AWS Technical Essentials - Build Real World Projects
What you'll learn
- Gain real world hands-on experience on AWS by building and deploying applications in the cloud
- Understand the fundamentals technologies of AWS - IAM, S3, EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, Load Balancers, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch and more
- Learn best practices and security recommendations when designing cloud solutions
- Complete a real-world IT Project which you can discuss at job interviews
Requirements
- No previous AWS Knowledge required as you learn from the ground up and building on your newly acquired skills
- Laptop or Workstation with Windows, Linux or MacOS to perform the demo lessons
- An email address and credit/debit card for the AWS account(s)
- The course stays mostly within the free tier to avoid costs
Description
Welcome to the AWS Technical Essentials Course - The Ultimate Hands-On Training Course!
This hands-on technical course will teach you about core AWS services and products. You will also gain hands-on experience through our step-by-step video demonstrations on how to build common cloud solutions. With this fundamentals course, you can make informed decisions about IT solutions based on your business requirements and learn how to build highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable and cost-effective cloud solutions.
Whether you are a business looking to migrate your applications to the cloud or an IT professional wanting to learn more about the AWS platform, this course is a foundational starting point. You can then take further certification courses to specialize in different job roles and build cloud solutions for your organization and clients.
Course Objectives
This AWS course will help you learn and understand the following:
AWS platform terminology and cloud concepts
The AWS Global Infrastructure and Use cases
Basic AWS cloud architectural principles
Cloud security concepts and AWS security
AWS storage concepts
AWS networking concepts
AWS compute services with block storage
AWS Database concepts and managed database services
Deployment and Management options
Updates to the Course:
March 2025
Section 6 - Databases on AWS
Section 7 - Management and Governance
Course Structure
The course comprises core theoretical concepts and several hands-on demonstrations to help you build your practical experience on the AWS platform. By the end of the course, you will gain confidence in architecting, designing and implementing solutions on AWS to support a wide range of applications.
Project Assignment
The course also includes a Project Assignment, where we look at a typical real-world scenario and learn how to fulfil a business requirement. The Project Assignment section will walk you through architecting a solution for the given scenario and demonstrate complete end-to-end implementation. At the end of the project section, you will be requested to carry out the project in your own AWS Free Tier account and submit your assignment to your instructor. Your instructor will then check your assignment and grade your work.
Note: Completion of the assignment is mandatory if you would like to receive a Certificate of Completion at the end of the course.
Intended Audience
Individuals responsible for articulating the business benefits of AWS services
IT Professionals new to AWS
Sysops administrators and developers who are interested in using AWS services
Course Outline
Section 1 – Introduction to Cloud Computing, AWS Services and History of AWS
Section 2 – AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and other security concepts
Section 3 – Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Section 4 – AWS Networking Services
Section 5 – AWS Elastic Compute Cloud and EBS, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling and Serverless Compute options
Section 6 - AWS RDS and DynamoDB NoSQL Databases
Section 7 - AWS Management Tools - CloudWatch and Trusted Advisor
Section 8 - Project Assignment - Design and Implement a cloud solution on AWS for a typical business use case
Who this course is for:
- IT Professionals new to Cloud Computing and the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform
- Individuals responsible for articulating the technical benefits of AWS services to customers
- Individuals interested in learning how to get started with AWS
- SysOps administrators
- Solutions architects
- Developers
Instructor
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 4,383 Reviews
- 48,182 Students
- 4 Courses
Rajesh is a Senior Solutions Architect, AWS Course Content creator and corporate trainer with over 20 years of experience in core IT Infrastructure services and cloud computing. Rajesh has delivered corporate training programs and online training for several clients across the UK, US and India and also published courses for Packt Publishing.
Rajesh now delivers courses for the IaaS Academy which is an online training provider which delivers On-Demand Cloud Computing Training and Practice Exam Simulators to help students and IT Professional successfully pass IT Certification exams. You will also find extensive blog articles and exam tips on the IaaS Academy website to help you with your study and revision.