AWS Webinars Recorded webinars Coming soon: How to Manage Your AWS costs Presenter: Michael Forrester Recording date: June 25, 2020 Duration: 1 hour Description: In these times of ever-increasing AWS usage, wouldn’t it be nice to know how to save money on AWS? What do core services cost in AWS? How do I get discounts in AWS for EC2? Did you know that you can get discounts for RDS, RedShift, and ElasticCache? Are you familiar with VPC endpoints so you don’t pay for Internet transfer when using S3? In this one hour webinar AWS advocate and trainer, Michael Forrester, will show the common places that he “finds” money when he consults on AWS accounts especially for year 2, and year 3 users of AWS. This webinar will show how to: ● Explore the costs of core services in AWS and where to figure them out ● Identify service by service the key areas to find hidden costs in your AWS bill (core services only) ● Use the billing tools in AWS and what they are best used for in relation to billing ● Execute Best practice recommendations for enhancing billing inside your AWS account(s) ● Approach AWS’s new Financial Management class pending release in July Intended Audience: ● Cost-Optimization Leads of any type ● Any IT role responsible for AWS spend ● Solutions Architects Kubernetes made easier: Explore the AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service Presenter: Michael Forrester Recording date: April 29, 2020 Duration: 1.5 hours Description: Kubernetes is all the rage nowadays with pundits exclaiming its multi-cloud and DevOps-native attributes. But what if you are new to the Kubernetes landscape and are already using AWS? When AWS first released its Elastic Kubernetes Service in June 2018, it was an underwhelming release that didn’t add much value to a plain vanilla K8s installation. Fast forward to 2020 and the Elastic Kubernetes Service has made incredible strides in features and value-add. With the recent addition of Fargate as a launch type, EKS has transformed into a most hassle-free service that is supported by an amazing surge of adoption in 2019 per recent research. Come and explore this rich K8s service with a short demo highlighting how quickly and easily you can deploy a production-grade cluster on AWS. Related courses: WA2961 EKS Hands On Workshop for EKS Adepts From Zero to Hero: How to move from beginner to continual master of AWS Presenter: Michael Forrester Recording date: February 20, 2020 Duration: 1 hour Description: In this learning webinar about gaining expertise and experience in AWS, various paths from beginner to intermediate to expert will be discussed from a hand-on and design perspective. This webinar will offer specific guidance and a step-by-step path to follow whether you are new to Amazon Web Services or in the middle of a migration. Web Age Solutions is a registered training partner with Amazon and offers AWS official coursework as well as additions and add-ons to the AWS curriculum to cover everything from deeper service focused project labs to exam-specific walk-through of strategies for whatever exam you are taking. In this webinar you will learn: • Any prerequisite technical skills that an engineer, whether developer or DevOps, will need in order to manipulate AWS services. • A step-by-step path through foundational to associate to professional classes and their related certifications via AWS official content. • Add-ons and expansions create by Web Age Solutions that can be added to each class that drives expertise and experience to deeper levels ranging from service project labs, pre-made study guides, flash cards, immersion boot camps, and gamification. • A sample “path” with a fictional company looking to bring their architecture teams up to intermediate design level with a staged path of beginner to intermediate. • A sample specialized “path” with another company seeking to bring their Operations teams to the intermediate implementation and maintenance levels. • A free resource guide for getting started for beginners looking for some hand-on experience in basic AWS services like S3, DynamoDB, VPCs, and more. Related courses: AWS Training Unraveling the AWS Service Buffet: Where do I host my application and my data? Presenter: Michael Forrester Recording date: January 17, 2020 Duration: 2 hours Description: In this webinar infrastructure specialist Michael Forrester will walk you through the various Application Hosting and Datastore services that AWS offers. Confused by the latest offerings coming out of ReInvent? Unsure of whether to go for containers, kubernetes, or virtual machines? What are the key technical differences between DynamoDB and DocumentDB? These questions and more will be answered as Michael guides you through a simple technical and value rubric that explains which AWS services to use for your Application and Data hosting, depending on your use cases. Which AWS Certification is Right for You? Presenter: Marko Sluga Recording date: July 22, 2019 Duration: 1 hour Description: The webinar is designed to overview the AWS training certification portfolio and give the attendees a starting point to choosing their learning goal while also giving them pointers on the knowledge requirements and which training to take to achieve the goal. The presentation opens with an overview of the AWS training and certification portfolio and follows up with a comprehensive overview of the