Introduction

Introduction to Amazon Webservices – Services Overview and AWS Infrastructure overview

Preparatory Topics – Virtualization, Networking and Storage concepts

AWS Management Console and AWS Account

Amazon EC2

Amazon EBS

Amazon VPC

Hands-on activity: Creating a VPC, Creating instances (VMs) on EC2 and configuring all necessary services, attaching EBS volumes, Elastic IPs, etc.

Overview – Object Storage, file shares and their use cases

Amazon S3, Glacier, (File Share Service), CloudFront

Amazon Cloudwatch – Monitoring service

Hands-on activity: Creating S3 buckets, putting and getting objects from S3, hosting a static website on S3.

Amazon ELB

Amazon Auto-scaling

Hands-on activity – configuration of auto-scaling rules and using them to automatically scale EC2 instances

AWS Database services overview

Hands-on activity – creating RDS instances, configuring Multi-AZ failover, accessing a database hosted on RDS.

AWS IAM overview

WS Devops services overview

Hands-on activitiy – Configuring a Git repository on Codecommit and working with the repository

Brief introduction to Infrastructure

Brief introduction to Infrastructure AWS Services Overview

Hands-on activity – creating and working with cloudformation templates and deploying a Stack using them.

AWS Services Overview – Application Services

Architecting with AWS

High Availability Design, Backup and DR

Cost Estimation using Simple Monthly Calculator

Hands-on Activity – configuring Simple Email Service (SES)

Brief introduction to Hadoop and Big-Data

AWS Service Overview – Elastic Mapreduce (EMR)

Q&A session for all previously covered topics, preparation tips for AWS SA-Associate Level Certification exam.

Hands-on workshop/Project: Deploying a 3-tier web-application using AWS services.

Bonus: Brief introduction to Vagrant and Chef.

Hands-on workshop/Project: Automated deployment of Test/Dev environments using Vagrant, Chef and AWS.