AWS Beginner to Intermediate: EC2, IAM, ELB, ASG, Route 53

Learn to copy permissions between IAM users by creating a new user, attaching policies from an existing user, and confirming admin group access, while securely handling access keys.

Create IAM groups and attach Amazon EC2 full access, AWS CodeBuild Developer Access, and Amazon ECS full access for developers and test groups; add Kelly, Kim, and Bill to groups.

Learn about IAM roles, an IAM identity linked to a policy that grants permissions, using temporary credentials when assumed by users or apps for cross-account access and EC2 workloads.

Create and configure IAM roles to grant an EC2 instance read and write access to S3, using a practical hands-on exercise that attaches policies and demonstrates trusted entities.

Allocate an elastic IP and attach it to your existing EC2 instance to create a reserved public IP that remains when the instance state changes, accessible via HTTP.

Create an Amazon machine image (AMI) from an EC2 instance, configure its volumes and permissions, then launch a replica instance with correct security settings.

Learn how security groups act as virtual firewalls in AWS, controlling inbound and outbound traffic with rules, default settings, and the ability to authorize or revoke access.

Learn secure shell SSH for administering EC2 instances via command lines over the internet, compare Mac, Linux, Windows clients, EC2 instance connect limitations, and command execution and file transfer capabilities.

Compare AWS storage options—S3 object storage, EBS block storage, and EFS file storage—and assess pricing, durability, availability, performance, accessibility, and use cases.

Manage Amazon Elastic Block Store volumes on an instance, detach non-root volumes, and review volume details such as ID, size, type, IOPS, encryption, and availability zone.

Explore how EBS snapshots, stored as S3 objects, are incremental backups that save only changed blocks, create exact replicas, load data in the background, and enable cross-AZ or cross-region replication.

Create and configure an ec2 image pipeline using image recipes, infrastructure configuration, and distribution settings, including cloudwatch agent, corretto, and aws cli on amazon linux 2 emi.

Deploy an Ubuntu 20.04 EC2 instance and create a new key pair. Configure a security group for HTTP and NFS, then connect via SSH and update the system.

Create an elastic file system in the AWS console, configure a VPC and standard storage, and mount the EFS to an EC2 instance using DNS and the NFS client.

Mount an existing elastic file system to a new EC2 instance during deployment. Learn to attach a shared EFS to two instances simultaneously and verify access to the mounted files.

Explore how elastic load balancers distribute traffic among healthy EC2 targets using listeners and target groups, with application load balancers handling HTTP traffic and health checks.

Create an elastic load balancer and auto scaling group using a launch template and a custom AMI from Ubuntu 20.04 with Apache, enabling automatic deployment and traffic distribution.

Discover how autoscaling groups automatically deploy or terminate EC2 instances based on application load, integrated with the application load balancer and health checks.

Learn to implement scheduled scaling in autoscaling groups by creating scheduled actions with set capacity, recurrence, and start times, including once or cron-based intervals, with a hands-on demo.

Learn how DNS translates domain names to IP addresses and routes traffic to websites using Amazon Route 53, AWS's scalable, reliable domain name system.