Cloud Computing Overview

• Why Cloud and What is Cloud Computing?
• Features and benefits of Cloud Computing
• Service Models in Cloud Computing:
  • SaaS (Software as a Service)
  • PaaS (Platform as a Service)
  • IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
• Deployment models in Cloud Computing:
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • Hybrid Cloud
  • Community Cloud

Linux Introduction

• Essential Linux commands
• Linux file system
• File permissions
• Process management
• User account management
• Software management
• Networking in Linux
• Web Server and Services Configurations

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

• EC2 Instance Launch Wizard with Windows and Linux OS
  • Virtualization in Cloud Models
  • Types of Virtualizations and Hypervisor Benefits
• EC2 Instance Types and Pricing Models:
  • On-Demand, Spot, Reserved Instances, Capacity Reservation, Savings Plan
• Managing EBS Volumes:
  • Creating, modifying, deleting, attaching, and detaching EBS Volumes
• Amazon Machine Image (AMI) / Custom AMI / Golden AMIs
• Generating custom Public and Private keys for EC2 instances
• Security groups NACLs

• Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM)
• Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) and Types:
  • Application, Network, Classic, Gateway Load Balancers
• Auto Scaling Groups and Policies:
  • Scaling Types, Rules, Target Groups, and Instance Management
  • Warm-up and Cool down management
• Creating Billing Alarm and EC2 Instance alarms

Elastic File System (EFS)

• Amazon EFS Overview and Architecture
• EFS Setup, Configuration, and Security
• Mounting EFS to EC2 Instances
• EFS Replication and Backups

AWS Backup

• Managing and automating backups across AWS services
• Creating backup plans and enabling/disabling AWS services for backups
• Terminating and restoring AWS resources (EC2, S3, )

AWS Systems Manager

• Run Command, Session Manager, Patch Manager
• Tag Editor, Resource Groups, and AWS Secrets Manager

AWS Transfer Family

• Overview of Amazon Transfer Family and its architecture
• Protocols: SFTP, FTP, FTPS
• Creating Transfer Server and transferring data to S3 and EFS

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

• VPC Basics:
  • Public and Private IPs, CIDR range, Subnet calculations
• Creating and managing VPCs
• Creating Internet Gateway and Subnets
• NAT Gateways, Routing Tables, and VPC Flow Logs
• Configuring VPC Peering, Site-to-Site VPN, Transit Gateways
• Configuring VPNs (OpenVPN/Site-to-site VPN) with AWS
• Using custom NACLs and Security Groups

AWS Storage

• Amazon S3 Overview:
  • S3 buckets, objects, and versioning
  • Storage classes, durability, lifecycle policies, permissions

• Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), Cross Region Replication, and Monitoring
• S3 Encryption, KMS, and Pre-Signed URLs
• Static Website Hosting and Event Notifications

• Overview of AWS Storage Gateway:
  • File Gateway, Volume Gateway, Tape Gateway
  • Configuring and securing Storage Gateways
  • Connecting on-premises systems to AWS Storage Gateway
• Overview of Glacier, Vaults, and Archives

Route 53

• DNS Records and Routing Policies:
  • Simple, Weighted, Failover, Geolocation, and Latency-based routing
  • Configuring Alias Records, Static Website Hosting, CloudFront
  • Health Checks and High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR)

Identity and Access Management (IAM)

• IAM Users, Groups, Policies, and Roles
• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for users and best practices
• AWS CLI Setup and usage across platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux)
• Auditing user activity and IAM policy management
• Shared Responsibility Model for IAM

AWS Relational Database Service (RDS)

• RDS Overview and Supported Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, Aurora)
• Creating and configuring RDS databases, backups, and security
• Multi-AZ Configuration, Read Replicas, and Proxies
• Monitoring and Performance Insights
• Connecting EC2 instances to RDS

Amazon DynamoDB (NoSQL DB Service)

• DynamoDB Overview and Concepts:
  • Creating Tables, Data Management, Read/Write Capacity
  • Strong vs Eventual Consistency, Global Tables, Backups
  • Import/Export to S3

AWS DataSync

• Overview of DataSync and Data Migration from On-Prem to AWS
• Transferring data between S3 and EFS

Amazon Redshift (Data Warehouse)

• Redshift Cluster Setup and Management
• Query Editor, Creating Tables, and Running Queries
• Data Export/Import and differences between RDS OLTP and Redshift OLAP

Python CDK and Boto3

• Overview of Boto3 libraries
• Creating Infrastructure with Boto3
• Configuration of EC2 and installation of Python, pip, and Boto3

AWS Lambda (Serverless)

• Overview of AWS Lambda and its configuration with services
• Automating tasks with Lambda and Boto3
• Understanding Lambda Layers and Limitations

Elastic Beanstalk

• Understanding Beanstalk Architecture
• Configuring Applications and Environments
• Deploying applications (e.g., Tomcat, Python)
• Blue-Green Deployment, Monitoring, and Logs

AWS Security Services

• AWS Secrets Manager, CloudTrail, Certificate Manager
• AWS Shield and Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Application Services

• Simple Email Service (SES), Simple Queue Service (SQS), Simple Notification Service (SNS)
• AWS Simple Monthly Calculator

Migration Services

• Server and Storage Migration (e.g., SMS, Azure to AWS, GCP to AWS)
• Database Migration Service (DMS)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with CloudFormation and Terraform

• Overview of CloudFormation Templates and Parameters
• Introduction to Terraform, Commands, and File Blocks
• Creating AWS Custom Networks using Terraform

AWS Machine Learning Overview

• Overview of AWS Machine Learning Services:

• Rekognition, Transcribe, Polly, Translate, Lex, Connect, Comprehend, SageMaker, Forecast, Kendra, Personalize

DevOps Overview

• Overview of DevOps tools and the DevOps lifecycle