Course Description: This course will provide an understanding of cloud computing concepts and, specifically, how Amazon Web Services can meet business needs.
Course Title 41: Deployment and Delivery on AWS
Course Description: Continuous delivery is a practice in which code changes are automatically built, tested, and prepared for deployment. In this course, you will learn the basics of Docker, and how to use Amazon Elastic Beanstalk.
Course Title 40: Source Control on AWS
Course Description: Source control is the management of changes to an organization's code base and is very important for growing companies. In this course, you will learn to use the AWS product, CodeCommit.
Course Title 39: Technology Support Resources
Course Description: Cloud practitioners at the end of their preparation for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 2020 exam, should have most of the knowledge they need under their belts. However, you may be lacking some awareness of the vital technology support services available through AWS. In this final course of the journey to AWS Cloud Practitioner, you'll tie off your existing knowledge with an exploration of the variety of these services, examining how they improve the cloud experience and contribute to optimization, governance...
Course Title 38: Core Services
Course Description: To be a successful AWS Cloud Practitioner, one must first have a fundamental understanding of the features and purposes of the four core services of Amazon Web Services. Learners taking this course should already have a decent knowledge of the AWS compute and networking services. This course builds on this awareness by exploring the critical storage and database services offered in AWS. You'll study in some detail the components, features, benefits, and purposes of these services. In addition, you'll investigate the security
Course Title 37: Cloud Deployment & Operation
Course Description: Deploying to the cloud and managing cloud operations are core duties of the AWS Cloud Practitioner role. To do this, you first need to know the AWS tools for the job and how to set them up. In this course, you'll explore the fundamental set-up procedures for cloud deployment and operations through AWS. You'll start by learning the basics of deploying Linux and Windows instances. You'll then illustrate the purposes of and configuration techniques for the following Amazon services: Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing...
Course Title 36: Security Support Resources
Course Description: To truly demonstrate that you are an AWS practitioner, you must be familiar with the core security support services that Amazon offers. As you design your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), you'll begin with subnet design and firewall configuration. This course will give you exposure to Network Access Control Lists (NACLs), Security Groups, and Web Application Firewalls (WAF) as TCP/IP layer 3 - 7 firewall solutions. You will further examine anti-denial-of-service mechanisms with AWS Shield Standard and Advanced. Other vital security...
Course Title 35: Access Management
Course Description: "To achieve certification as an AWS Cloud Practitioner, you need to be able to secure access to AWS services and resources. In this course, you'll explore what comprises the vital AWS security pillar of access management, focusing on Identity and Access Management (IAM). To start, you'll explore the use of IAM password and managed policies, roles, and groups and users. Next, because it is best practice to use only mediated access to services, you'll examine the use of bastion hosts and AppStream 2.0. You'll also investigate how to...
Course Title 34: Cloud Security & Compliance
Course Description: There are many advantages to working with the robust and multifaceted AWS, one of which is ensuring security and compliance - an often tricky task, but one that AWS cloud practitioners must complete faultlessly. In this course, you'll pinpoint the benefits of AWS cloud security and the vital role that AWS plays in organizational certification and attestation. You'll investigate the specific services that help meet the criteria set by the ever-evolving laws, regulations, and privacy standards. Additionally, you'll explore...
Course Title 33: Cloud Architecture Design Principles
Course Description: There are several architectural design principles that you must become familiar with to achieve certification as an AWS Cloud Practitioner. In this course, you'll explore the core aspects of AWS architectural design principles and work with some associated tools. You'll begin by recognizing what's meant by virtualization in AWS and how a hypervisor is used. You'll then investigate the AWS Shared Responsibility Model's principles, examining the responsibilities of both the AWS provider and the customer. You'll then explore best...
Course Title 32: Cloud Economics
Course Description: To make the most of AWS cloud products, services, and models, users can take advantage of various propriety tools to manage their costs. In this course, you'll examine the fundamentals of AWS cloud economics. You'll classify AWS and other cloud providers and investigate the various pricing models on offer from AWS. Next, you'll learn how to use some AWS pricing tools, namely the TCO calculator and monthly cost calendar. This course is a collection of courses that prepare learners for the AWS Certified Cloud...
