AWS Introduction – designing and building cloud applications

Course objectives

Fast track introduction for ICT teams to Amazon Web Services technology.

Benefits

The participants acquire the following knowledge:

• computing and processing data in the cloud with Amazon Web Services
• designing secure distributed applications in the cloud
• Serverless technologies and architectures built in the Amazon Web Services cloud

The participants acquire the following capabilities:

• manage and control AWS cloud infrastructure security
• design cost optimal cloud architectures on the Amazon Web Services platform.
• design and build serverless applications with AWS components
• use the Python boto library to interact with the AWS infrastructure

Training scope

• Virtual servers in the cloud, Amazon EC2
  • types of EC2 instances, monitoring and metrics
  • EBS, EC2 instance state and data persistence
  • Amazon Machine Images (AMI) and Snapshots
  • Creating and configuring VPC, network security
• AWS identity and access management (IAM)
  • Creating and managing users, user types
  • Policies, groups and roles
  • Security and recommended best practices
• Storing data in the cloud with Amazon S3.
  • AWS S3 Glacier, object lifecycle management
  • Optimizing cloud processing with S3
• Relational database systems in the cloud (RDS)
  • MsSQL, Oracle, MySQL, Aurora, PostgreSQL
  • Administering data persistence in Amazon RDS (configuring master-slave, snapshots)
• Serverless architectures cased on AWS Lambda
  • Python boto programming interface
  • AWS Lambda, types of triggers, permissions
  • Decoupling serverless architectures, Amazon SQS, integration with other services
• DynamoDB
  • Designing a NoSQL database and integration issues
  • Indexes and autoscaling
• Introduction to data analysis and BI in the cloud – Redshift and Quicksight

Audience

Cloud infrastructure administrators, architects and developers of software implemented on the Amazon Web Services platform. Cloud migration teams. ICT managers.