Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2: An Introduction

Gain Basic Understanding on AWS Virtual Cloud Servers

What you'll learn:

• After taking this course, a learner will be able to deploy virtual servers on AWS cloud platform.

Overall Course Objective:

Gain a fair introductory level understanding on AWS EC2.

Pre-requisite: A learner needs to have good understanding on Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Computer Networks and IP Addressing. It is also assumed that a learner has an idea on what is Amazon Web Services (AWS), as this course does NOT provide an overview or introduction to AWS. It is also assumed that a learner knows how to create an AWS account and have an active AWS account. A computer with an Internet connection is required.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand what is AWS EC2.

2. Learn how to deploy virtual network and virtual server on a cloud platform.

3. Learn how to monitor performance of virtual servers.

4. Learn how to install web-server on virtual cloud server.

5. Learn how to allocate IP addresses to virtual cloud servers.

Course Outline:

- Introduction to AWS EC2.

- Creating key-pair.

- Launch a virtual server.

- Monitor virtual servers.

- Deploying virtual servers in different geographic location.

- Install webserver on virtual server.

- Allocate IP addresses to virtual servers.

- Demonstration on how to launch a WordPress website quickly with few clicks.

What a Student will learn?

This is a basic course to understand the concepts AWS EC2 in general. This course aims to equip a learner with skills on EC2 to such an extent, so that a learner can master on EC2 through Self-Directed Learning once they successfully complete this course. This course shows how to build virtual cloud infrastructure on AWS. This is a basic and beginner level course on EC2.