KEY SKILLS YOU WILL DEVELOP
Learn fundamental concepts of cloud computing and including storage, database, networking, virtualization, containers, and cloud architecture
Create an AWS Free Tier account and launch your first virtual servers (Amazon EC2 instances) on the AWS Cloud
Configure elasticity, high availability and fault tolerance using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling and Amazon Elastic Load Balancing
Create and configure storage services and upload files and objects using Amazon EBS, Amazon EFS and Amazon S3
Launch a relational database on Amazon RDS and a NoSQL database using Amazon DynamoDB
Automatically deploy infrastructure using code through AWS CloudFormation
Create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Learn how to use DevOps tools on AWS to automate a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline
Implement serverless computing and Docker containers on AWS using AWS Lambda and Amazon ECS
Create serverless event-driven architectures on Lambda
Create loosely coupled services with Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS
CORE TOPICS WE WILL COVER IN THIS CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS COURSE
IT Fundamentals
Gain an understanding of fundamental IT concepts, including:
Client / server computing
Storage concepts: block, file, and object
IP addressing and subnetting basics
Networking: routers and switches
Server virtualization and Docker containers
Application programming interfaces (APIs)
Cloud Computing Concepts
Learn about the key cloud computing concepts:
Legacy / traditional IT vs cloud computing
The advantages of cloud computing services
Cloud computing examples
Cloud computing service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
Cloud computing deployment models (private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, multicloud)
Scaling up vs scaling out
Load balancing
High availability and Fault tolerance
Monolithic vs microservices architectures
AWS Access Control and Networking
In this section you'll learn the basics of Amazon AWS and the AWS IAM and Amazon VPC:
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Creating AWS IAM users and groups
Cloud networking - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Creating custom Amazon VPCs
Cloud computing security - security groups and network ACLs
Creating security groups and NACLs
Amazon EC2, Auto Scaling, and Load Balancing
Learn how to use Amazon AWS's IaaS platform and launch virtual servers on Amazon EC2:
Launching Amazon EC2 instances
Create a website on Amazon EC2
Using IAM Roles with EC2
Scaling with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Add high availability with Amazon Elastic Load Balancing
AWS Storage Services
Use block, file, and object storage on AWS:
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Instance Stores
Amazon EBS snapshots and AMIs
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
AWS Databases
Use managed database services in the AWS Cloud:
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Create Amazon RDS DB with a Read Replica
Amazon DynamoDB
Create a DynamoDB table
Automation and DevOps on AWS
Learn how to automate deployment and management on AWS and use the AWS Developer Tools:
Deploy infrastructure as code using AWS CloudFormation
Deploy a Platform as a Service (PaaS) application using AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
AWS CodeCommit, CodePipeline, and CodeDeploy
Create an AWS CodePipeline with AWS Elastic Beanstalk
DNS, Caching, and Performance Optimization
Use Amazon Route 53 for DNS resolution and domain registration
Use the Amazon CloudFront content delivery network (CDN)
AWS Global Accelerator
Containers and Serverless Computing
You'll learn about Docker containers and serverless computing:
Docker Containers on Amazon ECS
Serverless computing with AWS Lambda functions
Application integration services and loose coupling
Amazon EventBridge
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"Great experience, clearly presented and lots of hands on practice demos"
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MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Hi, and I'm delighted to be your instructor for this AWS Developer course. As the founder of Digital Cloud Training, I'm deeply committed to providing top-quality AWS certification training resources. I created this beginner's course to help you understand core cloud computing concepts & the basics of AWS. With over 20 years of hands-on experience in the Cloud space, I'm excited to share my expertise with you on Udemy ☁️