Singapore - AWS Cloud – Solution Architect Associate Workshop Training in SIngapore

The course is designed based on official certification requirements outlined by AWS Cloud provider for AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

• Understand the core concepts of AWS Cloud
• Architect AWS cloud from cost, performance, and cost optimization perspective
• Rich hands-on labs to understand concepts better
• Understand and create VPC   
• Ability to deploy and operate EC2 , EBS and ELB  service
• Ability to create IAM users, groups, policies and roles
• Deploy webapp and connect to RDS

•  21 hours - 3 days

Day 1

Module 1: User Sign up?

• User Sign Up
• Overview Amazon Management Console
• Management Activity and Billing overview
• Amazon Pricing

Module 2: AWS Big Picture – 10000 feet overview?

• An overview of AWS
• EC2- An overview
• EBS- An Overview
• Security Group-An Overview
• Elastic IP- An overview
• Cloud Front-An Overview
• S3- An overview
• Glacier- An overview
• IAM – An Overview
• RDS- AN overview

Module 3: Amazon EC2- Win server 2012     ( Hands on lab by students)

• Launch Windows server 2012 Instance
• Decrypt Password and download RDP shortcut client
• connect to the EC2 Windows 2012 instance
• Terminate the Windows server 2012 Instance

Module 4: Amazon EC2- Security Groups  ( Hands on lab by students)

• Creating Security Groups
• Modify Security Groups
• Delete Security Groups

Module 5 : Amazon Elastic Block Store  ( Hands on lab by students)

• Create Standard Volume
• Create and delete snapshots
• Create Provisioned I/o Volume
• Assign volumes to Windows server 2012 and Ubuntu 14.04 server
• Disassociate and Delete volumes

Module 6 : Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)   ( Hands on lab by students)

• Lab 6.1
1. Launch Two Ubuntu EC2 Instances- apache web servers with user data
2. Edit HTML files to both the servers
3. Test your web Servers through internet
• Lab 6.2
1. Create Elastic Load Balancer
2. Add both the Ubuntu servers to ELB
3. Test your Elastic Load Balancer
4. Delete your Elastic Load Balancer

Module 7 : AWS Route53

•  What is Route53
•  Route-53 demo integration with ELB you created ( Performed by Instructor only)

Module 8 : AWS s3  ( Hands on lab by students)

•   AWS s3- Overview and pricing
•   Create Bucket  and Folder
•   Upload, download, share and delete object
•    Delete Bucket

Day 2

Module 1 : Amazon EC2 and EBS System operations ( Hands on lab by students)       

• EC2 and EBS - Advanced theory  
• EC2 – Creating your own AMI
• EC2 – Launching instance using own AMI
• EC2 – copy  snapshot across region and share across accounts ( live demo by instructor)
• EBS – Snapshot
• EBS- creating volume using snapshot
• EBS – copy EBS snapshot across region and share across accounts ( live demo by instructor)
• EBS - upgrade volume types

Module 2 : Auto Scaling and Bootstrapping   ( Hands on lab by students)                      

• Overview Of   Autoscaling
•  ELB: Configuring The Elastic Load Balancer  for Autoscaling group
• Configuring The AMI For Our Web Application
• Auto Scaling And Bootstrapping
• Scale out  VM’s though stress test
• Scaling VM ‘s based on low utilization

Module 3 : AWS s3  ( Hands on lab by students)                                                        

• AWS s3- Overview and pricing
• Create Bucket  and Folder
• Upload, download, share and delete object
• File Versioning
• Cross Region Replication
• Setting s3 life cycle policy
• Create static Website in s3
• S3 Transfer Acceleration ( Theory only)
• S3 security and encryption ( Theory only)
• Delete Bucket

Module 4 : AWS- IAM (Identity and Access Management)                                                   