certification requirements and recommended certification paths. Additionally focus will be given to the training paths that match the certification levels followed by a discussion on content alignment and training caveats. We will also be presenting how to solve the caveats and how to use the WebAge custom workshops and the hackathon approach which can help shorten the process and ensure top results for any students attempting the AWS certification exams. The webinar will close off with an extensive question period that will allow attendees to ask questions and discuss their scenarios with our experts. Related courses: WA2832 AWS Practitioner Exam Prep Course AWS DevOps certification Presenter: Marko Sluga Recording date: April 30, 2019 Duration: 1 hour Description: The webinar is geared towards preparing the students for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional exam. The approach to the webinar is to focus on areas of knowledge that are directly related to the exam and is intended to provide the students with an overview of the knowledge requirements for passing the exam. The outline will focus on examining the following skills; • Understanding the CI/CD software development methodology • Understanding of automation in development and operations • Understanding and implementing infrastructure as code concepts • Understanding of high availability, scalability and resilience • Understanding of monitoring, logging and troubleshooting The webinar will also give an overview of sample cases and questions that students might see in the exam itself to provide the understanding of the question structure and the approach to finding the correct answer in the question details provided. The questions will cover the following domains of knowledge: • Domain 1: Continuous Delivery and Process Automation • Domain 2: High Availability and Elasticity • Domain 3: Cost Saving Practices • Domain4: Security Governance and Validation • Domain 5: Monitoring, Metrics and Logging The ideal candidate has at least 2 years of experience working with AWS in a DevOps role and is certified as an AWS Developer Associate or AWS SysOps Engineer Associate. Ideally the candidate has also attended the DevOps on AWS course. Machine Learning on AWS Presenter: Mikhail Vladimirov, Director of Curriculum Architecture Recording date: March 7, 2019 Duration: 1 hour Description: In this webinar we will discuss the machine learning capabilities of the Amazon Web Services cloud platform, including SageMaker, Lex, DeepLens, and Polly. Developing in AWS Presenter: Mikhail Vladimirov Recording date: January 24, 2019 Duration: 2.5 hour Topics: • Developing in the Cloud and AWS • Data Models and Development • Event Driven programming • Working with Streaming Data Cloud Security Fundamentals for AWS, Azure and GCP Presenter: Joe Holbrook Recording date: December 20, 2018 Duration: 3 hours Topics: • Cloud Computing Security, Risks, and Governance • Cloud Computing A Shared Responsibility • Security Controls in Cloud Computing • Common Cloud Computing Vulnerabilities • AWS Security Best Practices • Azure Security Best Practices • GCP Security Best PracticesRelated courses: AZ-101 Microsoft Azure Integration and Security Comparing AWS, Azure and GCP Presenter: Jon Gallagher Recording date: August 17, 2018 Duration: 2 1/2 hours Description: There are only two reasons to make a business decision, to generate more revenue (make money), or generate saving (save money). Fortunately as the cloud computing services marketplace becomes ever more competitive, the providers are creating more capabilities for their customers at lower costs. In this webinar we will analyze the leading cloud providers in terms of their potential to help companies respond to new opportunities in the market, to scale to meet the demands of growing businesses, and which of these saves the most money over remaining with legacy systems. AWS Simple Storage Service Presenter: Mikhail Vladimirov, Director, Curriculum Architecture, Web Age Solutions Inc. Recording date: March 17, 2017 Duration: 1 hour Description: AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) is a secure, durable, highly-scalable object storage. S3 was Amazon’s first publicly available web service launched in the United States in March 2006. This webinar will provide an overview of this very popular AWS service, including S3 Security, Transfer Acceleration, and Static Web Hosting. Related courses: WA2579 Technical Introduction to Microservices AWS – Real-Life Scenarios – Fault tolerance, AMI, Lambda Presenter: David Norwood Recording date: February, 2017 Duration: 1 hour Description: The following topics will be covered: • Building for Fault Tolerance • Automation & Setting Up AMI • Automation and Lambda • Configuring Automation & Load Testing • Cloud Formation Overview of Amazon Web Services Presenter: Mikhail Vladimirov, Director, Curriculum Architecture, Web Age Solutions Inc. Recording date: February 5, 2015 Duration: 1 hour Description: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud platform from Amazon that offers cost-effective solutions at the internet scale to its clients. This webinar will provide a short overview of some of the more popular services of the Amazon cloud and ways you can integrate those services into your off-premise solutions. AWS Webinars was last modified: April 15th, 2021 by Alex Jimenez
