— Fund of AWS Cloud Services

Catalog description

This course will introduce the students to the resources and services that constitute the AWS Cloud. Beginning with the building block of Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) which is the configuration and provisioning of virtual servers in the Amazon Cloud. Next the concept of Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes will be shown to the students. The students will then be introduced to the Simple Storage Service (S3) and the Amazon Global Infrastructure, consisting of AWS Regions, AWS Availability Zones, and AWS Edge Locations and their functions. The students will be shown the configuration of the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPS) which allows for total customization of the network configuration within the AWS Cloud. This will be followed by AWS Security Groups, which are essentially firewalls within the AWS Cloud. Other concepts that will be introduced to the students are AWS Application Load Balancer, which creates advanced routing rules to EC2 services. The course will continue with an introduction to AWS Route 53, an advanced DNS service for applications within the AWS Cloud, AWS Lambda, which allows the execution of code in a serverless environment, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), which greatly simplifies the administration of Relational Database Management Systems. Other topics that will be part of this course are AWS Auto Scaling, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon Cloud Watch, an advanced monitoring service for resource usage, Amazon Cloud Front, which is used at Amazon Edge Locations, and AWS Cloud Formation which automates Resource Provisioning. Students will be introduced to the three ways to access AWS services (AWS Console, CLI, and APIs).