
Create a unique Amazon S3 bucket in US East North Virginia, keep it private, upload mp3 files, and explore optional features like versioning, tags, and encryption before deleting the bucket.
Set up a MySQL RDS database in the default VPC, configure security groups to allow port 3306 access, connect remotely with MySQL Workbench, and tear it down.
Create a CloudTrail trail to log activity into an S3 bucket, then view the JSON logs to see event sources and user identities. Delete the trail and empty the bucket.
Create an IAM user with management console access and administrator access in this lab, and learn why logging in as the root user should be avoided.
Explore AWS CloudShell to use the AWS CLI, verify the version, and create a unique S3 bucket with mb, then view it in the S3 console as preparation for Cloud9.
Discover the AWS free tier options, including 12 months free and always free, with EC2 750 hours for t2/t3 micro, S3 storage, Lambda limits, and domain purchases not covered.
Use AWS Certificate Manager to issue a public ssl certificate for your domain, including subdomains with a wildcard, via dns or email validation to enable https.
Explore trusted advisor, a web-based AWS expert system that audits resources across regions for cost optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, and service limits, including organizational reports.
Explore AWS databases from RDS and Aurora with backups, multi-AZ failover, and read replicas, then survey DynamoDB, DocumentDB, Neptune, Redshift, ElastiCache, and QLDB.
Explore AWS CloudWatch as a monitoring and observability service that collects logs and metrics, sets alarms, analyzes data with log insights, and triggers corrective actions and notifications.
Learn blue-green deployments on Elastic Beanstalk by cloning a blue environment to green, updating the Node.js sample code, deploying, testing on green, performing a DNS swap, and terminating environments.
Explore the foundations of ai, ml, and dl, including generative ai, supervised/unsupervised/reinforcement learning, and inferencing with transformers and foundation models.
Explore Amazon Translate, a neural machine translation service, to translate English text to Spanish and produce a JSON output containing source language, target language, and translated text.
Explore the AWS AI stack from the SageMaker ML lifecycle to Bedrock foundation models. Learn how Comprehend, Translate, Rekognition, Textract, Transcribe, Polly, and Lex power AI workloads.
Explore architecture patterns for AI-powered applications—microservices, event-driven, and serverless designs—integrating AWS AI services with governance, security, and cost optimization.
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Challenging real-life hands-on labs. All labs contain up-to-date downloadable lab notes that detail every step with screenshots. Whenever the AWS user interface changes, the lab notes are updated. This ensures you can get through the very complex labs without pulling your hair out.
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Review questions to test your knowledge along the way. These are based on real exam questions.
Full practice exams included to help prepare you for the real AWS Certified AI and Cloud Practitioner exams.