AWS Webinars Recorded webinars Coming soon: How to Manage Your AWS costs Presenter: Michael Forrester Recording date: June 25, 2020 Duration: 1 hour Description: In these times of ever-increasing AWS usage, wouldn’t it be nice to know how to save money on AWS? What do core services cost in AWS? How do I get discounts in AWS for EC2? Did you know that you can get discounts for RDS, RedShift, and ElasticCache? Are you familiar with VPC endpoints so you don’t pay for Internet transfer when using S3? In this one hour webinar AWS advocate and trainer, Michael Forrester, will show the common places that he “finds” money when he consults on AWS accounts especially for year 2, and year 3 users of AWS. This webinar will show how to: ● Explore the costs of core services in AWS and where to figure them out ● Identify service by service the key areas to find hidden costs in your AWS bill (core services only) ● Use the billing tools in AWS and what they are best used for in relation to billing ● Execute Best practice recommendations for enhancing billing inside your AWS account(s) ● Approach AWS’s new Financial Management class pending release in July Intended Audience: ● Cost-Optimization Leads of any type ● Any IT role responsible for AWS spend ● Solutions Architects Kubernetes made easier: Explore the AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service Presenter: Michael Forrester Recording date: April 29, 2020 Duration: 1.5 hours Description: Kubernetes is all the rage nowadays with pundits exclaiming its multi-cloud and DevOps-native attributes. But what if you are new to the Kubernetes landscape and are already using AWS? When AWS first released its Elastic Kubernetes Service in June 2018, it was an underwhelming release that didn’t add much value to a plain vanilla K8s installation. Fast forward to 2020 and the Elastic Kubernetes Service has made incredible strides in features and value-add. With the recent addition of Fargate as a launch type, EKS has transformed into a most hassle-free service that is supported by an amazing surge of adoption in 2019 per recent research. Come and explore this rich K8s service with a short demo highlighting how quickly and easily you can deploy a production-grade cluster on AWS. Related courses: WA2961 EKS Hands On Workshop for EKS Adepts From Zero to Hero: How to move from beginner to continual master of AWS Presenter: Michael Forrester Recording date: February 20, 2020 Duration: 1 hour Description: In this learning webinar about gaining expertise and experience in AWS, various paths from beginner to intermediate to expert will be discussed from a hand-on and design perspective. This webinar will offer specific guidance and a step-by-step path to follow whether you are new to Amazon Web Services or in the middle of a migration. Web Age Solutions is a registered training partner with Amazon and offers AWS official coursework as well as additions and add-ons to the AWS curriculum to cover everything from deeper service focused project labs to exam-specific walk-through of strategies for whatever exam you are taking. In this webinar you will learn: • Any prerequisite technical skills that an engineer, whether developer or DevOps, will need in order to manipulate AWS services. • A step-by-step path through foundational to associate to professional classes and their related certifications via AWS official content. • Add-ons and expansions create by Web Age Solutions that can be added to each class that drives expertise and experience to deeper levels ranging from service project labs, pre-made study guides, flash cards, immersion boot camps, and gamification. • A sample “path” with a fictional company looking to bring their architecture teams up to intermediate design level with a staged path of beginner to intermediate. • A sample specialized “path” with another company seeking to bring their Operations teams to the intermediate implementation and maintenance levels. • A free resource guide for getting started for beginners looking for some hand-on experience in basic AWS services like S3, DynamoDB, VPCs, and more. Related courses: AWS Training Unraveling the AWS Service Buffet: Where do I host my application and my data? Presenter: Michael Forrester Recording date: January 17, 2020 Duration: 2 hours Description: In this webinar infrastructure specialist Michael Forrester will walk you through the various Application Hosting and Datastore services that AWS offers. Confused by the latest offerings coming out of ReInvent? Unsure of whether to go for containers, kubernetes, or virtual machines? What are the key technical differences between DynamoDB and DocumentDB? These questions and more will be answered as Michael guides you through a simple technical and value rubric that explains which AWS services to use for your Application and Data hosting, depending on your use cases. Which AWS Certification is Right for You? Presenter: Marko Sluga Recording date: July 22, 2019 Duration: 1 hour Description: The webinar is designed to overview the AWS training certification portfolio and give the attendees a starting point to choosing their learning goal while also giving them pointers on the knowledge requirements and which training to take to achieve the goal. The presentation opens with an overview of the AWS training and certification portfolio and follows up with a comprehensive overview of the