
Explore the basic architecture of a computer, including the input unit, control unit, arithmetic logic unit, output unit, and storage units, and how data moves through CPU and memory.
Understand traditional IT with physical data centers, hosting data services and running applications, and the CapEx and OpEx costs and the drawbacks of owning hardware and software.
Explore cloud computing essentials, including on-demand, pay-as-you-go resources, scalable and globally deployable services, and reduced capital and operational expenditures on AWS.
Compare the top cloud providers with a focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, and learn how to create an AWS account and explore its services.
Explore the three cloud service models: infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and software as a service. Understand how responsibilities shift from on-premise infrastructure to cloud providers.
Compare public, private, and hybrid cloud deployment models to understand cost, scalability, and control trade-offs. Examine advantages and disadvantages with examples such as Amazon EC2 and Google App Engine.
Explore stateful vs stateless services, horizontal and vertical scaling, and load balancing, then compare fault tolerance, loose coupling, monolithic versus microservices, and event driven architecture.
Compare monolithic and microservices architectures, showing how monolith packs the user interface and data in one app, then scales poorly, while microservices use independent services with a gateway for updates.
Event driven architecture uses events to trigger communication between decoupled services in microservices, with an event router automatically filtering and pushing events to consumers, enabling scalability and agility.
Learn AWS basics like global infrastructure, pricing, IAM setup, free tier account, and public and private services; configure a VPC with security groups and ACLs, and install command line interface.
Learn AWS pricing basics, including pay-as-you-go and the 12-month free tier, with data transfer in free and out paid, plus cost tools like AWS Cost Explorer and CloudWatch.
Set up a billing alarm on AWS billing dashboard, configure preferences to email alerts when the bill hits 0.01 USD, and create a Billing Alert topic to confirm via email.
Launch an ec2 instance, paste user data to configure a web server, and access it via the instance's public IPv4 address.
Create an application load balancer, attach two instances to a target group, and verify traffic distribution via the DNS name to ensure healthy instances.
Explore how EBS snapshots back up a single volume and how AMIs back up an entire EC2 instance, including creating and deleting snapshots and volumes across availability zones and regions.
Configure an elastic file system (EFS) with EC2 instances, set up security groups for NFS access, and use SSH to mount and verify files.
Learn how to create an Amazon S3 bucket, enable public access, and secure objects with a bucket policy, including using the policy generator and testing public URLs.
Configure credentials and region in the AWS CLI, then list buckets and objects, create new buckets, and remove buckets using AWS S3 commands.
Explore databases on AWS with an Amazon RDS overview, learn to create a multi-AZ RDS read replica, and install WordPress on EC2 using RDS and DynamoDB.
Explore Amazon RDS as a managed relational database service by AWS, supporting MySQL, Aurora, SQL Server, and Oracle, and offering cost-effective, easy setup for relational databases.
Create a MySQL Amazon RDS database in the AWS management console using the free tier, configure security and credentials, then delete the database.
Enable multi-az replication on AWS RDS to increase availability with automatic failover to a standby in another availability zone. Create read replicas to scale reads and support disaster recovery.
Install WordPress on EC2 with an RDS database by creating security groups, launching an EC2 instance, installing PHP and MySQL, configuring the WordPress database connection, and completing the setup.
Learn to provision infrastructure with AWS CloudFormation and deploy applications using Elastic Beanstalk. Explore core cloud concepts and practical deployment workflows for beginners.
Cloud formation automates resource setup with template files, delivering infrastructure as a service. Tags group EC2 and S3 under a single template, formatted using either vi or json.
Set up and deploy infrastructure with aws cloudformation by creating stacks from templates, using the lamp stack to launch an ec2 instance, and managing parameters before deleting stacks.
Explore CodePipeline workflows that integrate with Amazon S3 and GitHub, automating compiling, building, testing, and deploying code with CodeDeploy, CodeBuild, CodeCommit, and CodeArtifact.
This Introduction to Cloud Computing on Amazon AWS course takes you from the AWS basics to being a competent AWS cloud practitioner. You'll learn general cloud computing concepts and AWS from fundamentals right through to advanced concepts. You'll also build hands-on skills using many of the core Amazon Web Services (AWS) services. Ideal for beginners - absolutely no cloud computing experience is required!
We use a highly visual and effective method of teaching cloud computing and AWS concepts using diagrams and animations (no bullet-point slides!). There are lots of hands-on exercises using an Amazon Web Services (AWS) free tier account to give you practical experience.
