AWS

Session 1: Introduction to AWS
AWS – 10,000 Feet Overview

The History Of AWS So Far

AWS – 10,000 Foot Overview Part 1

AWS – 10,000 Foot Overview Part 2

AWS – 10,000 Foot Overview Part 3

AWS – 10,000 Foot Overview Part 4

Session 2: Identity Access Management (IAM)

IAM 101

IAM (Lab)

Create A Billing Alarm (Lab)

IAM Summary

Session 3: AWS Object Storage and CDN - S3, Glacier and CloudFront

S3 – 101 Create an S3 Bucket (Lab)

Version Control (Lab)

Cross Region Replication

Lifecycle Management & Glacier (Lab)

CloudFront CDN Overview

Create a CloudFront CDN (Lab)

S3 – Security & Encryption

Storage Gateway

Snowball

Snowball Lab

S3 Transfer Acceleration

Create A Static Website Using S3

S3 Summary

Session 4: EC2 - The Backbone of AWS

EC2 101 – Part 1

EC2 101 – Part 2

Lets get our hands dirty! Launch an EC2 Instance – Part 1.

Lets get our hands dirty! Launch an EC2 Instance – Part 2.

How to use Putty (Windows Users Only)

Security Groups Basics

Upgrading EBS Volume Types – Lab – Part 1

Upgrading EBS Volume Types – Lab – Part 2

Creating a Windows EC2 Instance & RAID Group

Create an AMI

AMI's – EBS root volumes vs Instance Store

Load Balancers & Health Checks

Cloud Watch EC2

The AWS Command Line & EC2

Using IAM roles with EC2

S3 CLI & Regions

Using Bootstrap Scripts

EC2 Instance Meta-data

Autoscaling 101

EC2 Placement Groups – An Exam Must Know!

EFS – Concepts & Lab

Lambda – Concepts

Build A Serverless Webpage

Using Polly To Help You Pass Your Exam – A Serverless Approach – Part 1

Using Polly To Help You Pass Your Exam – A Serverless Approach – Part 2

Build An Alexa Skill

EC2 Summary

Session 5: Route53

DNS 101

Register Your Domain Name

Setup Our EC2 Instances

Simple Routing Policy Lab

Weighted Routing Policy Lab

Latency Routing Policy Lab

Failover Routing Policy Lab

Geolocation Routing Policy Lab

DNS Exam Tips

Session 6: Databases on AWS

Databases 101

Launching an RDS Instance

Backups, Multi-AZ & Read Replicas

DynamoDB

RedShift

Elasticache

Aurora

Databases Summary

Session 7: VPC

Introduction & Overview

Build your own custom VPC

Build Your Own Custom VPC Part 2

Network Address Translation (NAT)

Network Access Control Lists vs Security Groups

ELB’s & VPCs

NATs vs Bastions

VPC Flow Logs

VPC Clean Up

Summary

Session 8: Application Services

SQS

SWF

SNS

Elastic Transcoder

API Gateway

Application Services Summary

Session 9: Kinesis

Kinesis 101

Kinesis Lab

Session 10: The Real World - Creating a fault tolerant Word Press Site

Getting Setup

Setting Up EC2

Adding Resilience And Cloud Front

Setting Up Our AMI’s

Configuring Autoscaling & Load Testing

CloudFormation!

Want to be a real Solutions Architect? You need to know CloudFormation!

Session 11: Preparing for the Exam - White Paper Reviews

Overview of Amazon Web Services

Overview of Security Processes – Part 1

Overview of Security Processes – Part 2

AWS Risk & Compliance

Storage Options in the Cloud

Architecting for the AWS Cloud: Best Practices

Session 12: The Well Architected Framework

Introduction to The Well Architected Framework

Pillar One – Security

Pillar Two – Reliability

Pillar Three – Performance Efficiency

Pillar Four – Cost Optimization

Pillar Five – Operational Excellence

Summary of The Well Architected Framework