1.1 What is Cloud Computing

1.2 Cloud Service & Deployment Models

1.3 How AWS is the leader in the cloud domain

1.4 Various cloud computing products offered by AWS

1.5 Introduction to AWS S3, EC2, VPC, EBS, ELB, AMI

1.6 AWS architecture and the AWS Management Console, virtualization in AWS (Xen hypervisor

1.7 What is auto-scalin

1.8 AWS EC2 best practices and cost involved.

Hands-on Exercise

• Setting up of AWS account, how to launch an EC2 instance, the process of hosting a website, and launching a Linux Virtual Machine using an AWS EC2 instance.

2.1 Introduction to EC2

2.2 Regions & Availability Zones(AZs)

2.3 Pre-EC2, EC2 instance types

2.4 Comparing Public IP and Elastic IP

2.5 Demonstrating how to launch an AWS EC2 instance

2.6 Introduction to AMIs, Creating and Copying an AMI

2.7 Introduction to EBS

2.8 EBS volume types

2.9 EBS Snapshots

2.10 Introduction to EFS

2.11 Instance tenancy- Reserved and Spot instances

2.12 Pricing and Design Patterns.

Hands-on Exercise –

• 1. Launching an EC2 instance
• 2. Creating an AMI of the launched instance
• 3. Copying the AMI to another region
• 4. Creating an EBS volume
• 5. Attaching the EBS volume with an instance
• 6. Taking backup of an EBS volume
• 7. Creating an EFS volume and mounting the EFS volume to two instances.

3.1 Introduction to Elastic Load Balancer

3.2 Types of ELB – Classic, Network, and Application

3.3 Load balancer architecture

3.4 Cross-zone load balancing

3.5 Introduction to Auto Scaling, vertical and horizontal scaling, the lifecycle of Auto Scaling

3.6 Components of Auto Scaling, scaling options and policy, instance termination

3.7 Using load balancer with Auto Scaling

3.8 Pre-Route 53 – how DNS works

3.9 Routing policy, Route 53 terminologies, Pricing.

Hands-on Exercise

• 1. Creating a Classic ELB
• 2. Creating an Application ELB
• 3. Creating an auto-scaling group
• 4. Configuring an auto-scaling group
• 5. Integrating ELB with Auto Scaling
• 6. Redirect traffic from domain name to ELB using Route 53.

4.1 What is Amazon VPC

4.2 VPC as a networking layer for EC2

4.3 IP address and CIDR notations

4.4 Components of VPC – network interfaces, route tables, internet gateway, NAT

4.5 Security in VPC – security groups and NACL, types of VPC, what is a subnet, VPC peering with scenarios, VPC endpoints, VPC pricing, and design patterns.

Hands-on Exercise

• 1. Creating a VPC and subnets
• 2. Creating a 3 Tier architecture with security groups
• 3. NACL, Internet gateway, and NAT gateway
• 4. Creating a complete VPC architecture

5.1 Introduction to AWS storage

5.2 Pre-S3 – online cloud storage

5.3 API, S3 consistency models

5.4 Storage hierarchy, buckets in S3

5.5 Objects in S3, metadata and storage classes, object versioning, object lifecycle management, cross-region replication, data encryption, connecting using VPC endpoint, S3 pricing.

Hands-on Exercise –

• 1. Creating an S3 bucket
• 2. Uploading objects to the S3 bucket
• 3. Enabling object versioning in the S3 bucket
• 4. Setting up lifecycle management for only a few objects
• 5. Setting up lifecycle management for all objects with the same tag
• 6. Static website hosting using S3.

6.1 What is a database, types of databases, databases on AWS

6.2 Introduction to Amazon RDS

6.3 Multi-AZ deployments, features of RDS

6.4 Read replicas in RDS, reserved DB instances

6.5 RDS pricing and design patterns

6.6 Introduction to Amazon Aurora, benefits of Aurora, Aurora pricing, and design patterns

6.7 Introduction to DynamoDB, components of DynamoDB, DynamoDB pricing, and design patterns

6.8 What is Amazon Redshift, and what are the advantages of Redshift

6.9 What is ElastiCache, and why ElastiCache.

Hands-on Exercise –

• 1. Launching a MySQL RDS instance
• 2. Modifying an RDS instance
• 3. Connecting to the DB instance from your machine
• 4. Creating a multi-az deployment
• 5. Create an Aurora DB cluster
• 6. Creating an Aurora replica
• 7. Creating a DynamoDB table.

