My First Step With AWS (60 minutes crash course)

Learn how CloudWatch collects performance metrics across Amazon resources, triggers actions at thresholds, and enables auto scaling and alerting for peak and off-peak traffic.

Explore how CloudWatch integrates with over 70 Amazon services to monitor applications, optimize costs, and trigger actions via user-defined alerts across compute, storage and content delivery, and databases and analytics.

Explore how CloudWatch gathers built-in and custom metrics, install and configure the CloudWatch agent for RAM and disk metrics on EC2, and compare default five-minute monitoring with detailed one-minute monitoring.

Explore AWS identity and access management (IAM) to manage users, groups, policies and roles, create development and production profiles, assign shared and distinct privileges, and control service access.

Master AWS users and groups best practices: stop using the root account, create an admin and billing user, enable MFA with apps like Google Authenticator, and grant privileges by groups.

Learn to manage roles and policies by attaching policies to users or groups, apply the least privilege, and explore AWS managed policies and budget alarms.

Explore EC2 as infrastructure as a service, including the 12-month free tier for t2 micro, and how VPCs, subnets, and APIs with JSON enable full-stack architectures.

Explore compute instance types within the AWS free tier, focusing on general purpose options like t2 micro and t2 nano, and note prices vary with supply and demand.

Learn how the elastic load balancer distributes traffic across a fleet of EC2 instances, handles failures, and exposes HTTPS endpoints, while integrating with Auto Scaling groups and other AWS services.

Learn how auto scaling groups manage EC2 fleets by automatically spawning and terminating instances based on CloudWatch thresholds, integrating with Elastic Load Balancing to handle peak traffic and trim capacity.

Discover elastic block storage (EBS) for EC2 instances, including gp2, io1, st1, and sc1 types, with IOPs per GB and recommended workloads.

Explore how Amazon rds provides a managed relational database service with engines such as postgres, mysql, mariadb, sql server, oracle, and aurora, and how microservices favor one database per service.

Security groups act as firewalls with inbound and outbound rules that grant or deny access to IP ranges, following AWS best practices and the least privileges possible.

Explore snapshots and automated backups for aws, comparing ec2 workloads with rds managed services. Emphasize a robust disaster recovery plan for businesses operating 24/7.

Explore VPC and private subnet concepts to protect a 24/7 AWS deployment by isolating networks, restricting traffic to specific IPs, and securely configuring database endpoints for RDS.

Discover how DynamoDB, a managed NoSQL database, powers serverless apps with tables and partition keys; includes json, html, xml formats, acid transactions, three-region replication, secondary indexes, and Cognito access control.

Explore DynamoDB pricing options—on-demand and provisioned throughput with read and write capacity units. Learn how Dax boosts reads without increasing write performance.

Explore serverless architecture and Amazon's serverless services, from AWS Lambda and API gateway to DynamoDB and S3, and learn pay-per-use billing based on requests and gigabyte seconds.

Discover how AWS Lambda runs code without servers, supporting file and stream processing, web and mobile backends, with diverse runtimes and seamless integrations like S3, API Gateway, and DynamoDB.

Explore Amazon S3, a scalable object storage service with data availability, security, and performance for use cases like data lakes, websites, backups, and IoT, using buckets and CloudFront for hosting.

Celebrate completing the course and stay tuned for updates, rate and comment, and reach out with questions in the Q&A to build a strong foundation for your future projects.