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AWS in Practice: From Your First Account to a Certification-Ready Architecture

Build and operate infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (IAM, EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, load balancing, serverless, monitoring, costs) and prepare for the Cloud Practitioner and Solutions Architect Associate certifications.

  • Beginner to intermediate
  • 12 lessons
  • 10 h 30 min

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What you will learn

  • Open and secure an AWS account, choose a region and drive AWS with the CLI
  • Write IAM policies in JSON and use roles rather than access keys
  • Launch EC2 instances with the right AMI, the right type and a user data script
  • Build a VPC with public and private subnets, NAT, security groups and NACLs
  • Host files and a static website on S3 with versioning and lifecycle rules
  • Manage EBS volumes, EFS shares, snapshots and Multi-AZ RDS databases
  • Put an application behind an Application Load Balancer with Auto Scaling
  • Publish a domain with Route 53 and speed up a website with CloudFront
  • Create a serverless API with Lambda and API Gateway
  • Monitor with CloudWatch, audit with CloudTrail and keep the bill under control
  • Practise for the Cloud Practitioner and Solutions Architect Associate exams

Course content

12 lessons · 10 h 30 min
Section 1 — Foundations4 lessons · 3 h 15 min
  1. Getting started with AWS — account, console, regions, free tier and AWS CLI Preview40 min
  2. IAM — users, groups, roles and JSON policies 50 min
  3. EC2 — instances, AMIs, instance types, key pairs and user data 50 min
  4. VPC — public and private subnets, gateways, routing, security groups and network ACLs 55 min
Section 2 — Core services4 lessons · 3 h 30 min
  1. S3 — buckets, policies, versioning, lifecycle and static website 55 min
  2. EBS, EFS and snapshots — disks, network shares and backups 50 min
  3. RDS and managed databases 50 min
  4. ELB and Auto Scaling — distribute the load and adjust the number of servers 55 min
Section 3 — Advanced services3 lessons · 2 h 45 min
  1. Route 53 and CloudFront — DNS, routing policies and content delivery 55 min
  2. Lambda and API Gateway — a serverless API 55 min
  3. CloudWatch, CloudTrail and cost control 55 min
Section 4 — Certification1 lesson · 1 h
  1. Preparing for Cloud Practitioner and Solutions Architect Associate — practice exam 1 h

Requirements

  • The “Cloud Fundamentals” course or equivalent knowledge
  • Comfortable with a Linux terminal and SSH

Who is this course for?

  • System administrators and technicians who manage or migrate servers to AWS
  • Startup developers and DevOps engineers who deploy on AWS
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner and Solutions Architect Associate certification candidates