using Putty/Git Bash for SSH
connection, configure the Linux server on boot using user-data script, install apache web
server, create AMI from an instance, attach an additional EBS volume, format and
mount the EBS volume, resize EBS volume and configure Linux instance to automount
the volume post OS reboot

IAM

● IAM overview
● IAM policy
● API keys
● Users, groups, roles in IAM
● Federated accounts/AWS console login – SAML to AWS STS conversion extension for
Chrome, credentials file (.aws folder) for AWS CLI
● Lab on IAM – create custom IAM policies, create users and groups, assigning IAM
policies to users, groups and roles, configuring MFA

S3 (Simple Storage Service)

● S3 Buckets, S3 durability and redundancy, Uploading/Downloading objects, S3
Permissions, bucket policies, encryption, S3 Object Versioning, Static Web hosting, S3
Lifecycle Policies, cross region replication, transfer acceleration, CORS configuration
● Lab on S3

Glacier

• Introduction to Vaults, Benefits and limitations of glacier, Durability of Glacier, retrieval
  times

EFS

● EFS overview
● Use cases of EFS, how instances access EFS

Snowball

● Snowball overview
● Types of Snowball
● How Snowball works? When to use Snowball?

● Storage Gateway overview

Auto Scaling

● Introduction to launch configuration, scaling policies and auto scaling group
● Lab on Auto scaling

Load Balancers

● Types of Load balancers
● Application load balancers Vs Elastic Load Balancers
● Routing rules in application load balancers
● Lab on Load Balancers – Create a highly available, highly scalable, load balanced
application using auto scaling and load balancers

Database and related service offerings:
● Different Databases available in RDS
● Benefits of RDS over self-administered RDBMs
● Automatic backups, snapshots and point in time recovery
● Scaling up RDS instances, read replicas, cross region read replicas
● Multi AZ deployments VS read replicas
● Monitoring RDS instances
● Lab on RDS – Deploying a WordPress application on EC2 and RDS
● Concepts around – Redshift, Aurora, ElastiCache

CloudFront

●CloudFront overview

● Benefits of serving content through CloudFront
● Deploying CloudFront in front of AWS and non-AWS origins
● Configure origins, Behaviors and geo restrictions
● Lab on CloudFront

Route 53

● Route53 overview
● Different types of DNS records A, AAAA, CNAME, ALIAS, TXT
● Different routing policies
● Health checks and failover
● Lab on Route53 – Create a hosted zone, host DNS records for a domain name, and make
WordPress accessible over that domain

AWS Certificate Manager
● AWS Certificate Manager overview
● Lab on AWS: Request SSL certificate for a domain name, apply the certificate to
CloudFront Distribution and load balancers

Lambda
● Lambda overview

● Advantages of lambda/serverless
● Lab on Lambda – schedule start/stop of EC2 instances using Lambda and CloudWatch
events

DynamoDB
● DynamoDB overview
● RDBMS vs Relational Databases
● Lab on DynamoDB – Create a DynamoDB table, add and retrieve data, monitor
DynamoDB

API Gateway
● API gateway overview

SNS

● SNS overview
● Lab on SNS

SQS
● SQS overview
● SQS vs SNS
● SES vs SNS
● Visibility timeout, Long polling VS short polling

CloudWatch
● CloudWatch overview
● Metrices available for different AWS services.

● CloudWatch logs and CloudWatch Events.
● Lab on CloudWatch – Create custom Dashboards, configure alerts, create billing alarm

CloudTrail
● CloudTrail overview
● Lab on CloudTrail
AWS Config
● AWS Config overview
● Lab on AWS Config

CloudFormation
● CloudFormation/Infrastructure as code
● Introduction to JSON/YAML
● CloudFormation template and stacks
● Lab on CloudFormation

Systems Manager
● AWS Systems Manager Overview
● Automation functionalities available within systems manager
● Parameter Store
● Lab on Systems Manager.

SA Advanced concepts
● ENIs and secondary IP addresses
● Using IPV6 inside VPC
● Egress Only Internet Gateways
● VPC Endpoints
● Direct connect/VPN, Bastion host
● Cross Account access and AWS Organizations

Security

• Security Token Service
• S3 presigned URLs
• KMS
• S3 performance optimization
• SWF overview/concept