Advanced Operations on AWS

Name: Advanced Operations on AWS
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A Very Simple Introduction to the Amazing World of Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Created byRohan Arora

Last updated 11/2021

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What you'll learn

Test new skills and apply knowledge to your working environment through a variety of practical exercises
Specific AWS features and tools related to configuration and deployment, in addition to best practices for configuring and deploying systems
Manage, secure, and scale compute instances on AWS
Build virtual private networks with Amazon VPC
Configure and manage storage options utilizing the storage services offered with AWS
Monitor the health of your infrastructure with services such as Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config
Manage resource consumption in an AWS account using Tags, Amazon CloudWatch, and AWS Trusted Advisor
Create and configure automated and repeatable deployments with tools such as AMIs and AWS CloudFormation

Course content

6 sections • 72 lectures • 22h 53m total length

IAM Introduction and IAM Users10:23
Creating and Configuring IAM Users17:14
IAM Groups10:45
Creating and Configuring IAM Groups6:24
IAM Roles17:41
Getting Started with IAM Roles2:59
Create an IAM role, attach the Amazon S3 full access policy, and assign the role to an EC2 instance to grant it full access to S3 buckets in your account.
JSON Policies for Permissions Management4:30
Creating and Implementing an IAM Custom JSON Policy15:31
Implementation of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)6:50
Learn to implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) using a virtual MFA device, configure authenticator apps on smartphones or tablets, scan QR codes, and activate MFA for IAM users and root accounts.
Bonus Lecture: IAM Masterclass | May 14, 20192:00:38

Introduction to S316:19
Amazon S3 provides secure, durable object storage across regions, hosting unlimited data in buckets and supporting versioning, access control, storage classes, and cross-region replication.
Managing Bucket's Permissions via Bucket Policy7:37
Develop and apply a bucket policy to control access, using the policy generator, and test delete permissions against IAM policies.
Versioning6:41
Server Access Logging3:26
Enable server access logging to capture details about access requests and troubleshooting insights, and store logs in the same region bucket with a designated prefix for easy analysis.
Transfer Acceleration7:09
Cross Region Replication15:08
S3 Masterclass | AWS Storage |May 15, 20191:50:19

Amazon EC2 Overview8:44
IP Addresses1:40
Learn about private IP addresses for internal VPC communication, public IP addresses for internet access, and elastic IPs as static, persistent allocations tied to your account.
VPC Overview6:44
Launch and Connect to an EC2 Linux Instance26:55
Connect to an EC2 Linux Instance from Windows OS7:49
Connect to an EC2 Linux Instance from macOS3:52
Connect from macOS to an EC2 Linux instance via the Mac terminal using a desktop private key, then SSH to the public IP or DNS after setting permissions.
Launch and Connect to an EC2 Windows Instance3:47
Connect to EC2 Windows Instance from Windows OS3:02
Connect to a Windows EC2 instance from Windows OS by updating inbound security group rules, downloading the RDP file, and decrypting the login password with your private key on AWS.
Connect to an EC2 Windows Instance from macOS5:09
Associating Elastic IPs to EC2 Instances11:22
Create an Amazon Machine Image11:08
Learn how to create a customized Amazon machine image (AMI) by launching a public AMI, installing software and bootstrapped scripts, applying customizations, and capturing the image to deploy multiple instances.
Changing the Instance Types of Existing EC2 Instances2:31
Install CLI on Windows OS3:47
Install CLI on macOS3:29
Configure CLI5:36
Configure the CLI by authenticating with your access key and secret key in your terminal, then set the region and default output format to enable deploying and monitoring resources.
AWS Lambda2:04
Introduction to AWS Lambda8:54
Set up a Scaled and Load-Balanced Application using Target Tracking Policy45:14
Set up a scalable, highly available app on AWS by using a customized image, a classic load balancer, an auto scaling group, and a CPU-based target tracking policy.
Bonus Lecture: EC2 Masterclass | Sep 1, 20192:30:14
Explore EC2 masterclass basics: launching EC2 instances with AMIs, choosing instance types, configuring VPCs and IPs, managing EBS volumes, security groups, and key pairs, plus CloudWatch monitoring.
Bonus Lecture: EC2 Masterclass | Launching an EC2 Instance | Nov 14, 20191:51:23
Learn to launch an EC2 instance on AWS. Explore AMIs, instance types, vertical and horizontal scaling, IP addressing, VPCs, security groups, and on-demand, reserved, and spot pricing.

