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AWS Technical Essentials

Upgrade your cloud computing skills to effectively use AWS products, services and solutions.

(AWS-DEV-ESS.AJ1) / ISBN : 978-1-64459-216-8
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About This Course

AWS Technical Essentials is a comprehensive online training course that equips you with the fundamental knowledge and skills for working with AWS cloud and related services. In this AWS cloud essentials course, you’ll learn about navigating the Management Console and interacting with AWS services using SDKs and IDE tools. Explore storage options (Amazon EBS and Amazon Glacier) and managed services (Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon RDS for database management). By the end of this AWS Technical Essentials training, you'll be skilled to build, compare, scale and create cost-effective cloud solutions.

Skills You’ll Get

  • Understanding of AWS concepts, services, and architecture
  • Navigate the AWS Management Console 
  • Interact with AWS services using SDKs and IDE tools
  • Ability to create and manage AWS storage with Amazon EBS and Amazon Glacier
  • Manage services like Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon RDS
  • Manage user and role access with IAM
  • Execute & manage AWS CloudFormation
  • Knowledge of AWS simple Notification Service (SNS) and Simple Queue Service (SQS)
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1

Introduction

  • What this course covers?
  • What you need for this course?
  • Who this course is for?
  • Conventions
2

An Introduction to Amazon Web Services

  • A background of AWS and its needs
  • The AWS Management Console
  • AWS security measures
  • AWS interaction through the SDK and IDE tools
  • Summary
3

Working with AWS Storage Services

  • AWS storage options
  • Working with Amazon EBS
  • Working with AWS
  • AWS Glacier
  • Summary
4

Computing and Networking Services

  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
  • Best practices
  • Tools
  • Computing and networking tools and libraries
  • Summary
5

Managed Services and the Databases

  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • Amazon RDS
  • Database tools and libraries
  • DynamoDB local
  • The RDS command-line tool
  • Summary
6

Deployment and Management

  • AWS CloudFormation
  • Alarms with Amazon CloudWatch
  • Identity and Access Management
  • Application deployment using AWS Elastic Beanstalk
  • Summary
7

Working with the AWS Simple Notification Service – SNS

  • Identifying Amazon SNS
  • The service models of Amazon SNS
  • Accessing SNS using the Management Console
  • The sample code and libraries of SNS
  • Summary
8

Working with AWS SQS

  • AWS SQS
  • The baseline concept and object models of SQS
  • Code and libraries of the AWS SQS service
  • Summary
9

Building an Application Using AWS

  • An overview of an application
  • Tool selection
  • Creating an application
  • Summary

1

An Introduction to Amazon Web Services

  • Creating a Custom AWS VPC
  • Creating a Subnet within a VPC
  • Creating an AMI from an EC2 Launched Instance
  • Enabling CloudTrail
2

Working with AWS Storage Services

  • Attaching Amazon EBS to an Instance
  • Creating an Amazon S3 Bucket
  • Creating a Glacier Vault
3

Computing and Networking Services

  • Using Amazon EC2
4

Deployment and Management

  • Creating a CloudWatch Alarm
5

Working with the AWS Simple Notification Service – SNS

  • Creating an Amazon SNS Topic
6

Working with AWS SQS

  • Enabling Long Polling in Amazon SQS from the AWS Management Console
  • Publishing a Message
  • Creating an SQS Queue
  • Creating an IAM Role

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No, this is a beginner-friendly course and you can gradually build on your AWS cloud skills. However, some fundamental knowledge of multi-tier architects, general networks and cloud computing will speed up your learning.

You’ll learn about the cloud technologies related to AWS web services including Management Console, Command Line Interface, SDKs, EC2, S3, RDS, NoSQL database, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, IAM, SNS and SQS.

An AWS Essentials Certification is definitely worth your time and investment. You'll be more equipped to provide cost-effective AWS technology solutions for varying business needs. It will boost your industry-relevant tech skills and give you a competitive edge in the job market.

They are both introductory-level courses focusing on the fundamentals of AWS. While AWS Technical Essentials is in-depth and offers more technical briefing, AWS Cloud Practitioner is more aligned with the certification exam outline. The ideal choice would depend on your learning goals and career objectives.

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