AWS Technical Essentials

AWS Technical Essentials is a 1-day, instructor-led, fundamental level course that introduces the essential AWS services and common solutions. Precisely, it covers the fundamental AWS concepts related to compute, database, storage, networking, monitoring, and security.

Learners will gain understanding on how to build, compare, and apply highly available, fault tolerant, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions.

Who should attend

The target audience for the Architecting on AWS course are:

• Individuals responsible for articulating the technical benefits of AWS services to customers
• Individuals interested in learning how to get started with AWS
• SysOps administrators
• Solutions architects
• Developers

Prerequisites

No prior cloud computing or AWS experience is required but we recommend that attendees of this course have:

• IT experience
• Basic knowledge of common data center architectures and components (servers, networking, databases, applications, and so on)

What will you learn

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Describe terminology and concepts related to AWS services
• Navigate the AWS Management Console
• Articulate key concepts of AWS security measures and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Distinguish among several AWS compute services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
• Understand AWS database and storage offerings, including Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
• Explore AWS networking services
• Access and configure Amazon CloudWatch monitoring features

The course outline is as follows:

• Introduction to Amazon Web Services
• AWS Compute
• AWS Networking
• AWS Storage
• Databases
• Monitoring, Optimization, and Serverless
• Course Summary