Introduction0:38
Explore the relevance and implementation of routing policies in business architecture, including failover to location and tie value, with foundational concepts and extensive hands-on labs.
DNS 1012:09
Exploring DNS Service Options and Domain Registration Lab14:52
Routing Polices0:36
Simple Routing Policy23:39
Weighted Routing Policy5:36
Latency Routing Policy7:45
Failover Routing Policy15:01
Geolocation Routing Policy7:28
Multivalue Answer Routing7:51
Summary1:18
Bonus Lecture: Route 53 Masterclass | AWS Networking | May 18, 20191:41:22
This masterclass conducted on May 18, 2019 is based on Route 53, which is a DNS service provided by AWS.
Route 53 Quiz

Introduction1:15
VPC Overview2:13
IP Addresses1:59
Subnets9:17
Internet Gateway5:09
Route Tables13:09
Network Address Translation (NAT)4:30
Security Groups7:12
Network Access Control Lists (NACLs)12:58
Learn how network access control lists (NACLs) add a firewall layer to a VPC, with stateless inbound and outbound rules ordered ascending, default versus custom ACLs, and subnet associations.
VPC Costs1:41
Building a Non-Default VPC Part 127:12
Build a custom non-default VPC from scratch using a reference architecture, defining CIDR ranges, public and private subnets, Elastic IPs, Internet gateway, and NAT gateway.
Building a Non-Default VPC Part 222:05
Building a Non-Default VPC Part 320:34
Building a Non-Default VPC Part 47:36
VPC Endpoints9:35
VPC Flow Logs6:30
Summary2:24
Bonus Lecture: Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Masterclass | May 21 and 22, 20193:23:23
In this masterclass, I have discussed VPC components in detail, and thereafter showed the entire process to deploy a Non-Default VPC. It also consists of VPC Peering and NACL configuration.
VPC Quiz

Introduction1:05
CloudFormation8:33
CloudFormation uses template files to provision and manage a stack of resources for repeatable deployments, enabling a load-based auto scaling architecture with easily deployable templates.
Elastic Beanstalk4:51
Explore Elastic Beanstalk, a platform as a service that deploys and scales applications with auto scaling, manages the stack, and lets you deploy a web server environment using Python platform.
OpsWorks8:25
Explore how AWS OpsWorks uses stacks, layers, leaders, and instances to deploy apps, then create a stack, add a layer, and deploy a web app from a GitHub repository.
Summary0:58
Automation Quiz

Requirements

A computer or a laptop with a decent internet connectivity, which is a very basic requirement
AWS Free Tier account to get your feet wet and perform lab exercises.
Domain name (optional, but recommended)

Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the hottest trends in the field of technology nowadays. It provides individuals and organizations with innovative tools and techniques to deploy or migrate their entire infrastructure on to the AWS platform. Therefore, it is quite essential that any AWS aspirant would need to learn all those features and services, that would give him/her enough knowledge and confidence to start his/her career in this very domain.

Overall, after completing this course you will get enough knowledge and skills to perform an effective administration of an AWS environment.

Who this course is for:

No pre-knowledge is required - enthusiasm is all you need!
Individuals interested in learning how to get started with using AWS
SysOps administrators, Solution Architects and developers interested in using AWS services

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Course content

Identity & Access Management (IAM)10 lectures • 3hr 33min

Simple Storage Service (S3)7 lectures • 2hr 47min

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)20 lectures • 7hr 3min

Route 5312 lectures • 3hr 8min

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)18 lectures • 5hr 59min

Automation5 lectures • 24min

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