Course Title 31: Cloud and the Value Proposition
Course Description: To prepare for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam, you need to outline the basic concepts of cloud computing and recognize what exactly comprises Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this course, you'll explore the core concepts that define the AWS Cloud and cloud computing. You'll examine cloud computing offerings and models and investigate the benefits and features of Amazon Web Services. In addition, you'll outline AWS's value proposition, including aspects of agility, elasticity, cost, flexibility, and security. This course is one...
Course Title 30: Development Strategies
Course Description: In this course you will explore software development strategies such as continuous integration and delivery, app decoupling, and the use of microservices in teh cloud. Examine the benefits derived from using Simple Notification Service (SNS) topics and Simple Queue Service (SQS) queues. This course can be used in preparation for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Solutions Architect-Professional SAP-CO1 certification exam. Begin by looking at the five pillars of a well-architected framework and consider the benefits of...
Course Title 29: Desktop & Cost Management
Course Description: In this course, explore cost management tools such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) Budgets and cost explorer, as well as reserved and spot instances. Discover how to centrally manage desktops and apps using WorkSpaces and AppStream. This course can be used in preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional SAP-C01 certification exam. Firstly, explore AWS charges using the cost explorer tool, then use the AWS command-line interface (CLI) and Microsoft Powershell to retrieve AWS charges. Learn to create...
Course Title 28: Account & Centralized Management
Course Description: In this course, discover how to centrally manage and inventory Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources and how to manage multiple AWS accounts. This course can be used in preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional SAP-C01 certification exam. To begin, learn how AWS Organizations provide central AWS account management, and view AWS accounts added to an AWS Organization. Use the graphical user interface (GUI) to manage AWS Organizations. Then take a look at service control policies (SCPs)...
Course Title 27: High Availability
Course Description: This course explores the easy availability of AWS (Amazon Web Services) and what services are designed and provided for system and data resiliency. This course demonstrates how to configure Amazon S3 Glacier for cloud storage classes, data archiving, and long-term backup. You will learn the differences between application, network, and classic load balancers. You will learn to deploy a target group and a network load balancer, demonstrate how to configure an EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) Instance placement group, modify the...
Course Title 26: Network Security & Disaster Recovery
Course Description: This course explores how to protect AWS (Amazon Web Services) resources by using the AWS network security features such as network ACLs (access control lists), an optional layer of security for your VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) that acts as a firewall for controlling traffic in and out. You will learn about using security groups and various types of disaster recovery planning. This course demonstrates how to plan a network ACL, and you will learn a security group strategy. Learners will be shown how to configure...
Course Title 25: AWS & Data Protection
Course Description: This course explores how AWS (Amazon Web Services) provides data protection, including data discovery and classification, firewall solutions, and security hub services that meet industry security standards and regulations for data privacy. You will learn about and the importance of regulatory compliance for your company's IT security program and the importance of data classification for data privacy. Examine PII (personally identifiable information) and PHI (protected health information). You will learn the data security...
Course Title 24: Cryptography & PKI
Course Description: This course will examine how cryptography and PKI (public key infrastructure) provide data confidentiality and security in the cloud to ensure that only authorized parties can view sensitive information and be confident of its source. PKI is a hierarchy of digital security certificates that are issued and managed by CAs (certificate authorities). You will learn how to use both PKIs and private CAs and how Amazon's KMS (Key Management Service) facilitates the use of keys. You will learn how to create a KMS key and how to enable...
Course Title 23: IAM Configurations
Course Description: This course explores AWS (Amazon Web Services) IAM (Identity and Access Management) configurations by examining how to control access to AWS cloud resources using IAM roles and policies. You will learn how to use MFA (multifactor authentication), the Directory Services tool, and Amazon Cognito to control user authentication. Learners see how IAM policies differ from service control policies, and learn how to configure IAM policies and IAM roles. You will learn how to use the IAM policy simulator to test resource access, how MFA...