• What is IAM? – A comprehensive introduction
• Getting started with IAMs
• IAM   user- groups ( Hands on lab by students)
1. Creating a user and group
2. Adding a user to the group
3. Password policy setup for users
4. Attaching policy to users
5. Enabling dual /Multi  factor authentication to the users

• IAM roles    ( Hands on lab by students)                                                              
1. Creating a IAM role and assign s3 full access policy
2. Launching a EC2 instance using a S3 full access role 
3. AWS CLI install and create s3 bucket using cli, upload file and delete bucket from s3
4. Deleting a role

• Creating a Billing Alarm    ( Live demo by Instructor)

Module 5 : AWS Cloudfront ( Live Demo by Instructor)                                                         

• Cloudfront overview and pricing
• Create a origin bucket for cloudfront
• Upload file to origin bucket
• Create CDN distribution and use origin bucket
• Access files through Cloudfront distribution

Module 6: AWS other storage options ( Theory only)                                                     

• Storage Gateway – Overview and pricing
• Snowball – Overview and Pricing
• Glacier – Overview and pricing
• Glacier – Live demo by instructor using fast glacier client

Day 3

Module 1 – Addon services and Points to Know ( Theory Only)

• Consolidated Billing
• AWS organization
• Cross Account Access
• Resource Groups and Tags
• VPC Peering
• Direct Connect
• Security Token Service
• Workspaces
• Active Directory Integration
• ECS
• Cloudwatch
• EBS Encryption
• User data
• EC2 Instance metadata
• Elastic File System
• Lambda concepts
• EC2 Placement groups
• EBS vs Instance store

Module 2  : AWS-  Webapp and  RDS    ( Hands on lab by students)                       

• RDS- An overview
• RDS –read replica
• RDS- Multi AZ failover
• RDS snapshots
1. Lab 1 : Create a RDS instance
2. Lab 2 : connecting to an RDS instance
3. Lab 3 : creating a RDS snapshots and restoring snapshot
4. Lab 4: Deleting RDS snapshots

• Deploy Web application in Amazon Ec2 ( media wiki)
• Connect your Media wiki web application with RDS instances securely
• Make media wiki available on public url for user sign up and write knowledge wiki
• Delete Your RDS instance

Module 3 : Other Database options  ( Theory Only)

1. DynamoDB – Overview and use case
2. Redshift – Overview and use case
3. Elastic cache – Overview and use case
4. Aurora DB – Overview and use case

Module 4 : Well Architected Framework    

• Introduction to the framework
• Security
• Reliability
• Performance
• Cost optimization
• Operational excellence

Module 5  : AWS Cloud Formation  ( Hands on lab by students)

• Infrastructure as Code using Cloud Formation
• Cloud formation – Create a new stack
• Create and deploy sample template in JSON format
• Use existing templates and deploy

Module 6 : AWS- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

• What is VPC? – A comprehensive introduction
• Networking bottlenecks
• Understanding VPC configurations
1. VPC with single public subnet
2. VPC with public and private subnet
3. VPC Peering
4. Access control List

• Configuring VPC Instances ( Hands on lab by students)
1. Creating a VPC
2. Subnets
3. Internet Gateway
4. Routing
5. Configuring a NAT Gateway
6. Creating security groups
7. Launching instances in public and private subnets
• NAT vs Bastions
• VPC Flow Logs
• VPC clean up

Module 7: Whitepaper overview – Must read whitepapers for students

• AWS security whitepaper
• AWS Risk and compliance
• Storage Options in Cloud
• Architecting for AWS best practices

Module 8 : AWS route 53  ( Live demo by instructor)                                                                     

• Route 53 - routing options
• Simple routing - Handons lab
• weighted routing policy lab
• latency based routing lab
• Geolocation based routing lab
• failover routing lab

Module 9 : Migrate to AWS

• Case studies
• Migration approach

AWS exam tips

• Exam blue print overview

Online - Live Instructor Led training 

Due to Covid - we dont engage classroom training till situations are ok

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