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AWS Study Guide

The document provides an overview of topics that will be covered in 5 modules on AWS. The topics discussed in the first module include cloud computing concepts, AWS services, global infrastructure, and availability. Hands-on exercises cover creating an S3 bucket and launching an EC2 instance. The second module covers security management using IAM and KMS. Hands-on exercises include user management, policies, and API keys. The third module discusses object storage options like S3, EBS, EFS and hands-on with S3. The fourth module is on EC2 covering AMIs, security groups, storage, and hands-on to host a website on EC2. The fifth module is on load balancing, auto-scaling and

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AWS Study Guide

The document provides an overview of topics that will be covered in 5 modules on AWS. The topics discussed in the first module include cloud computing concepts, AWS services, global infrastructure, and availability. Hands-on exercises cover creating an S3 bucket and launching an EC2 instance. The second module covers security management using IAM and KMS. Hands-on exercises include user management, policies, and API keys. The third module discusses object storage options like S3, EBS, EFS and hands-on with S3. The fourth module is on EC2 covering AMIs, security groups, storage, and hands-on to host a website on EC2. The fifth module is on load balancing, auto-scaling and

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1.

      Introduction To AWS
 
Learning Objectives: In this module, you will learn about the different services provided by AWS.
You will be provided with an overview of important resources required for architecting an
application.

Topics:

 Cloud and Cloud Computing Preview

 Cloud Computing Service Models

 Cloud Computing Deployment Models

 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Preview

 AWS Global Infrastructure

 AWS Regions and Replication of Data between the Regions

 Availability in AWS and How to Measure Availability

 High Availability and Availability Zones

 AWS Edge Location

 AWS Services

 AWS CLI, SDKs And Management Console

Hands-on:

 Sign-up for AWS free-tier account

 Create a S3 bucket through Console

 Create a S3 bucket through AWS CLI

 Launch an EC2 instance

 
2.      Security Management In AWS
 

Learning Objectives: In this module, you will learn about security management in AWS using
Identity Access Management (IAM) and Key Management Service.

Topics:

 Identity and Access Management (IAM) Preview

 Components of IAM

 Managing Users with IAM

 Managing Permissions with Groups

 IAM Policy and Its Elements

 Best Practices of IAM

 Identity and Credential Management

 Access and Permission Management

 Delegation and Audit

 Creating API Keys for Accessing AWS Services

 Key Management System (KMS) and its Usage

 AWS Billings

 AWS Alerts and How to create Alerts

Hands-on:

 Create new users who can log in to AWS console

 Create a role for an application to access S3

 Create policies for new user to have either admin or limited privileges

 Credential rotation for IAM users

 Login to AWS console via MFA

 Create API keys for accessing AWS Services

 Create a Budget

 
3.      Object Storage Options
 

Learning Objectives: In this module, you will learn about the different Object Storage Services
offered by AWS, identify when to use a specific service, how to store/transfer data using these
services and optimize the storage cost.

Topics:

 Traditional Storage

 Need to move to the cloud storage

 Traditional Vs Cloud Storage (Cost)

 Cloud Storage

 Working of S3

 Difference Between S3, EBS, and EFS

 Bucket Policy

 Access Control List (ACL)

 Versioning

 Cross-Region Replication (CRR) and its Use case

 Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

 Choice of Storage Classes on S3

 Life Cycle Policy of S3 Bucket

 Access S3 And Glacier

 CloudFront and Snowball Preview

 Storage Gateway Preview

 Different modes of Gateway: File, Volume and Tape Gateway

Hands-on:

 Hosting a Static Website on Amazon S3

 Versioning in AWS S3

 Replicating data across regions

 S3 Transfer acceleration

 Transfer and retrieve data from Glacier through lifecycle policy

 Upload a file to AWS S3 through a Website

 Accessing a static website through Cloud Front


 4.      Amazon EC2
 

Learning Objectives: EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is the backbone of AWS. In this module, you will
learn about the concepts associated with an EC2 instance and their usage. This module covers
different Amazon AMIs, a demo on launching an AWS EC2 instance, ways to connect with an
instance and how to host a website on AWS EC2 instance.

Topics:

 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and its benefits Preview

 Amazon Machine Image (AMI) Preview

 Security Groups In AWS

 Authentication Through Key-Pair

 Hardware Tenancy – Shared v/s Dedicated

 The network layer in EC2: VPC

 Elastic Network Interface and its Attributes Preview

 Different Categories of IP Address

 Public IP v/s Elastic IP

 AWS Storage Services and how to select them

 Instance Store

 Elastic Block Store (EBS), its features and volume types

 Solid State Drive: General Purpose SSD and Provisioned IOPS

 Hard Disk Drive: Throughput Optimized HDD and Cold HDD

 Snapshots

 Elastic File System (EFS) and its Features

 EBS v/s EFS

Hands-on:

 Host your website inside EC2

 Create an AMI

 Create an Elastic IP

 Attaching an EBS volume externally

 To create a snapshot

 Mount EFS volumes


 

5.      Load Balancing, Auto-Scaling And Route 53


 

Learning Objectives : In this module, you will learn the concepts of Load Balancing, Auto-Scaling
and Route 53 to manage traffic.

Topics:

 Elastic Load Balancer

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