Course Outline

1) Cloud Fundamentals and AWS

  • Cloud Computing concepts
  • Service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
  • Deployment models (Public, Private, Hybrid, Multicloud)
  • Introduction to AWS
  • Global infrastructure: Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge Locations
  • Accessing AWS Management Console and CLI

Hands-on:

  • Account creation, initial setup, and console navigation
  • User configuration in IAM (Identity and Access Management)

2) Computing and Networking

  • Compute Services
    • Amazon EC2: instances, AMIs, types, auto scaling
    • AWS Lambda: serverless computing
  • Networking Services
    • Amazon VPC: subnets, routes, gateways, security
    • Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

Hands-on:

  • Launching and accessing an EC2 instance
  • Creating a simple VPC with public and private subnets

3) Storage and Databases

  • Storage Services
    • Amazon S3: buckets, policies, versioning
    • Amazon EBS and Amazon EFS
  • Database Services
    • Amazon RDS (MySQL/PostgreSQL)
    • Amazon Aurora (MySQL/PostgreSQL)
    • DynamoDB (NoSQL)

Hands-on:

  • Creating and configuring an S3 bucket for static website hosting
  • Creating an RDS database and accessing it via EC2 instance

4) Security, Monitoring, and Automation

  • Security and Governance
    • IAM (users, groups, roles, and policies)
    • Secrets Manager and Parameter Store: best practices for secret management
    • AWS Organizations and cost control
  • Monitoring
    • Amazon CloudWatch: metrics, logs, and alarms
    • AWS CloudTrail: activity auditing
  • Automation
    • AWS CloudFormation: infrastructure as code

Hands-on:

  • Creating alarms in CloudWatch
  • Simple deployment using CloudFormation

5) Integration, API Gateway, and Final Project

  • Service Integration
    • Amazon API Gateway: creation, configuration, and API security
    • Integration with AWS Lambda and DynamoDB
    • Highly available and scalable architectures
    • Using managed services (ECS/EKS – introduction)
  • Best Practices
    • Well-Architected Framework
    • AWS cost management and optimization

Final Project Hands-on:
Building a simple web application on AWS integrating:

  • API Gateway + Lambda (serverless backend)
  • S3 (static site or asset storage)
  • RDS or DynamoDB (data layer)
  • CloudWatch for monitoring

Requirements

  • An understanding of basic IT concepts
  • Experience with general networking
  • Familiarity with databases and web applications

Audience

  • IT professionals
  • System administrators
  • Developers exploring cloud platforms
 35 Hours

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