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Build Solid Foundation of Main AWS Concepts and Services Start Learning

AWS Intro Course

Description

Have you heard about big companies using cloud computing to a great success? For example Netflix, Capital One and Airbnb are some of the biggest AWS customers and it allows these companies to deliver faster and at scale. If you are a tech person (software engineer) but totally new to AWS — the biggest and most advanced cloud provider — this course is for you.

This is Amazon Web Services Introduction course which teaches developers the main concepts of AWS. The course gives overview of the main services (EC2, S3, ELB, EIP, and CloudWatch): how to launch compute instances, create images, connect and debug, automate environment creation, and work with storage among many other things. The course is hands-on with five labs. An AWS account is required or limited access login will be provided for the duration of the class.

Pre-requisites: AWS account (free tier is fine); laptop with POSIX, terminal and editor or PuTTY if you're on Windows.

Topics covered

• Cloud and AWS Basics: AMI, types, configuration
• Launching EC2s
• Environment and App Deploy Automation
• Networking: Virtual Private Cloud, Subnets, Elastic IP and Load Balancer
• S3
• Auto Scaling and CloudWatch Alerts

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Labs covered

1. WP is King (Launching new instances from AMI)
2. Hello world Baby (User Data)
3. ELB for Saving! (Application Elastic Load Balancer)
4. Static Websites Rule! (S3)
5. Pager Duty (Autoscaling)

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What's inside

• Labs: labs
• Slides: 01-overview.md, 02-modules.md, 03-outro.md
• Code: code

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