
Discover how cloud computing cuts capital expenses with usage-based pricing, delivers on-demand capacity, and enables automated, isolated dev, test, staging, and production environments that let business drive IT.
Create an AWS account, complete phone verification, and secure the root account by setting a strong password, then establish an IAM admin user for day-to-day administration.
Explore CloudFormation and Elastic Beanstalk as AWS deployment and management services, describing stacks and templates to automate scalable, repeatable app deployments from development to production environments.
Explore AWS analytics and database services, including RDS, DynamoDB, and EMR, and learn how managed engines, snapshots, multi-AZ, and scalable data pipelines enable fast, reliable data processing.
Design a four-subnet VPC across two availability zones for a WordPress deployment, separating web and data layers with public and private subnets; configure internet gateway, routing, and a NAT instance.
Configure an elastic load balancer in front of a WordPress deployment, using public subnets and health checks to route traffic, enable cross zone failover, and manage security groups.
Learn how to configure Route 53 for dns by creating a public hosted zone, registering a domain, and mapping it to an elastic load balancer alias for a WordPress deployment.
Discover how to back up WordPress data to AWS S3 by creating an S3 bucket, configuring IAM permissions, exporting the WordPress database, and uploading the export to S3.
In this Introduction to Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services training course, expert author Mark Nunnikhoven will teach you about AWS and how to deploy a web application in AWS. This course is designed for the absolute beginner, meaning no experience with Amazon Web Services is required.You will start by learning about AWS specific concepts, then jump into deploying WordPress on AWS. From there, Mark will teach you how to create a strong foundation, including configuring IAM for deployment and setting up CloudTrail. This video tutorial also covers deploying a secure networking configuration, deploying a server, and deploying a relational database. Finally, you will learn how to implement a backup strategy, such as verifying RDS backups, creating an S3 backup, and optimizing S3 costs with Amazon Glacier. Once you have completed this computer based training course, you will be fully capable of building your own web applications in AWS. Working files are included, allowing you to follow along with the author throughout the lessons.