Course Title 22: IAM Users & Groups
Course Description: This course explores the creation and management of AWS (Amazon Web Services) IAM (Identity and Access Management) users and groups. You will learn how to migrate complex cloud applications, design and deploy enterprise-wide scalable operations, and implement cost strategies by using AWS. The course explores enterprise-specific security requirements for user sign-ins, passwords, and how passwords are created and managed. You will learn how to configure the IAM to a specific company policy. You...
Course Title 21: Data Processing & Analysis
Course Description: This course explores numerous AWS (Amazon Web Services) data processing analysis solutions and the tools available for ingesting and analyzing large data sets. You will learn to use AWS services to design and deploy applications to meet your customer's requirements, to migrate complex applications, to design and deploy enterprise-wide scalable operations, and to implement cost control strategies. This course covers Elastic Transcoder and how to create an elastic transcoder job pipeline. Learners examine how Amazon...
Course Title 20: Database Solutions
Course Description: This course explores AWS (Amazon Web Services) database solutions and configurations, including whether to use SQL (Structured Query Language) or NoSQL (not only Structured Query Language) databases. You will learn to configure and deploy Amazon Aurora, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle in AWS. This course examines the difference between SQL and NoSQL databases and explains which Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) engine is most applicable for a client's needs...
Course Title 19: EC2 Instance Deployment
Course Description: This course explores how to migrate complex applications on AWS (Amazon Web Services). You will learn to design and deploy enterprise-wide scalable cloud operations on AWS, and to implement cost control strategies. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) provides a wide selection of instance types optimized to fit different use cases. You will discover how to deploy EC2 instances using GUI (graphical user interface) and command-line tools. You will examine instance types that meet workload requirements and how to launch...
Course Title 18: Name Resolution Solutions
Course Description: This course examines all the services offered by Route 53, Amazon's scalable cloud DNS (Domain Name System) web service. The overall purpose of this service is to reduce the amount of time it takes for a client to connect to a resource. You learn will how to create a hosted zone and record set with simple routing policies, and then learn which specific Route 53 policy is best for your application. This course covers the use of AWS services to design and deploy applications to meet given requirements; migrate complex applications on AWS...
Course Title 17: VPC Management & Peering
Course Description: This course explores VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) Management and Peering, one of the most important services available in AWS (Amazon Web Services). You will learn how to create and configure VPCs and to align them with business needs. First, you will cover how VPCs address cloud networking needs for your clients. You will then examine VPCs' address cloud networking needs and how to use AWS tools GUI, CLI, and PowerShell to create a VPC. Next, learn how to configure a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) and DNS...
Course Title 16: S3 Management
Course Description: This course explores the public cloud storage provided by AWS (Amazon Web Services), called S3 buckets, to store data and its descriptive metadata. Begin by learning how to use S3 buckets, an access control list (ACL), to determine which entities have access to contents within the S3 bucket. Learners can then explore S3 security options, including bucket encryption, access policies, and object locking and how to enable versioning static website hosting. This course also covers the benefits of both Microsoft's EFS (Encrypting...
Course Title 15: AWS Management
Course Description: This course examines GUI (graphical user interface) and command-line tools to manage Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources. You will explore resource tagging, resource deployments using templates, and CLI (command-line interface) and PowerShell to manage resources. This course demonstrates how to install the CLI on Windows and Linux platforms. You will learn to use AWS management tools and management console. Learners will review third-party management tools that work with AWS, such as Cloudaware, a cost measurement...
Course Title 14: Stack Deployment and Caching
Course Description: Preparation for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Solutions Architect-Associate (SAA-C02) certification exam continues with this 9-video course on analyzing large amounts of data, automating resource deployment, and database caching. Participants will begin with an overview of the Amazon Kinesis service for adjusting and analyzing streaming data, and learn how clusters in Redshift—a large-scale data warehouse solution known for its high performance—can store and analyze large amounts of data. Next, you will learn how...
Course Title 13: AWS Developer Options
Course Description: Continue preparing for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Solutions Architect-Associate (SAA-C02) certification exam with this 11-video course, which explores AWS developer services available for software development: AWS Lambda, an elastic container service (ECS), and the API Gateway—basically, a kind of middleman between client requests to APIs and APIs behind the gateway. The course opens by examining how API Gateway allows cloud-hosted code solutions and how AWS Lambda provides serverless code...
