Fundamentals Of AWS

It provides a detailed overview of cloud concepts, AWS core services, security, architecture, pricing, and support. Approximately 8 weeks course, detailed timings are provided below. Actual delivery times will vary from class to class and depending on the delivery format. AWS fundamentals are an introductory-level course intended for school students opting for technological career in Amazon AWS cloud computing vertical.

Student prerequisites: To ensure success in this course, students should have the following:

• General IT technical knowledge
• General online terminologies.

Week 1:

• Course Introduction
  
• Course objectives and overview
• AWS Certification exam information
• AWS documentation
  

Week 2:

• Cloud Concepts Overview
• Introduction to cloud computing
  
• Advantages of the cloud
  
• Introduction to AWS
  
• Moving to the AWS Cloud
  
• Activity: Knowledge check
  

Week 3:

• Cloud Economics and Billing
• Fundamentals of pricing
• Total cost of ownership
• Activity: Simple Monthly Calculator
• AWS billing and cost management
• Billing dashboards
• Technical support models
• Activity: knowledge check.

Week 4:

• AWS Global Infrastructure Overview
• AWS global infrastructure
• Demo: AWS global infrastructure.
• AWS services and service categories
• Activity: AWS Management Console Clickthrough.

Week 5:

• Cloud Security
• AWS shared responsibility model
• Activity: AWS Shared Responsibility Model
• AWS IAM
• Demo: AWS IAM Console
• Securing a new AWS account
• Lab: Introduction to AWS IAM
• Activity: knowledge check.

Week 6:

• Networking and Content Delivery
• Networking basics
• Amazon VPC
  
• VPC networking
  
• Route 53
  
• CloudFront
  

Week 7:

• Compute service
• Compute services overview
• Amazon EC2 part 1
• Amazon EC2 part 2
• Amazon EC2 part 3
• Demo: Amazon EC2
• Lab: Introduction to Amazon EC2
• Activity: Amazon EC2 Versus Managed Services
• Demo: Amazon EC2 Part Console
• Amazon EC2 cost optimization
• Serverless Computing
• Introduction to AWS Lambda
• Introduction to AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

Week 8:

• Storage
• AWS EBS
• Demo: Amazon Elastic Block Store Console
• Lab: Working with EBS
• AWS S3
• Demo: AWS S3 Console

Week 9:

• Databases
• Amazon RDS
• Demo: Amazon RDS Console
• Lab: Build a Database Server
• Amazon DynamoDB
• Demo: Amazon DynamoDB
• Amazon Redshift
• Amazon Aurora
• Activity: Database case study.
• Hands-on will be taken on actual AWS console.