Outline of AWS SysOps Administrator Associate Certification BootCamp Training

Chapter 1. Fundamentals of Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Regions
• Availability Zones and Data centers
• AWS Credentials
• Review of All AWS Services

Chapter 2. Amazon S3

• Fundamental APIs: PUT, GET, LIST, DELETE
• Consistency model
  • Types of consistency model for distributed storage
  • S3’s consistency model
  • Understanding eventual consistency
• S3 Namespace
• Access Control List
• Bucket Policy
• Pre-signed URL
• Multipart upload
• Understanding Pricing for S3
• Hands-on: S3 Lab; Creating Buckets, objects, and managing access control
• Data encryption with S3
• Multipart upload
• Understanding Pricing for S3
• Data encryption with S3
• AWS Import/Export Service
• Server side logging
• Versioning of data in S3
• Architecture case study of common Use Cases of S3

Chapter 3. Amazon EC2

• EC2 Architecture
• EC2 Instance types
  • Hardware differences
  • On-Demand Instances
  • Reserved Instances
  • Spot Instances
• Data Persistence Models
• Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
• Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
  • S3 AMI
  • EBS AMI
• EC2 Security Model
  • Security Credentials
  • Sign in Credentials
  • Key pairs
  • X.509 certificate
  • Access keys
• EC2 Security Groups
• Instance addressing
• Generating Custom AMIs
• Working with EC2 Console
• Monitoring Instances with Amazon CloudWatch
• Amazon Elastic IP
• Hands-on: Hosting an Application on EC2

Chapter 4. Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS)

• Core advantages of EBS
• Starting an EBS database instance
• Starting read-replica of database
• High fault tolerant multi AZ deployment
• Hands-on: Deploying and scaling and application using RDS

Chapter 5. Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)

• Fundamentals of a Load Balancer
• Starting a load balancer instance
• Sticky sessions
• SSL termination on ELB
• Hands-on: Scaling the Application using Amazon ELB

Chapter 6. Amazon CloudWatch

• Architecture of CloudWatch
• APIs and Use Cases
• Canned metrics
• Custom metrics

Chapter 7. Auto-Scaling

• Understanding auto-scaling
• Auto-scaling Fundamentals
• Setting up auto-scaling rules
• Hands-on: Deploying an auto-scaling app on the cloud using auto-scaling, EC2, RDS, ELB

Chapter 8. Amazon VPC

• Deep Dive into AWS networking infrastructure
• VPC Networking Fundamentals
• Private and Public Subnets
  • Allocation of IP Addresses
  • CIDR Notation
• Elastic Network Interface (ENI)
• Routing inside VPC
  • Network Address Translation (NAT)
  • Internet Gateways
  • Configuring Routes
• VPN tunnels to VPC
• Hands-on: Hosting secure applications using public and private subnets

Chapter 9. Identity & Access Management (IAM)

• Understanding IAM
• Groups and Users
• Application “Roles” in IAM
• Access Policies
• Federated Authentication on IAM
• Hands-on: Generating groups, users, access policies and control

Chapter 10. CloudFront

• CDN Fundamentals
• Using CloudFront for Public Data
• Using CloudFront for Access Controlled Data
• Hands-on: Setup CloudFront CDN for an Application

Chapter 11. Route 53

• Deep Dive on DNS Architecture
• Using Route53 for your Domain Name
• Creating Name Server Entries
• Setting up Health Checks
• Configuring for Multi-Location application
  • Master – Slave Configuration
  • Master – Master Configuration
  • Weighted Round Robin
  • Geo-location Aware Routing
• Hands-on: Moving an existing domain name to Route53 and configuring multi- location Routing

Chapter 12. Cloud Formation

• Infrastructure as Code
• Understanding the Cloud Formation template sub-sections
• Generating template for our Infrastructure
• Deploying using Cloud Formation
• Hands-on: Generating and Deploying Cloud Formation Templates

Chapter 13. AWS Frequently Used Design Patterns

• Architecting on AWS
• For Batch Processing
• For Online Applications
• For Disaster Recovery
• Data Security