Fundamentals of AWS Services

Explore compute services in this section, examine the options, learn about Ekta instances, and review demos, whiteboards, cost optimization, Ottos scaling the marketplace, and the cost calculator.

Explore AWS compute options from EC2 to Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, ECS, and EKS, and learn how virtualization and paying only for what you need enable scalable, serverless and managed deployments.

Explore EC2 instances, their types, AMIs, and pricing models—on-demand, reserved, and spot—and how Nitro hypervisor and use-case–driven instance types support general purpose, GPU, and storage optimized workloads.

Deploy EC2 virtual machines using the Ekta dashboard, choosing free-tier Amazon Linux images, and configuring security groups, networking, and key pairs. Manage tags, status, and monitoring with cloud watch.

Discover how EC2 spot instances tap unused capacity at discounted prices for defined durations like one hour, with Linux and Windows pricing and the spot advisor.

deploy a runtime environment on Elastic Beanstalk, a platform as a service from AWS, to host a sample or your own Python or JavaScript app, upload code, and monitor health.

Demonstrate deploying a hello world function with Lambda, a function-as-a-service that runs code without servers, scales automatically, and charges only what you consume.

Explore AWS compute options like EC2, Lambda, Lightsail, and Elastic Beanstalk, using CloudFormation templates and marketplace solutions, while planning NAT, Bastion hosts, and load balancing for deployment.

Launch and manage a Lightsail Linux instance to deploy WordPress, explore blueprints, region selection, and basic management tasks via SSH, with a simple pricing overview.

Explore cloud formation as aws infrastructure as code, using declarative templates and stacks to deploy resources in a predictable, repeatable way, including change sets and stack sets.

Auto scaling uses policies to add or remove instances based on workload thresholds monitored by CloudWatch, while load balancing distributes traffic to available instances, minimizing downtime.

Learn to use the AWS pricing calculator to estimate costs for EC2 instances and S3 storage, compare on-demand, spot, and reserved pricing, and understand region effects and data transfer.

Explore Amazon S3, the scalable object storage service, including buckets, access points, storage classes, lifecycle rules, and data transfer options to optimize cost, availability, and performance.

Demonstrates creating a unique S3 bucket, uploading files, and configuring public access. Explores storage class options such as standard, intelligent tiering, glacier, and applies lifecycle rules, access points, and logging.

Deploy an S3 Glacier archive by creating a vault, selecting a region, and configuring notifications and vault settings. Upload data to a Glacier archive and review retrieval options.

Create an S3 lifecycle rule for a bucket, apply to all objects or filtered by prefix or tag, and configure current version cleanup and complete multipart uploads.

Deploy and attach an elastic file system (EFS) to an EC2 instance by selecting the right VPC and availability zones, then configure performance, access points, and policies.

Explore AWS data services by mapping use cases for S3 as object storage and ingestion, with SAS messaging, VPC groups, and options like RDS, EC2, EBS, EFS for Linux workloads.

Explore other data services and databases, including Neptune, Redshift, QLDB (ledger distributed ledger document database), Cassandra, Storage Gateway, backups, AI and machine learning analytics, and EMR.

Explore the migration hub to discover your data center, import data, get recommendations, and track migrations from a central dashboard.

Explore the AWS snow family for physical data transfer, from snowball (50–80 TB) and snowball edge (100 TB) to snowmobile (up to 100 PB), including edge use and migration tools.

Explore connectivity options and core networking services in AWS, including virtual private cloud, elastic load balancer, security group, and cloud front, with a final whiteboard on practical connectivity.

Explore the virtual private cloud, configure subnets, gateways, and security groups, and understand VPC fundamentals, flow logs, and how to connect on‑prem networks with VPNs and transit gateways.

Learn how to create and configure security groups in AWS, define inbound and outbound rules (SSH port 22, HTTP/HTTPS), and use a bastion host with a VPC and EC2 instance.

Explore connection strategies between on-premises infrastructure and AWS, including VPCs, Direct Connect with private virtual interfaces, cross-region options, and alternatives like VPN and transit VPC.

Discover the shared security model for AWS, overview of security and identity and access management, and practical best practices with demos of Security Hub and GuardDuty to secure resources.

Survey AWS security services, from data protection and encryption to threat detection and identity management. See demos of Security Hub, GuardDuty, CloudHSM, Inspector, KMS, and Trusted Advisor.

Explore identity and access management in AWS by configuring users, groups, roles, and policies, enabling MFA, console and programmatic access, and monitoring with an access analyzer.

Enable AWS Security Hub to provide a single view of your security status, and deliver detailed findings and actionable insights by integrating with GuardDuty, Inspector, and Macie.

Master the shared responsibility model to see what you manage—data, security groups, firewall rules, configurations, and on-prem to AWS connections—while AWS handles hardware, infrastructure, and compute services.

Apply the shared security model and core best practices—patching, disable root accounts, multifactor authentication, least privilege, key rotation, auditing, trusted advisor, and relational data service security.

Explore monitoring and management with native CloudWatch, dive into CloudWatch logging, and billing management using demos of billing, Trusted Advisor, CloudWatch, and Cost Explorer.

Explore CloudWatch monitoring with dashboards, alarms, and logs to track metrics and performance. Learn to build dashboards, set up alarms, configure resource groups and notifications for cost and billing insights.

Master cloud billing management by setting budgets, alerts, and forecasts while using cost explorer to identify waste, breakdown costs by region and service, and generate reports.

Explore cost explorer features, enable cost explorer, and set budgets, savings plans, and reservations to monitor cloud costs and receive alerts when thresholds are met.

Review the course content and explore eight aws certifications and additional resources to advance learning, then close out the course and proceed to the next module.

Review cloud computing as on-demand, scalable resource pooling and summarize AWS services from EC2, EBS, S3, and RDS, plus security and monitoring tools like CloudFront and CloudWatch.

Review additional resources and certification options for AWS, including quick labs for hands-on practice, free training modules, events, and guidance from Tech Commanders and related creators.