certification requirements and recommended certification paths. Additionally focus will be given to the training paths that match the certification levels followed by a discussion on content alignment and training caveats. We will also be presenting how to solve the caveats and how to use the WebAge custom workshops and the hackathon approach which can help shorten the process and ensure top results for any students attempting the AWS certification exams. The webinar will close off with an extensive question period that will allow attendees to ask questions and discuss their scenarios with our experts. Related courses: WA2832 AWS Practitioner Exam Prep Course AWS DevOps certification Presenter: Marko Sluga Recording date: April 30, 2019 Duration: 1 hour Description: The webinar is geared towards preparing the students for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional exam. The approach to the webinar is to focus on areas of knowledge that are directly related to the exam and is intended to provide the students with an overview of the knowledge requirements for passing the exam. The outline will focus on examining the following skills; • Understanding the CI/CD software development methodology • Understanding of automation in development and operations • Understanding and implementing infrastructure as code concepts • Understanding of high availability, scalability and resilience • Understanding of monitoring, logging and troubleshooting The webinar will also give an overview of sample cases and questions that students might see in the exam itself to provide the understanding of the question structure and the approach to finding the correct answer in the question details provided. The questions will cover the following domains of knowledge: • Domain 1: Continuous Delivery and Process Automation • Domain 2: High Availability and Elasticity • Domain 3: Cost Saving Practices • Domain4: Security Governance and Validation • Domain 5: Monitoring, Metrics and Logging The ideal candidate has at least 2 years of experience working with AWS in a DevOps role and is certified as an AWS Developer Associate or AWS SysOps Engineer Associate. Ideally the candidate has also attended the DevOps on AWS course. Machine Learning on AWS Presenter: Mikhail Vladimirov, Director of Curriculum Architecture Recording date: March 7, 2019 Duration: 1 hour Description: In this webinar we will discuss the machine learning capabilities of the Amazon Web Services cloud platform, including SageMaker, Lex, DeepLens, and Polly. Developing in AWS Presenter: Mikhail Vladimirov Recording date: January 24, 2019 Duration: 2.5 hour Topics: • Developing in the Cloud and AWS • Data Models and Development • Event Driven programming • Working with Streaming Data Cloud Security Fundamentals for AWS, Azure and GCP Presenter: Joe Holbrook Recording date: December 20, 2018 Duration: 3 hours Topics: • Cloud Computing Security, Risks, and Governance • Cloud Computing A Shared Responsibility • Security Controls in Cloud Computing • Common Cloud Computing Vulnerabilities • AWS Security Best Practices • Azure Security Best Practices • GCP Security Best PracticesRelated courses: AZ-101 Microsoft Azure Integration and Security Comparing AWS, Azure and GCP Presenter: Jon Gallagher Recording date: August 17, 2018 Duration: 2 1/2 hours Description: There are only two reasons to make a business decision, to generate more revenue (make money), or generate saving (save money). Fortunately as the cloud computing services marketplace becomes ever more competitive, the providers are creating more capabilities for their customers at lower costs. In this webinar we will analyze the leading cloud providers in terms of their potential to help companies respond to new opportunities in the market, to scale to meet the demands of growing businesses, and which of these saves the most money over remaining with legacy systems. AWS Simple Storage Service Presenter: Mikhail Vladimirov, Director, Curriculum Architecture, Web Age Solutions Inc. Recording date: March 17, 2017 Duration: 1 hour Description: AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) is a secure, durable, highly-scalable object storage. S3 was Amazon’s first publicly available web service launched in the United States in March 2006. This webinar will provide an overview of this very popular AWS service, including S3 Security, Transfer Acceleration, and Static Web Hosting. Related courses: WA2579 Technical Introduction to Microservices AWS – Real-Life Scenarios – Fault tolerance, AMI, Lambda Presenter: David Norwood Recording date: February, 2017 Duration: 1 hour Description: The following topics will be covered: • Building for Fault Tolerance • Automation & Setting Up AMI • Automation and Lambda • Configuring Automation & Load Testing • Cloud Formation Overview of Amazon Web Services Presenter: Mikhail Vladimirov, Director, Curriculum Architecture, Web Age Solutions Inc. Recording date: February 5, 2015 Duration: 1 hour Description: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud platform from Amazon that offers cost-effective solutions at the internet scale to its clients. This webinar will provide a short overview of some of the more popular services of the Amazon cloud and ways you can integrate those services into your off-premise solutions. AWS Webinars was last modified: April 15th, 2021 by Alex Jimenez
