
Create a practical study plan to map your path to the AWS Certified Solutions Architect exam, assess skills and time, and use a downloadable template and Seinfeld method.
Set up your AWS account and learn to access EC2 virtual machines using PuTTY on Windows, preparing you for the rest of the course.
Create an AWS account using the free tier for a year, verify identity, provide payment details, choose a basic plan, and access the management console.
Explore AWS security, identity and compliance services, such as IAM, Cognito, GuardDuty, Inspector, Macie, single sign-on, Certificate Manager, CloudHSM, Directory Service, WAF, and Artifact.
Learn how to create an S3 bucket, choose a DNS-compliant, globally unique name, set tags and permissions, and navigate bucket regions before preparing to upload and manage objects.
Explore how S3 versioning tracks changes to objects by enabling versioning and using delete markers, with MFA delete providing extra protection.
Learn how S3 object lifecycle management automates moving objects from standard to infrequent access and glacier, optimizing costs across current and previous versions, with expiration rules.
Explore advanced AWS S3 topics, including CloudFront content delivery, S3 security and encryption with access controls and bucket policies, four encryption types, object transfer acceleration, and exam tips.
Discover how CloudFront uses a global network of edge locations to deliver content from origins with low latency, caching objects with a time-to-live and enabling cache purges when needed.
Create a CloudFront distribution for an S3 bucket, enable it, test image delivery from remote locations via VPN, observe first load versus cached delivery, then disable and delete the distribution.
Connect on-premise apps to cloud storage with a gateway appliance, enabling backup, archiving, and disaster recovery; explore gateway flavors and their NFS and iSCSI interfaces to S3 Glacier and EBS.
Explore how AWS storage gateway enables on-premise stored volumes with asynchronous backups to S3 via EBS snapshots, supporting cache volumes and tape library for disaster recovery and archival to Glacier.
Explore AWS IAM identity and access management, including users, groups, roles, policies, and temporary access, with multi-factor authentication and secure access keys for API, CLI, and SDK.
Explore elastic block storage in EC2 with EBS, providing persistent, in-az replicated volumes that attach to running instances, and learn about general purpose SSD, provisioned IOPS, and HDD options.
Explore how EC2 security groups function as per-instance software firewalls with stateful inbound and outbound rules, enabling immediate traffic control between instances and from specific IPs or other security groups.
Launch an AWS Linux AMI EC2 instance with a new security group, SSH in, install Apache, create an index page, verify via HTTP, and use elastic IP for DNS stability.
Launch a Windows Server 2016 t2 micro EC2 instance, retrieve the administrator password via the key pair, and connect using remote desktop with port 3389.
Learn how elastic load balancers use health checks with index.html as the ping target to keep traffic on healthy instances, and set up application load balancer across two subnets.
Explore CloudWatch, AWS’s metrics monitoring service, and learn to use dashboards, alarms, events, and logs to monitor EC2 and other services, with standard five-minute metrics, including custom application metrics.
Learn how autoscaling groups in EC2 automatically adjust the instance pool using a launch configuration, health checks, and dynamic policies to maintain four healthy instances across two availability zones.
Explore how the EC2 container service runs Docker containers on a managed cluster, leveraging security groups, elastic load balancing, EBS volumes, IAM roles, and Docker images for fast, microservice deployments.
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