If you're interested in moving into a high-paying career working with cloud computing services - this is the best way to get started. You'll build knowledge from beginner level to advanced concepts, with plenty of opportunities to practice what you're learning.
Here's a snapshot of some of the awesome skills you'll learn using this course:
Learn fundamental concepts of cloud computing and including storage, database, networking, virtualization, containers, and cloud architecture
Create an AWS Free Tier account and launch your first virtual servers (Amazon EC2 instances) on the AWS Cloud
Configure elasticity, high availability and fault tolerance using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling and Amazon Elastic Load Balancing
Create and configure storage services and upload files and objects using Amazon EBS, Amazon EFS and Amazon S3
Launch a relational database on Amazon RDS and a NoSQL database using Amazon DynamoDB
Automatically deploy infrastructure using code through AWS CloudFormation
Create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Learn how to use DevOps tools on AWS to automate a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline
Implement serverless computing and Docker containers on AWS using AWS Lambda and Amazon ECS
Create serverless event-driven architectures on Lambda
Create loosely coupled services with Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS
This is a great way to get started with cloud computing and also a great starting point for those planning to earn their AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or AWS Certified Solutions Architect certifications (you will need additional courses aimed at those AWS certifications).
Watch the intro video to learn how this course will help you gain a solid understanding of Cloud Computing on AWS.
In this ultimate guide to cloud computing on AWS the topics you'll learn include:
Section1: The building blocks of cloud computing
1. Introduction
2. Basic Architect of a computer
3. Server Vs Desktop
4. Client Server Computing
5. HDDs VS SSDs
6. Storage
7. IP Addressing
8. Networking
9. Databases
10. Virtualization
11. API
Section2: Introduction to Cloud Computing
1. Introduction
2. Traditional IT
3. Cloud Computing
4. Launching Cloud Services
5. Cloud Computing service models
6. Cloud Computing Deployment Models
Section3: Demystifying Cloud Architecture
1. Introduction
2. Stateful VS Stateless Services
3. Horizontal VS Vertical Scaling
4. Load Balancing
5. Fault Tolerance
6. Loose Coupling
7. Monolithic and Microservices architecture
8. Event-driven Architecture
Section4: AWS Basics
1. Introduction
2. AWS Overview
3. AWS Global Infrastructure
4. AWS Pricing
5. Setup your AWS Free Tier Account
6. Create a Billing Alarm
7. IAM Overview
8. Create IAM user and group
9. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
10. Security groups and Network ACLs
11. Install the AWS Command Line Interface
12. CLI part-2
Section5: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2))
1. Introduction
2. Amazon EC2 overview
3. Launching an Amazon EC2 Instance
4. Connecting to Amazon EC2 instances
5. Create a Website using User Data
6. Using IAM Role with EC2
7. Add load balancing with Amazon ELB
8. Scale Elastically with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Section6: AWS Storage services
1. Introduction
2. AWS Storage Service Overview
3. Create and Attach EBS Volume
4. Instance Store Volumes
5. EBS Snapshots and AMI
6. Create Amazon EFS Filesystem
7. Amazon S3 Create Bucket and Make Public
8. Working with S3 Objects from the AWS CLI
Section7: AWS Databases
1. Introduction
2. Amazon RDS Overview
3. Create Amazon RDS
4. RDS Multi-AZ and Read Replica
5. Install WordPress on EC2 with RDS Database
6. Amazon DynamoDBB
Section8: Automation on AWS
1. Introduction
2. Cloud Formation
3. How to deploy infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation
4. Elastic Beanstalk
5. Deploy an application using AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Section9: DevOps on AWS
1. Introduction
2. Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
3. CodePipeline
4. Create AWS CodeStar Project
Section10 : DNS Service & Content Delivery
1. Introduction
2. Amazon Route 53 Overview and Routing Policies
3. Register domain using Route 53
4. Create Amazon CloudFront distribution with S3 static website
5. SSL/TLS
Section11: Containers & Serverless Computing
1. Introduction
2. Docker Containers
3. ECS ECR EKS & Fargate
4. Lab on ECS
5. Serverless with AWS Lambda
Section12 : Application Integration & Loose Coupling
1. Introduction
2. Amazon SNS
3. Amazon SQS
4. Lab on Amazon SNS and SQS
5. AWS Lambda to Amazon SQS Event Source Mapping
Section13: How to get Certified on AWS
1. How to get certified on AWS