7.1 Introduction to CloudFormation

7.2 CloudFormation components

7.3 CloudFormation templates

7.4 The concept of Infrastructure-as-a-code

7.5 Functions and pseudo parameters

7.6 Introduction to Simple Notification Service, how does SNS work

7.7 Introduction to Simple Email Service, how does SES work

7.8 Introduction to Simple Queue Service, how does SQS work.

Hands-on Exercise –

• 1. Creating a CloudFormation stack
• 2. Launching a t2.micro
• 3. EC2 instance using CloudFormation
• 4. Using CloudFormation to automate an architectural deployment
• 5. Creating an SNS topic, creating a subscription within the topic
• 6. Setting up SES and sending a mail
• 7. Creating an SQS queue and sending a sample message.

8.1 Pre-IAM, why access management

8.2 Amazon Resource Name (ARN), IAM features

8.3 Multi-factor authentication (MFA) in IAM, JSON

8.4 IAM policies, IAM permissions, IAM roles, identity federation, pricing

8.5 Introduction to CloudWatch, metrics and namespaces, CloudWatch architecture, dashboards in CW, CloudWatch alarms, CloudWatch logs, pricing, and design patterns

8.6 Introduction to CloudTrail, tracking API usage.

Hands-on Exercise

• 1. Creating IAM users and a group
• 2. Creating an IAM policy and attaching it to the group
• 3. Creating an IAM role
• 4. Setup MFA for a user
• 5. Creating a CloudWatch dashboard and adding metrics
• 6. Create a CloudWatch alarm that triggers according to CPU Utilization of an EC2 instance
• 7. Creating a billing alarm
• 8. Creating a log group
• 9. Creating a trail.

9.1 What is AWS Lambda

9.2 How Lambda is different from EC2

9.3 Benefits and limitations of Lambda

9.4 How does Lambda work

9.5 Use cases of Lambda, Lambda concepts

9.6 Integrating S3 with Lambda

9.7 What is Elastic Beanstalk, how does Beanstalk work, Beanstalk concepts, Beanstalk pricing

9.8 What is configuration management

9.9 What is AWS OpsWorks, AWS OpsWorks benefits

9.10 CloudFormation vs OpsWorks, services in OpsWorks, AWS OpsWorks Stacks, OpsWorks pricing.

Hands-on Exercise –

• 1. Creating a Lambda function
• 2. Setting up Lambda triggers and destinations
• 3. Creating an Elastic Beanstalk application
• 4. Uploading a new version of the application to Beanstalk
• 5. Creating a stack in OpsWorks
• 6. Launching the instance using OpsWorks and automatically installing the application.

10.1 What is Cloud migration

10.2 Why migration is important

10.3 Migration process in AWS, the 6 R’s migration strategy

10.4 Virtual machine migration, migrating a local VM onto the AWS cloud

10.5 Migrating databases using Database Migration Service (DMS)

10.6 Migrating a local database to RDS

10.7 Migrating an on-premises database server to RDS using DMS, and other migration services.

Self-Paced

11.1 Important guidelines for creating a well-architected AWS framework that is resilient and performant

11.2 Designing of fault-tolerant and high-availability architecture

11.3 Resilient storage

11.4 Decoupling mechanism

11.5 Multi-tier architecture solution

11.6 Disaster recovery solution

11.7 Scalable and elastic solutions.

12.1 What is DevOps

12.2 Introduction to AWS DevOps

12.3 AWS Developer tools – CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline, integrating GitHub with CodePipeline

12.4 Creating a DevOps lifecycle using AWS DevOps tools.

13.1 What is FSx

13.2 Types of FSx and FSx for Windows server

13.3 How does FSx for Windows File Server work, FSx for Lustre

13.4 Use cases of FSx

13.5 Automatic failover process

13.6 Supported clients and access methods

13.7 What is a Global Accelerator, How Global Accelerator works, Listeners and Endpoints

13.8 What are AWS Organizations, Features of AWS Organizations, Managing multiple accounts

13.9 What are ENIs, ENAs, and EFAs, Working with network interfaces

13.10 Enhanced Networking with ENA, EFA with MPI, Monitoring an EFA

Hands-on Exercise:

• 1. Creating a shared FSx file system between two windows instances
• 2. Accessing one instance with multiple Elastic IPS using ENI
• 3. Using Global Accelerator to map instances from 2 regions into one domain name
• 4. Enabling Enhanced Networking on an Ubuntu instance

14.1 Guidance for clearing the exam, most probable interview questions, and other helpful tips for clearing the exam and interview.