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Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2: An Introduction
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2: An Introduction

Gain Basic Understanding on AWS Virtual Cloud Servers
Created byDr Monjur Ahmed
Last updated 8/2018
English

What you'll learn

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

Course content

1 section • 10 lectures • 1h 27m total length

  • Introduction3:10

    Explore AWS EC2, a cloud computing service that lets you create and scale virtual servers across regions with cloud formation, while understanding virtualization, IP addressing, and security.

  • Create Key-Pair8:55

    Discover how to create a key pair on Amazon Web Services, covering public and private keys, and how to generate and save the private key using PuTTYgen on Windows.

  • Create Key Pair
  • Launch A Virtual Server11:24

    Log in to the AWS console, open EC2, and launch an instance by selecting AMI and instance type, then configure storage, tags, and a security group, and connect via SSH.

  • Launch a Virtual Server
  • Monitoring a Virtual Server9:45
  • Monitoring a Virtual Server
  • Launch VM in a New Location4:22

    Launch virtual servers in a new location by selecting a data center, and create a separate key pair for that location to keep deployments independent.

  • Launch VM in a New Location
  • Install a Webserver on Virtual Server15:36

    Learn to install and start a web server on an AWS EC2 virtual instance, access it via SSH, and verify with a running placeholder page.

  • Install a Webserver on Virtual Server
  • Allocate IP Address to a Virtual Server9:22

    Allocate an elastic IP to a specific EC2 instance to provide a fixed public address that does not change after stop/start, and learn how to associate and release it.

  • Allocate IP Address to a Virtual Server
  • Launch a WordPress Website13:44

    Launch a WordPress website on an AWS EC2 instance using a marketplace image, selecting a t2 micro in Singapore. Retrieve admin login from the system log and access via IP.

  • Allocate Multiple IP Addresses to a Virtual Server10:27

    Learn how to allocate multiple IP addresses to a single AWS EC2 instance by adding network interfaces and Elastic IP addresses to host multiple websites on one server.

  • Allocate Multiple IP Addresses to a Virtual Server
  • Conclusions0:49

Requirements

  • Familiar with the concept of AWS and have an AWS account. A computer with internet connection.

Description

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.

Who this course is for:

  • Someone who has conceptual understanding on Cloud Computing and want to learn how Cloud services work in real life.

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