Introduction to Cloud Computing

• A Short history
• Client Server Computing Concepts
• Challenges with Distributed Computing
• Introduction to Cloud Computing
• Why Cloud Computing?
• Benefits of Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing Deployment Models

• Private Cloud
• Public Cloud
• Hybrid Cloud

Cloud Delivery Models

• Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Platform as a Service(PaaS)
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Introduction to AWS:

• Subscription to AWS
• AWS Free tier – Limits and usage
• Introduction to the AWS Management Console

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Essentials

• Regions and Availability Zones – How to choose the right one
• Amazon Machine Images (AMI)
• Working with AMIs
• Choosing the right AMI
• Deciding what goes into an AMI
• Finding the right AMI
• Pricing model in EC2 instances
• Deciding between On-demand instances, Spot instances, Reserved instances, Scheduled Instances, Dedicated Hosts
• EC2 Reserved Instance
• AWS Marketplace

EC2 Instances

• Building an EC2 Windows instance & Linux Instance
• Setting up security
• Security via Key Pairs
• Working with the Security Group
• Different IPs assigned to an EC2 instance
• Assigning Elastic IPs
• Logging into the instance
• Creating your own AMI/Registering your own AMI
• What is a placement group and advantages of placement groups
• EC2 instance protection
• User Data Management
• AWS Simple System Manager (SSM)

Elastic Block Store (EBS)

• Creating and deleting volumes
• Attaching and detaching volumes
• Mounting and Unmounting the attached volume
• Creating snapshots
• Increasing the volume size

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

Auto Scaling:

• What is auto scaling?
• Autoscaling components
• Benefits of autoscaling
• Creation of launch configuration
• Configuration of autoscaling policies based on the Load on EC2 instances.
• Advantages of using Auto scaling with Elastic Load balancer (ELB).

Simple Storage Service (S3)

• Creating and deleting buckets
• Adding objects to buckets
• Getting objects
• Deleting objects
• Creation of a static website using S3 storage
• Uses of S3 storage
• Working with Permissions of S3.
• Life cycle management in S3
• Accessing S3 storage via Tools

Glacier Storage:

• Creating Vaults
• Accessing the Glacier vault using tools
• Using Glacier for backups
• Retrieval period

Identity and Access management (IAM)

• Creation of user accounts in AWS
• Setting up multi factor Authentication (MFA)
• Roles in IAM
• Groups in IAM
• Delegation of permissions for users
• Creation of custom policies for delegation
• Account settings
• Credential Report

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

• Different types of networks that can be setup in AWS
• Creating a new VPC
• ACL & Security Groups
• Creation of Internet Gateway
• Connecting to instances in the gateway

Cloudwatch

• 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

Simple Notification Services (SNS)

• Creation of a topic
• Subscribing to topic via Email
• Setting notification for EC2 instance changes

Simple Queue Service (SQS)

• Creation of a queue
• Sending messages to the queue
• Setting SNS to SQS
• Retrieving messages from SQS

Route 53:

• Route 53 Overview
• Setup internal DNS Namespace
• Creating different records in Route 53

Elastic Beanstalk

• Creation of Web apps using Elastic Beanstalk
• Environment overview
• Migrating content in different environments.
• Modifying the properties of the deployment.

Relational Database Service (RDS)

• Selecting the Engine
• Configuring the Database Engine
• Creating your Database
• Setting up automatic backups
• Authorizing access to the DB via DB Security Groups