AWS Technical Essentials (AWSE) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Module 1: AWS introduction and history

  • AWS Global Infrastructure
  • Demonstration: AWS Management Console

Module 2: Compute, network and storage services

  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
  • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
  • Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
  • Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
  • Demonstration: Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
  • Hands-on lab: Build your VPC and launch a web server

Module 3: AWS Security, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

  • AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Demonstration: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Module 4: Databases (RDS, DynamoDB)

  • SQL and NoSQL databases
  • Data storage considerations
  • Hands-on lab: Build your database server and connect to it

Module 5: AWS elasticity and management tools

  • Auto scaling
  • Load balancing
  • Cloud Watch
  • Trusted Advisor
  • Hands-on lab: Scale and load balance your architecture