Amazon Web Services (AWS) Training

Course Duration

1 day

Audience

Employees of federal, state and local governments; and businesses working with the government.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Course Description

This course provides a broad overview of Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure and core services. Students gain foundational knowledge of AWS compute, storage, networking, databases, security, and pricing . giving them the context needed to evaluate and begin working with AWS in their organization.

Learning Objectives

• Recognize terminology and concepts as they relate to the AWS platform
• Navigate the AWS Management Console
• Understand the security measures AWS provides
• Differentiate AWS Storage options and create an Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket
• Recognize AWS Compute and Networking options and use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
• Describe Managed Services and Database options
• Use Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) to launch an application
• Identify Deployment and Management options

Course Outline

Course Topics

• Navigate the AWS Management Console
• Recognize AWS Global Infrastructure
• Describe the security measures AWS provides
• Identify key AWS storage options
• Describe Amazon EBS
• Create an Amazon S3 bucket and manage associated objects
• Identify the different AWS compute and networking options
• Describe an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
• Create an Amazon EC2 instance
• Use Amazon EBS with Amazon EC2
• Describe Amazon DynamoDB
• Understand key aspects of Amazon RDS
• Launch an Amazon RDS instance
• Identify what is CloudFormation
• Describe Amazon CloudWatch metrics and alarms
• Describe Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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