Amazon Web Services (AWS) Fundamentals for System Administrators

Pluralsight

Course Summary

Learn the essential skillset required to build a cost-effective, scalable, and reliable infrastructure on the AWS platform.

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Course Description

This course introduces Amazon AWS cloud capabilities to administrators, engineers, and architects looking to design and deploy on the AWS cloud. It covers core AWS skills and concepts needed to begin working with AWS and to achieve AWS certification.

Course Description

This course introduces Amazon AWS cloud capabilities to administrators, engineers, and architects looking to design and deploy on the AWS cloud. It covers core AWS skills and concepts needed to begin working with AWS and to achieve AWS certification.

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Course Syllabus

Getting Started
- 46m 9s

—Course Introduction 0m 56s
—The Course at a Glance 7m 25s
—AWS Certification Tracks 7m 59s
—What Is Cloud Computing? 14m 41s
—Key Dates in the History of Cloud Computing 13m 24s
—Summary 1m 41s

Introduction to AWS
- 30m 37s

—AWS History 8m 57s
—On-premises Components 11m 43s
—Do-it-yourself vs. AWS 8m 4s
—Summary 1m 52s

Understanding AWS Global Infrastructure
- 28m 45s

—What Is Elastic Computing? 13m 13s
—Regions and Availability Zones 14m 14s
—Summary 1m 17s

Understanding AWS Security Measures
- 36m 38s

—The Physical Access 11m 23s
—Shared Security Responsibility Model 15m 56s
—Identity and Access Management (IAM) 6m 57s
—Summary 2m 22s

The AWS Free Tier
- 42m 55s

—The AWS Free Tier 11m 35s
—How to Sign Up 6m 38s
—Provision Free Tier Resources 16m 1s
—Interacting with an EC2 Instance 6m 1s
—Summary 2m 39s

Working with AWS Storage: Ephemeral and S3
- 33m 0s

—Understanding Ephemeral Storage 4m 55s
—Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) 11m 33s
—Configuring S3 14m 16s
—Summary 2m 15s

Working with AWS Storage: EBS and Glacier
- 33m 3s

—Understanding Elastic Block Storage - EBS 3m 48s
—Configuring EBS from the AWS Management Console 15m 31s
—Understanding Glacier 11m 20s
—Summary 2m 23s

AWS Compute Options
- 27m 58s

—Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) 7m 55s
—EC2 Compute Unit (ECU) 7m 33s
—EC2 Instance Types 9m 8s
—Summary 3m 21s

Understanding EC2 Pricing
- 31m 24s

—On-demand Instances 5m 7s
—Reserved Instances (RI) 10m 26s
—Reserved Instances (RI) Scenarios 4m 49s
—Spot Instances 8m 23s
—Summary 2m 36s

Understanding AWS Networking, CloudWatch, and Auto Scaling
- 48m 52s

—Module Introduction 0m 44s
—What Is Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)? 7m 54s
—VPC Network Security 6m 2s
—Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) 7m 38s
—VPC Walkthrough 4m 26s
—Amazon Route 53 6m 22s
—AWS CloudWatch 6m 36s
—Auto Scaling 6m 5s
—Module Summary 3m 2s

Amazon Database Options, APIs, and Lambda
- 35m 52s

—Module Introduction 0m 34s
—Amazon RDS Options 2m 43s
—Non-RDS Options 3m 58s
—Database Creation 7m 55s
—Amazon APIs 4m 0s
—Amazon Lambda 14m 17s
—Module Summary 2m 24s

Amazon Simple Services
- 23m 48s

—Module Introduction 1m 24s
—Simple Email Service (SES) 5m 32s
—Simple Queue Service (SQS) 4m 41s
—Simple Notification Service (SNS) 2m 51s
—Configuring SNS 5m 35s
—Module Summary 3m 42s

CloudFront, CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, and CloudTrail
- 20m 46s

—Module Introduction 0m 54s
—CloudFront 5m 37s
—CloudFormation 7m 20s
—Elastic Beanstalk 3m 0s
—CloudTrail 1m 28s
—Module Summary 2m 26s

Course Fee:

USD 29

Course Type:	Self-Study
Course Status:	Active
Workload:	1 - 4 hours / week

This course is listed under Cloud Computing , Development & Implementations , Enterprise Applications , Data & Information Management , IT Strategy & Management , Networks & IT Infrastructure , IT Security & Architecture and IT Compliance & Audit Community