AWS Cloud Foundation

PROGRAM NAME

AWS Cloud Foundation

DURATION OF PROGRAM

40 HOURS

  • Security
  • Reliability
  • High Availability
  • Elasticity
  • Agility
  • Pay-as-you go pricing
  • Scalability
  • Global Reach
  • Economy of scale

  • Shifting technical resources to revenue-generating activities as opposed to managing infrastructure

  • operational expenses (OpEx)
  • capital expenses (CapEx)
  • labour costs associated with on-premises operations
  • impact of software licensing costs when moving to the cloud

  • Right-sized infrastructure
  • Benefits of automation
  • Reduce compliance scope (for example, reporting)
  • Managed services (for example, RDS, ECS, EKS, DynamoDB)

  • Design for failure
  • Decouple components versus monolithic architecture
  • Implement elasticity in the cloud versus on-premises
  • Think parallel

  • Elements of the Shared Responsibility Model
  • Customer’s responsibly on AWS
  • AWS responsibilities

  • AWS Cloud security and compliance concepts
  • Encryption on AWS for a given service
  • Services that will aid in auditing and reporting
  • Concept of least privileged access

  • Purpose of User and Identity Management

  • Different network security capabilities
  • Documentation
  • Component of aws trusted advisor

  • Different ways of provisioning and operating in the AWS cloud
  • Different types of cloud deployment models
  • Connectivity options

  • Relationships among Regions, Availability Zones and Edge Locations
  • Multiple Availability Zones
  • Multiple AWS Regions

  • Categories of services on AWS (compute, storage, network, database)
  • AWS compute services
  • AWS storage services
  • AWS networking services
  • AWS database services

  • Best practices, whitepapers, AWS Knowledge Center, forums, blogs
  • Various levels and scope of AWS support
  • Independent Software Vendors and System Integrators
  • AWS Trusted Advisor

  • Various pricing models for AWS
  • On-Demand Instance pricing
  • Reserved-Instance pricing
  • Spot Instance pricing

  • Consolidated billing
  • Allocating costs

  • Billing support and information
  • Pricing information on aws services
  • Cost allocation tags