The Good Parts of AWS: Cutting Through the Clutter

Become an AWS pro with insights from a seasoned Amazon engineer. Get hands-on with essential AWS services like DynamoDB, S3, and EC2. No setup, no cleanup, no hassle.

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Become an AWS pro with insights from a seasoned Amazon engineer. Get hands-on with essential AWS services like DynamoDB, S3, and EC2. No setup, no cleanup, no hassle.

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This course includes

12 Playgrounds

15 Quizzes

This course includes

12 Playgrounds

15 Quizzes

Course Overview

This is not your typical AWS reference course. You won’t find most of the knowledge that's shared here in the AWS docs. The goal here is to help you realize which AWS features you’d be foolish not to use — features that have passed the test of time by being at the backbone of most things on the Internet. In this course, you'll learn a technique used to help make reliable technical choices without getting paralyzed in the face of so many options. You’ll start by going through the most fundamental services A...Show More

Course Content

Before Getting Started

Get familiar with indispensable AWS features and make effective technical choices.

What is this course about?

The Default Heuristic

Part 1: The Good Parts

Walk through essential AWS tools for databases, storage, compute, networking, and integration.

Database: DynamoDB Storage: S3 Compute: EC2 Compute: EC2 Auto Scaling Compute: Lambda Networking & Content Delivery: ELB Networking & Content Delivery: Route 53 Management & Governance: CloudFormation Application Integration: SQS Media Service: Kinesis

Quiz - Basic AWS Services

Part 2: The Bootstrap Guide

Work your way through setting up and scaling applications on AWS using automation.

Starting from Scratch: Basic Web Application Starting from Scratch: Manual AWS Infrastructure Infrastructure as Code: Create CloudFormation Stack Infrastructure as Code: Deploy CloudFormation Stack Automatic Deployments: CodeBuild Automatic Deployments: Install CodeDeploy Agent on EC2 Automatic Deployments: Create a CodePipeline Load Balancing: Add a second EC2 Instance Load Balancing: Add an Application Load Balancer Scaling: Add an Auto Scaling Group Scaling: Remove Instances Production: Add Stack Name to our Application Production: Create Staging Stack Production: Create Production Stack Custom Domains: Register Domain with Route 53 Custom Domains: Map our Domain to Load Balancers HTTPS: Create a TLS Certificate HTTPS: Add an HTTPS Endpoint HTTPS: Make the Application Speak HTTPS Network Security: Set up SSM for SSH Access Network Security: Add Private Subnets with NAT Gateway Network Security: Enabling HTTPS port in Public Subnets

Host Our Application on EC2 Instance

Cloud Lab

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud Lab

Automatic Deployments: Create a CI/CD Pipeline

Cloud Lab

Load Balancing: Add an Application Load Balancer

Cloud Lab

Scaling: Add an Auto Scaling Group

Cloud Lab

Conclusion

Grasp the fundamentals of cleaning up AWS resources and explore future learning opportunities.

Wrap up!

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