Rocking AWS for Beginners (Hands On)

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Cloud Learning Path

Lecture 2: Course Slides

Chapter 2: How It Started – Data Center

Lecture 1: Frontend vs Backend and Role of AWS

Lecture 2: How it Started – On Premises Data Center

Lecture 3: Disadvantages of On Premises Applications

Chapter 3: Cloud Computing Introduction

Lecture 1: Cloud Computing – What and Why?

Lecture 2: Benefits of Cloud Computing

Lecture 3: Quick Demo of Benefits

Lecture 4: Deployment Models for Cloud Computing

Lecture 5: Is AWS Secure?

Lecture 6: Is AWS Expensive?

Lecture 7: Who Fixes if Cloud Breaks – AWS Support Plans

Lecture 8: Sign up for an AWS Account

Lecture 9: AWS Free Tier and Setting Budgets

Chapter 4: Migrating Your Organization to AWS

Lecture 1: Three Phase Migration Process

Lecture 2: Cloud Migration Strategies – 7Rs

Lecture 3: How to Choose a Migration Strategy

Lecture 4: Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE)

Lecture 5: Notable AWS Migration Tools

Chapter 5: AWS Compute and Scaling

Lecture 1: Amazon EC2 – What and Why?

Lecture 2: Server, VM, Hypervisor

Lecture 3: Types of Amazon EC2

Lecture 4: Important Demo – Our Very First EC2

Lecture 5: Important – Scaling Amazon EC2s – Horizontal Vs Vertical

Lecture 6: IP Address vs URL

Lecture 7: Important – Intro to Elastic Load Balancer

Lecture 8: Horizontal Vs Vertical Scaling Deep Dive

Lecture 9: Amazon EC2 Challenges

Lecture 10: AWS Lambda – What and Why

Lecture 11: Demo – AWS Lambda

Lecture 12: AWS Lambda – Pros and Cons

Lecture 13: Containers – Gorilla in the Room

Lecture 14: Container Orchestrator – What and Why

Lecture 15: Intro to Kubernetes

Lecture 16: Amazon EKS and ECS and Fargate – What and Why

Lecture 17: Optional – Kubernetes Roadmap for Freshers

Lecture 18: Infra as Code – What and Why

Lecture 19: AWS Infra as Code – CloudFormation

Lecture 20: Important – IaaS, PaaS, SaaS

Lecture 21: Elastic Beanstalk – What and Why

Lecture 22: Demo – Elastic Beanstalk

Lecture 23: AWS Marketplace

Lecture 24: Monolith vs Microservice

Chapter 6: AWS Networking

Lecture 1: Region and Availability Zones

Lecture 2: Edge Location and CloudFront – Serving your Favorite Movie

Lecture 3: Amazon VPC – Subnet, Route Table, NACL, Security Group, Public & Private Subnet

Lecture 4: VPC Continued – NAT Gateway and Private Traffic Flow

Lecture 5: VPC Continued – Advantages of VPC

Lecture 6: VPC Demo

Lecture 7: High Availability App – What does it mean?

Lecture 8: Important – OSI Layer

Lecture 9: Important – What happens when you enter a URL!

Lecture 10: Disaster Recovery (DR)

Chapter 7: AWS Storage and Databases

Lecture 1: Storage – What, Why, Different Types

Lecture 2: Object Storage vs Block Storage vs HDFS vs File System (S3, EBS, EFS)

Lecture 3: Demo – S3 using Infra as Code

Lecture 4: Database Basics – Table, Query

Lecture 5: On Premises Database Challenges

Lecture 6: SQL vs NoSQL Databases (Aurora/RDS vs DynamoDB)

Lecture 7: AWS SQL Databases

Lecture 8: AWS NoSQL Database – DynamoDB

Chapter 8: AWS Observability and Security

Lecture 1: Observability – Logs, Metrics, Traces

Lecture 2: AWS Observability Service – Amazon CloudWatch

Lecture 3: Demo – Amazon CloudWatch

Lecture 4: Important – AWS Shared Responsibility Model

Lecture 5: AWS IAM User, Roles, and Groups

Chapter 9: Watch Before Doing Hands-On Projects

Lecture 1: Stand Out from the Crowd!

Lecture 2: Create your GitHub

Chapter 10: Project 1 – Use CloudFront and Route53 for Your Static Website

Lecture 1: Project Intro

Lecture 2: Architecture of the Static Website Resume Project

Lecture 3: Project Assets

Lecture 4: Demo – Resume from S3

Lecture 5: Demo – Resume from CloudFront

Lecture 6: Optional Demo – Buy a Route 53 Domain

Lecture 7: Demo – Resume from Custom URL

Chapter 11: Project 2 – Resume from Kubernetes!!

Lecture 1: Project Intro

Lecture 2: Container End to End Flow

Lecture 3: Project Assets

Lecture 4: Create EKS Cluster

Lecture 5: Easy Method – Run Resume from Container

Lecture 6: Real World Method – Create Resume Container, Test locally, Save in Repository

Lecture 7: Real World Method – Deploy Resume Container from DockerHub to Amazon EKS

Chapter 12: Project 3 – Accessing EC2 with Load Balancer with Custom URL

Lecture 1: EC2 ALB SSL Design Flow

Lecture 2: Demo – ALB with EC2 with HTTPS Custom URL

Chapter 13: Project 4 – WordPress Web App with HA and Scalability

Lecture 1: Project Intro

Lecture 2: WordPress System Design – Two Different Ways

Lecture 3: WordPress Using CloudFormation Walkthrough