Course Overview
AWS Technical Essentials introduces you to essential AWS services and common solutions. The course covers the fundamental AWS concepts related to compute, database, storage, networking, monitoring, and security. You will start working in AWS through hands-on course experiences. The course covers the concepts necessary to increase your understanding of AWS services, so that you can make informed decisions about solutions that meet business requirements. Throughout the course, you will gain information on how to build, compare, and apply highly available, fault tolerant, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions.
Who should attend
This course is intended for:
- Individuals responsible for articulating the technical benefits of AWS services to customers
- Individuals interested in learning how to get started with AWS
- SysOps administrators
- Solutions architects
- Developers
Certifications
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have:
- IT experience
- Basic knowledge of common data center architectures and components (servers, networking, databases, applications, and so on)
- No prior cloud computing or AWS experience required
Course Objectives
In this course, you will learn to:
- Describe terminology and concepts related to AWS services
- Navigate the AWS Management Console
- Articulate key concepts of AWS security measures and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Distinguish among several AWS compute services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), and Amazon Elastic
- Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
- Understand AWS database and storage offerings, including Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
- Explore AWS networking services
- Access and configure Amazon CloudWatch monitoring features