AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate [Latest Exam]

This lectures covers what Cloud computing is, Explains its Offerings (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)

it also Introduces the cloud types, Public , Private and Hybrid Clouds

This lectures covers AWS position as the leader for IaaS public Cloud offerings, and Why you should become AWS Certified along that line!

This lectures introduce AWS global Infrastructure and explains the concept of Regions, Availability Zones, and Data Centers as they pertain to AWS.

First time login to the Console. And enabling MFA to the root account. An overview of the Console is also discussed.

The lecture introduces concepts like authentication and authorization. It also paves the way to learn IAM by introducing IAM identities, IAM User, Groups, Roles, and Permissions. Also demonstrates creating an IAM user.

This lectures shows how to create IAM users, how to launch them into an IAM group, group permissions, adding/removing users from a group.

Complete the five additional steps to complete the account setup and learn about setting the account password policy.

This hands on lab will demonstrate how to set AWS account usage alarms such that you are notified when your usage reaches a set threshold.

Explaining VPC Components:

1) Implied Router

2) Route Table

VPC Components:

1) IP Addressing

2) Internet Gateway

3) Public and Private Subnets

This Lan demonstrates the following VPC features/Components:

- VPC Overview

- Regions, Availability Zones and their relations to VPCs

- Default VPC created in each Region for newly created accounts

- Introduction to route tables and route tables default entries

- Editing Route tables

- Subnets, their features, and association to Route tables

This Lab demonstrates the following VPC components/features:

Internet Gateway 

Route tables

Additional VPC CIDR Blocks

The lectures explains:

1) Default and Custom VPC Types

2) Introduces Security Groups

A deep dive into VPC, creating a Custom VPC, A deep dive on Route table, Subnet to Route table association.

This lectures covers Security Groups in a VPC in details.

More in depth knowledge about security groups, how they work, inbound vs. outbound traffic

This lectures introduces VPC Network Access Control Lists, their function, how it works, inbound vs. outbound

A hands on demo and a deep dive into VPC NACLs

An even deeper dive at N ACLs and Security Groups, contrasting them to each other.

The Lectures provides two scenarios to help you apply the knowledge learned about Security Groups and N ACLs

Explaining NAT, and NAT instance Security Groups

This lectures explains the VPC to VPC peering, how it works, and its limitations.

This hands on demo will introduce how to configure VPC Peering between VPCs from the same AWS Account in two different AWS Regions.

This lectures explains how site to site IPSec VPN can be used to connect your AWS VPC to your corporate HQ or Data Center.

This lecture explains AWS Direct Connect and how it can be used to provide a higher performance, higher bandwidth, and low latency connectivity between your VPC and Data Center or HQ

Test your theory lectures' comprehension level by practicing on these questions before going through the answers in the guided practice.

This lecture explains EBS types, Block Device Mapping and an Introduction to Snapshots

In this Demonstration lab, an Instance-Store backed EC2 instance is launched, and comparison to the EBS-Backed EC2 instance is discussed.

This lecture details the EC2 enhanced networking feature, and EC2 placement groups

This lecture discussed the Placement groups feature of EC2.

This lectures describes in detail the EC2 Service status checks, how it monitors and report on EC2 instances health. Also details the Cloud Watch monitoring options for EC2 instances, both the default and the detailed one.

This lecture details the different EC2 instance states, an EC2 instance can go through, including pending, running, stopping, stopped, and terminated states.

This lectures describes the different ways an instance can be terminated, and also details how to enable and use the termination protection feature.

This lecture explains what EC2 instance Metadata and User data are, how to read them, and what they are for.

This lecture will touch on how we can migrate virtual machines (VMs) from/to AWS EC2, and How the VM Import/Export works.

This lectures the idea of a bastion host, and why/how we use it for remote access/administration of AWS EC2 instances.

A detailed explanation of the ENIs, what can be done during launch, and what can be done later.

This lecture explains the ENI IP address attributes, how they can be used.

It also touches on secondary IPv4 addresses & re-assignment

This lecture explains the NAT instance Source/Destination flag (check). And how it should be configured for the NAT instance to function properly.

This lecture explains how the Public IPv4 address assignment works, and explains the difference of default and custom subnets and how it impacts this.

A very deep dive on TCP IP Packet walkthroughs in different scenarios, including AWS and NAT. A must for the Project DEMO labs coming after.

A combined lab that uses a scenario which involves custom VPC, Customer Security groups, Custom NACLs, and EC2 instances.

This lecture introduces block store types, a review from the EC2 section. Then elaborates on the respective features

Introduction to EBS snapshots, with detailed explanation of the process of a snapshot

Further critical exam details on EBS Snapshots 

This lectures introduces EBS encryption, EBS encryption supports on EC2 instances, Encryption of data in-transit and at rest on EBS volumes.

This lectures continues the discussion from the previous lecture about EBS encryption. It also explains how the encryption state of an EBS volume can be changed.

This lectures describes the ways to share un-encrypted or encrypted EBS snapshots with other AWS Accounts.

This lectures elaborates on the EBS snapshot copy process, its use cases, and how it can be used to migrate EBS Snapshots between Regions.

This lectures discusses the creation and registration of AMIs from Instance-Store Backed EC2 instances.

This lectures describes the process of creating an AMI from an EBS-backed EC2 instances, and highlights the differences between how AWS handles Instance-Store Backed EC2 instances' AMIs and those of EBS-backed EC2 instances.

This lectures explains RAID at a high level and demonstrates how it can be used to enhance/optimize the IOPS rate/performance of an EBS volume(s).