Course Title 12: AWS Cost Management
Course Description: This 11-video course continues preparations for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Solutions Architect-Associate (SAA-C02) certification exam. Here, learners can explore AWS cost management techniques for the cloud and tools for viewing and reducing AWS costs to meet current business objectives. The course opens with an examination of how to use the graphical user interface, the command-line interface, and PowerShell to view AWS charges. Watch helpful demonstrations of how to configure AWS budgets and enable...
Course Title 11: Security
Course Description: Preparation for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Solutions Architect-Associate (SAA-C02) certification exam continues with this 13-video course, in which participants explore AWS security and how to secure AWS cloud deployments by using certificates, encryption, and web application firewalls (WAFs). Begin by examining the AWS Security Hub for viewing cloud security alerts and compliance status, and learn how security is provided by both cryptography and public key infrastructure (PKI). Then watch a demonstration of enabling...
Course Title 10: Application Scalability
Course Description: This 8-video course continues preparations for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Solutions Architect-Associate (SAA-C02) certification exam. In this course, participants discover how to improve application and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance performance through the use of Auto Scaling, Load Balancing, and placement groups. The course opens with an examination of how Auto Scaling can adjust EC2 instances, on the basis of workloads, and how to configure an Auto Scaling group, which depends upon...
Course Title 9: Network Security & Name Resolution
Course Description: Explore Amazon Web Services (AWS) name resolution through Route 53, including domain registration, hosted zones, and routing policies. In this course, you will examine how network cloud security solutions such as network Access Control Lists (ACLs) and security groups should be used. Discover how Network Address Translation (NAT) and Internet gateways provide network connectivity. In this course, learn how to use the domain name system (DNS) service Route 53 to register a domain name, transfer an existing DNS that is already...
Course Title 8: Network Options
Course Description: Discover how Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) provide Amazon Web Services (AWS) virtual network configurations, including subnets as well as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and Domain Name System (DNS) options. Learn about linking an on-premises network to the AWS cloud. Course participants will learn how VPCs address cloud networking needs as subnets which can deploy resources, and how to create a VPC using graphical user interface, command-line interface, and PowerShell, a task-based command-line...
Course Title 7: Storage Security & Resiliency
Course Description: Discover how Amazon Web Services (AWS) Backup provides a centralized backup solution and Simple Storage Service (S3) security mechanisms such as encryption and blocking public access. In this course, learners explore how S3 cross-region replication increases fault tolerance, while CloudFront caches website content near users that request it. Course participants will also learn how to configure and use AWS Backup, as well as restore backups in the cloud; how to control access with S3 Block Public Access, which helps manage...
Course Title 6: Storage Solutions
Course Description: Explore Amazon Web Services (AWS) storage solutions such as Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets, including various methods of creating them. In this course, you will discover how Elastic File System (EFS) provides cloud-based Network File System (NFS) shared that can be mounted as a remote file system and how Glacier is used for long-term cloud archiving. Course participants will also learn: how S3 addresses cloud storage needs in what are called buckets and how to create multiple buckets in your AWS account...
Course Title 5: AWS: Virtual Machines and Identity and Access Management
Course Description: This course covers EC2 virtual machine deployment, configuration, and management. It also covers the role of identity and access management.
Course Title 4: AWS: Networking
Course Description: This course covers fundamental networking components such as VPCs and subnets. Other networking topics such as Route 53 DNS domains, CloudFront content delivery, and dedicated links to AWS through Direct Connect are also covered.
Course Title 3: AWS: Storage
Course Description: All AWS services are affected by storage in one way or another. This course covers storage for EC2 virtual machines, general S3 storage, as well as longer-term storage through Glacier.
Course Title 2: AWS: Management Tools
Course Description: Technicians responsible for managing AWS resources have many tools at their disposal. One-off configurations are often executed using the AWS management console but automation is possible using PowerShell and the AWS command line interface.
