AWS Essential Training for Architects

Explore AWS from the architect’s perspective, focusing on the foundations you need to build scalable and reliable cloud-based application architectures.

Introduction

• Amazon Web Services essentials

1. Cloud Concepts

• Cloud services
• Cloud benefits
• Cloud elasticity
• Cloud constraints
• Cloud administration

2. Cloud Practices

• Design for failure
• Implement elasticity
• Decouple your components
• Optimize for performance
• Keep things secure
• Optimize for cost

3. Keep Things Secure

• The shared security model
• IAM: Master account
• Creating a new AWS account
• IAM: Groups, roles, and permissions
• Creating a new user
• Creating a key pair
• Security groups
• Creating a security group
• VPC

4. Designing for Failure

• Virtual servers (EC2) and Elastic IP
• Regions and Availability Zones
• The Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
• Understanding bootstrapping
• Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
• Launching a new EC2 instance
• Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
• Setting up an ELB
• Connecting to the new server via HTTP
• Connecting to the instance via SSH
• Relational Database Service (RDS)
• Create a MySQL RDS database

5. Implement Elasticity/Automate Infrastructure

• Creating a custom AMI
• Autoscaling
• Cloud monitoring (CloudWatch)
• Setting up Auto Scaling: Part 1
• Setting up Auto Scaling: Part 2
• Testing the Auto Scaling
• Elastic Beanstalk
• Use Elastic Beanstalk: Part 1
• Use Elastic Beanstalk: Part 2
• OpsWorks
• CloudFormation and CloudFormer
• CodeDeploy

6. Further Optimize for Performance

• Caching: AWS Elasticache
• Caching: AWS CloudFront
• Search: AWS CloudSearch

7. Going Serverless

• S3 and Glacier
• Use S3 for web application hosting
• Serverless architectures: API Gateway
• Serverless architectures: AWS Lambda
• Lambda and the Gateway API
• Scalable NoSQL data store (DynamoDB)
• Creating a DynamoDB table
• Deploy the API and test the application

8. Additional Services for Decoupling Components

• Simple Queue Service (SQS)
• Simple Workflow Service (SWF)
• Simple Notification Service (SNS)

9. Optimize for Cost

• Keeping tabs on the tab
• Matching supply with demand
• Utilizing cost effective resources

Conclusion

• Next steps