Technical considerations
Rearchitecting applications for the cloud
Integrating the cloud with existing applications
Avoiding vendor lock-in
Planning the migration and selecting a vendor

Module 01 - Introduction to Cloud Computing and AWS
1.1 What is Cloud Computing?
1.2 Cloud Service and 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-scaling?
1.8 AWS EC2 best practices and costs involved.
Module 02 - Elastic Compute and Storage Volumes
2.1 Introduction to EC2
2.2 Regions and 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.
Module 03 - Load Balancing, Autoscaling, and DNS
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.
Module 04 - Virtual Private Cloud
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
Module 05 - Storage - Simple Storage Service (S3)
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.
Module 06 - Databases and In-Memory DataStores
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.
Module 07 - Management and Application Services
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.
Module 08 - Access Management and Monitoring Services
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. Set up MFA for a user
5. Creating a CloudWatch dashboard and adding metrics
6. Create a CloudWatch alarm that triggers according to the CPU Utilization of an EC2 instance
7. Creating a billing alarm
8. Creating a log group
9. Creating a trail.
Module 09 - Automation and Configuration Management
9.1 What is AWS Lambda?
9.2 How is Lambda 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.
Module 10 - AWS Migration
10.1 What is Cloud migration?
10.2 Why is migration 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.
Module 11 - Architecting AWS Whitepaper
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.