AWS - Introduction and Deep Dive

As the cloud computing industry continues to grow, understanding its concepts, purpose, and use cases will become an increasingly valuable skill among non-IT individuals. This will help marketing, sales, and finance professionals to better interact with developers and other IT professionals engaged in Amazon web services projects. This course provides an overview of some of Amazon web services cloud services and basic knowledge of what the services are for the specified objectives. This will go over some of Amazon web services more established services and the ancillary services that allow businesses to incorporate or completely migrate over to Amazon web services. Amazon web services provide a number of tools to perform basic tasks up to full automation. We will then discuss the management of AWS cloud services and provide basic knowledge of services provided by the AWS cloud. We will talk about the services that are very common for businesses to use and ideologies about the management of them.

During the progression of this course, we will be talking about these products and services to ensure you have a knowledge of what they do and a relatable way that you can use them.

Some of the services you will be looking at is the Amazon web services Fundamentals of Networking and content delivery, Identity and Access Management, Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Route 53, Relational Database Service (RDS), AWS Simple Storage Service (S3), Storage, Analytics, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES). As well as topics including VPC configuration and examples on how they may be provisioned to allow for redundancy. Route 53, the DNS service that AWS provides and some of the approaches to a hybrid model. EC2 instance types and examples of uses for them, from instances that could be used as a webserver to database servers. We will cover elastic load balancing and the different types along with some use cases for each one. In managing the OS on EC2 we will discuss maintenance plans and scheduled tasks, the documents that can be run and the differences in them and why there are use cases for them.

This is not designed to teach you how to build and run applications on Amazon web services. This course is all about the conceptual understanding of the services that Amazon web services can offer to allow you to migrate and manage your cloud in a new way.

Learning Objectives:

• Define what the AWS Cloud is and the basic global infrastructure
• Describe the key services on the AWS platform and their common use cases
• Describe basic AWS Cloud architectural principles
• Describe the AWS Cloud value proposition
• Describe basic/core characteristics of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud
• VPC's and how they play a vital role in the cloud
• Describe the key services on the AWS platform and their common use cases
• An in-depth view of AWS Cloud architectural principles
• Discuss the ongoing evolution of resources in the cloud
• Describe basic/core characteristics of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud

Intended Audience: This provides an overview of some of AWS cloud services and basic knowledge of what the services are for the specified objectives. This is intended for Sales, Marketing, Project Managers, and new business professionals learning AWS, as well as IT Professionals who have a working knowledge with AWS. This is designed to teach you some basic concepts of cloud computing.