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AWS SOLUTION ARCHITECT - ASSOCIATE

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With huge raise in the cloud operations and Amazon being the leader in the cloud storage, Cloud computing jobs are becoming one of the highest paid worldwide. By the end of this course, you will be able to design and implement in cloud paths. Micireds helps you to understand the broad view of AWS training plan, take you deeply through the course, Labs, mock exams and in the end making you an AWS associate. Providing Step by step classroom and onlad training, the major topics we cover includes EC2, EFS, Route 53, VPC, Direct Connect, Optimization with usage of direct gateways and much more.

Introduction to Cloud Computing & AWS
    1. What is Cloud Computing 
    2. Cloud Service & Deployment Models 
    3. How AWS is the leader in the cloud domain 
    4. Various cloud computing products offered by AWS 
    5. Introduction to AWS S3, EC2, VPC, EBS, ELB, AMI 
    6. AWS architecture and the AWS Management Console
    7. Virtualization in AWS (Xen hypervisor) 
    8. What is auto-scaling 
    9. AWS EC2 best practices and cost involved. 
Elastic Compute and Storage Volumes
    1. Introduction to EC2.
    2. Regions & Availability Zones (AZs).
    3. Pre-EC2, EC2 instance types.
    4. Comparing Public IP and Elastic IP.
    5. Demonstrating how to launch an AWS EC2 instance.
    6. Introduction to AMIs, Creating and Copying an AMI.
    7. Introduction to EBS.
    8. EBS volume types.
    9. EBS Snapshots.
    10. Introduction to EFS.
    11. Instance tenancy- Reserved and Spot instances.
    12. Pricing and Design Patterns.
Load Balancing, Autoscaling and DNS
    1. Introduction to Elastic Load Balancer.
    2. Types of ELB – Classic, Network and Application.
    3. Load balancer architecture.
    4. Cross-zone load balancing.
    5. Introduction to Auto Scaling, vertical and horizontal scaling.
    6. The lifecycle of Auto Scaling.
    7. Components of Auto Scaling, scaling options and policy.
    8. Instance termination.
    9. Using load balancer with Auto Scaling.
    10. Pre-Route 53 – how DNS works.
    11. Routing policy, Route 53 terminologies, Pricing.
Virtual Private Cloud
    1. What is Amazon VPC
    2. VPC as a networking layer for EC2,
    3. IP address and CIDR notations,
    4. Components of VPC – network interfaces, route tables,
    5. Internet gateway, NAT,
    6. Security in VPC – security groups and NACL, types of VPC,
    7. What is a subnet, VPC peering with scenarios, VPC
    8. Endpoints, VPC pricing and design patterns.
Storage – Simple Storage Service (S3)
    1. Introduction to AWS storage.
    2. Pre-S3 – online cloud storage.
    3. API, S3 consistency models.
    4. Storage hierarchy, buckets in S3.
    5. Objects in S3, metadata and storage classes.
    6. Object versioning, object lifecycle management, cross-region.
    7. Replication, data encryption, connecting using VPC endpoint, S3 pricing.
Databases and In-Memory Datastore's
    1. What is a database, types of databases, databases on AWS.
    2. Introduction to Amazon RDS.
    3. Multi-AZ deployments, features of RDS.
    4. Read replicas in RDS, reserved DB instances.
    5. RDS pricing and design patterns.
    6. Introduction to Amazon Aurora, benefits of Aurora, Aurora.
    7. Pricing and design patterns.
    8. Introduction to DynamoDB, components of DynamoDB.
    9. What is Amazon Redshift, advantages of Redshift.
Management and Application Services
    1. Introduction to CloudFormation.
    2. CloudFormation components.
    3. CloudFormation templates.
    4. The concept of Infrastructure-as-a-code.
    5. Functions and pseudo parameters.
    6. Introduction to Simple Notification Service, how does SNS work.
    7. Introduction to Simple Email Service, how does SES work.
Access Management and Monitoring Services
    1. Pre-IAM, why access management.
    2. Amazon Resource Name (ARN), IAM features.
    3. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) in IAM, JSON.
    4. IAM policies, IAM permissions, IAM roles, identity federation, pricing.
    5. Introduction to CloudWatch, metrics and namespaces.
    6. CloudWatch architecture, dashboards in CW, CloudWatch alarms.
    7. CloudWatch logs, pricing and design patterns.
    8. Introduction to CloudTrail, tracking API usage.
Automation and Configuration management
    1. What is AWS Lambda.
    2. How Lambda is different from EC2.
    3. Benefits and limitations of Lambda.
    4. How does Lambda work.
    5. Use cases of Lambda, Lambda concepts.
    6. Integration S3 with Lambda.
    7. What is Elastic Beanstalk, how does Beanstalk work, Beanstalk.
    8. Concepts, Beanstalk pricing.
    9. What is configuration management.
    10. What is AWS OpsWorks, AWS OpsWorks benefits.
    11. CloudFormation vs OpsWorks, services in OpsWorks.
    12. OpsWorks Stacks, OpsWorks pricing.
AWS Migration
    1. What is Cloud Migration.
    2. Why migration is important.
    3. Migration process in AWS, the 6 R’s migration strategy.
    4. Virtual machine migration, migrating a local vm onto the AWS cloud.
    5. Migrating databases using Database Migration Service (DMS).