AWS Certified AI & Cloud Practitioner Amazon Web Services

Explore the AWS global infrastructure, cloud computing models, and AWS products and services through hands-on labs, while learning about regions, availability zones, edge locations, and key services.

Create and manage an AWS account, use Cost Explorer and budgets, and set up alerts to control monthly costs within the free tier.

Explore AWS storage services including S3, Glacier, EBS, EFS, and Storage Gateway, and learn to implement hybrid and disaster recovery solutions with Snowball and VPC endpoints.

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.

Explore AWS database services, including RDS options for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and Aurora, plus DynamoDB, Redshift, ElastiCache, and Neptune for scalable data management.

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.

Learn how AWS compute and networking services work together to run scalable web apps. Deploy a WordPress site on EC2 and explore autoscaling, load balancing, CloudFront, VPC, and Route 53.

Launch a Linux EC2 instance with WordPress via Bitnami AMI from the AWS Marketplace, configure a security group and public IP, access wp-admin, then terminate to avoid charges.

Explore AWS management and governance services, including CloudTrail, CloudFormation, Service Catalog, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, Config, OpsWorks, and Trusted Advisor, through a hands-on lab.

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.

Explore how AWS Step Functions coordinate distributed components and decouple demand with SQS and SNS, then practice sending an email with SES in a hands-on lab.

Explore AWS analytics and machine learning services, from EMR and Athena to SageMaker, Rekognition, Lex, and OpenSearch, and learn how they analyze data in S3, DynamoDB, and beyond.

Explore Amazon Rekognition demos including label detection, image moderation, facial analysis, celebrity recognition, face comparison, and text in image, with SDK integration across JavaScript, Java, PHP, and Python.

Explore AWS security, identity, and compliance services, including IAM, AWS Artifact, Certificate Manager, Cognito, KMS, Shield, WAF, Inspector, and Organizations, and complete an IAM hands-on lab.

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 services across developer, media, mobile, migration, business productivity, and IoT, including AWS Cloud9, AWS Codestar, CodePipeline, Elemental MediaConvert, AWS Mobile Hub, AWS Greengrass, and AWS WorkSpaces.

Explore how to set up Amazon WorkSpaces, focusing on selecting free tier options, launching a workspace, logging in through a directory service, and removing resources to avoid charges.

Explore how AWS Elastic Beanstalk automates deployment and manages environments, delivering highly available, fault-tolerant architectures with auto scaling, load balancing, health checks, and diverse deployment options.

Deploy a highly available, fault-tolerant Node.js app with AWS Elastic Beanstalk, featuring a load balancer, auto-scaling across multiple availability zones, and easy rollback to previous versions.

Learn how to connect to AWS services using the command-line interface, authenticate with IAM credentials or temporary tokens, and explore AWS CloudShell, Cloud9, and related CLI tools.

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.

Launch a Cloud9 development environment on EC2 and use the command line to transfer files to an S3 bucket.

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.

Explore cloud economics and the business case for AWS. Use the pricing calculator, migration evaluators, and compliance tools to compare on-premises costs with AWS, while reducing risk and accelerating migration.

Discover how AWS architectures leverage the Well-Architected Framework, reference architectures, and infrastructure as code with CloudFormation templates to build secure, reliable, and cost-efficient cloud solutions, with compliance tooling.

Learn to build a bulletproof static HTML5 website on AWS by using S3 hosting, CloudFront edge distributions, Route 53 routing, and SSL for secure, low-latency delivery.

Create an Amazon S3 bucket, upload the HTML5 website files, enable static website hosting, and view the public site via the bucket endpoint.

Register a domain with AWS Route 53, verify via email, and prepare for SSL by linking a registered domain like backspace-lab.com and reviewing pricing.

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.

Create a CloudFront distribution with an S3 origin to deliver a secure, low-latency website worldwide, redirecting http to https, enabling ssl, ddos protection, and Route 53 domain routing.

Route 53 routes the domain to a CloudFront distribution with an alias A record and a www CNAME, using certificate manager DNS verification, propagation, and SSL.

Master identity and access management in AWS, including users, groups, roles, and identity federation, under the shared responsibility model with AWS Organizations and CloudTrail auditing.

Create and manage iam users, groups, and policies; configure a password policy, roles for ec2 access, and an account alias, then generate a credentials report and plan for multi-factor authentication.

Set up AWS root user multi-factor authentication via the Authy app, configure a virtual MFA device, scan the QR code, and follow lab notes to secure IAM access.

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.

Understand EC2 purchasing models—from on-demand, spot, and reserved instances, to savings plans. Explore instance types, storage options, and remote access methods for optimized workloads.

Launch an Amazon Linux 2 AMI with EC2 instance connect to access a Linux terminal in the browser, verify status checks pass, then terminate the instance after a quick lab.

Launch a Windows EC2 instance, enable RDP on port 3389, and decrypt the password with your key pair. Download RDP file, connect via Windows remote desktop, then terminate the instance.

Explore Amazon S3 storage classes, including Glacier archiving and intelligent-tiering, and learn to implement lifecycle rules, cross-region replication, and security monitoring with Macie.

Implement S3 bucket versioning, manage multiple object versions, and recover deleted items using delete markers, then automate aging with a lifecycle rule to move non-current versions to Amazon Glacier.

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 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, including public and private subnets, routing and route tables, and connectivity options like VPC peering, Direct Connect, and VPN, with security groups and WAF.

Explore the default VPC in AWS, with six public subnets across all us east 1 availability zones, its route table, internet gateway, and default network ACL.

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.

Define infrastructure as code with CloudFormation templates. Deploy containerized apps with ECS, EKS, ECR, and Fargate using ci/cd with CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, and blue/green, canary, rolling, and in-place strategies.

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 how CloudFormation enables infrastructure as code by defining resources in JSON or YAML templates, managing them as stacks, and using the designer for drag-and-drop template generation.

Explore big data workflows in AWS, ingesting data and preparing it for analysis. Analyze S3 data with Athena, EMR, OpenSearch, and QuickSight, and enable real-time analytics with Kinesis.