Become AWS Certified - Solutions Architect Associate 2018

Explore AWS basic concepts and how elastic, on-demand resources replace costly physical data centers. See how automation and scalable provisioning align IT with business needs.

Explore how regions and availability zones structure the Adewusi cloud. Understand how cloud front edge locations improve performance and how services roll out region by region.

Explore AWS regions, availability zones, and edge locations, and review core compute, storage, and database services, including elastic compute cloud, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, Route 53, and IAM.

Learn how to sign up for the AWS free tier, create a personal account, verify identity by phone, and access basic free-tier resources in the console.

Set up and manage AWS CloudWatch billing alerts to monitor monthly charges, enable billing data monitoring, and configure email notifications to stay within budget.

Learn the shared responsibility model, distinguishing cloud security by AWS versus customer, and apply IAM, MFA, groups, roles, and S3 permissions to secure accounts and data.

Configure identity and access management in aws by selecting a region, enabling multifactor authentication, creating iam users and groups, assigning policies, and enforcing a strong password policy.

Understand s3 as an object storage service with 11 nines durability, 99.99% availability, versioning, buckets, and encryption, plus read-after-write and eventual consistency and storage tiers from standard to Glacier.

Explore advanced S3 concepts, including versioning, encryption, cross-region replication, and lifecycle management, with hands-on labs on enabling versioning, replicating data, and auto transitioning to infrequent access and Glacier.

Create an S3 bucket, upload files, and experiment with public permissions and encryption. Move objects into a training subfolder, switch to standard infrequent access, and apply 256-bit encryption.

Enable versioning on an S3 bucket to manage multiple object versions, use delete markers to protect against accidental deletion, and restore previous versions when needed.

Enable cross region replication by copying objects from a source bucket to a Tokyo destination bucket with versioning enabled, replicating only future changes. Verify with a test upload.

Configure lifecycle rules in the AWS console to automatically transition objects: standard, then frequent access after 30 days, and Glacier after 365 days, including previous versions and deletion.

Discover how CloudFront delivers S3 bucket content with edge locations, using origins, Route 53 DNS, TTL, invalidation, signed URLs, WAF, SSL, and Origin Access Identity for secure, fast delivery.

Configure a web distribution in CloudFront to cache content at edge locations, manage origins from S3, set access restrictions, protocol policies, TTL, and optional signed URLs.

Unlock storage gateway to integrate on-premise and cloud storage with a local cache, enabling hybrid workloads and low latency using NAFS, I Skuzzy, and volume gateway options.

Explore migrating on-prem data to the AWS cloud with import/export and snowball, snowball edge, and snowmobile, and speed uploads with transfer acceleration to S3.

Explore how hypervisors enable multiple virtual machines on a single host in EC2, each with isolated memory, CPU, and storage.

Explore how EC2 virtual machines run on hypervisors, with on-demand, reserved, convertible reserved, and spot pricing. Learn to choose instance types, pay-per-second Linux billing, and strategies for scalable, fault-tolerant deployments.

Explore elastic block store (EBS) volumes for EC2 instances, including GP2 and provisioned IOPS, burst behavior, latency, and boot volumes that shape performance.

Launch a Linux EC2 instance using an Amazon Linux AMI, select a free tier t2 micro, configure VPC, subnet, IP, and attach an IAM role with S3 full access.

Learn a handy way to connect to an EC2 instance from Windows, Mac, or Linux using the AWS console connect option and PuTTY on Windows.

Connect to a linux EC2 instance using PuTTY and PuTTYgen by importing and saving the private key, then SSH into the instance as ec2-user using the public IP address.

Security groups act as stateful firewalls for EC2 instances, allowing outbound traffic by default and permitting return traffic. Configure inbound rules for security groups in a VPC to control access.

Configure AWS security groups to control inbound and outbound traffic, understand implicitly denied rules, and learn stateful firewall behavior, including immediate rule effects and troubleshooting assignments for a web server.

Explore how to configure EBS RAID on EC2 instances, using striping for performance (RAID zero) and mirroring for redundancy (RAID one), while noting RAID five is discouraged.

Create a Windows EC2 instance, attach two eight-gig volumes, and configure a RAID 0 stripe for better performance, then connect via remote desktop and terminate to avoid charges.

Use Amazon Machine Images (AMI) to deploy identical EC2 instances by capturing a configured root volume as a snapshot. Learn to manage permissions and launch from AMIs across regions.

Discover how to create a custom ami by stopping a web one instance, taking an application-consistent snapshot of its ebs volume, and creating an image to deploy new instances.

Compare EBS and instance store as persistent versus ephemeral block storage, highlighting durability, latency, encryption, and use cases like cluster data and batch processing.

Launch a cost-efficient Amazon Linux 64-bit instance with instance store, selecting the smallest type and attaching a store volume; terminate to erase, reboot preserves data.

Learn to manage AWS EBS volumes and snapshots by renaming instances, creating and attaching volumes in the correct availability zone, and formatting new volumes with Linux file systems.

Use the AWS CLI to load credentials into a guest OS, launch a temporary instance, configure an IAM user and group with S3 access, and clean up credentials and resources.

Demonstrates assigning a role to an EC2 instance, configuring the web servers security group, launching a free tier Amazon Linux micro instance, and using role-based access to list S3 buckets.

Learn how elastic load balancers distribute traffic across regional instances, perform health checks, enable cross-zone balancing, and support failover with Route 53 DNS and sticky sessions.

Create a network load balancer with a target group for web one and web two, adjust health checks, and verify traffic uses the DNS name to reach healthy instances.

Master auto scaling by scaling out and scaling in to meet demand, using launch configurations and auto scaling groups with cloud watch and elastic load balancer health checks.

Create an auto scaling group, attach it to an elastic load balancer, and configure launch configurations, user data scripts, health checks, and scaling policies to maintain healthy, scalable web servers.

Explore CloudWatch, AWS's monitoring service for resources and applications, with metrics like CPU, data transfer, and logs; learn alarms, auto scaling, and integrations with SNS, Lambda, and EC2.

build a CloudWatch dashboard with per-instance cpu utilization, add widgets, and create an 80 percent cpu alarm for one minute with email notifications and optional auto scaling.

Learn how EC2 instance and system status checks distinguish hardware health from operating system issues in the AWS console, and how rebooting can resolve many problems.

Explore how CloudTrail captures all AWS API calls as logs, stores them in a dedicated S3 bucket, and configures trails, data events, and permissions for auditing and security.

Enable VPC flow logs to capture traffic for a VPC, subnet, or interface and publish to CloudWatch logs, then analyze accepted and rejected traffic to troubleshoot.

Learn how AWS Route 53 DNS service monitors endpoints with health checks, and apply routing policies—simple, weighted, latency-based, and geo location—using alias records for elastic load balancers and multi-region failover.

Create a route 53 hosted zone and dns record with a fake domain to demonstrate configuring record sets, ttl, and a simple routing policy, then clean up.

Register a domain in Route 53, launch two Ohio web servers with user data, create an elastic load balancer, and point an alias DNS record to the ELB.