AWS for Developers training course

What is the Cloud

• Fundamentals of cloud computing
• Benefits of cloud computing
• AWS, Azure, Pivotal, Google and the Cloud Computing Landscape

Introduction to Servers and EC2

• Setting up Servers in the Cloud
• Configuration options for servers
• Autoscaling, Load balancing and Elasticity

Introduction to Storage

• Storage options
• Relational Databases as a Service
• NoSQL Databases as a service
• Object Stores and Archiving
• Caching options

Security and the Cloud

• Security Overview
• Responsibilities of AWS
• Responsibilities of the customer
• Securing your infrastructure
• Managing team access to your AWS Account

The Paradigm Shift for Traditional Infrastructure

• Infrastructure as code
• Serverless architectures with AWS Lambda
• Single click deployment and continuous delivery

Developing applications for the cloud

• Forklifting existing applications
• Leveraging the cloud platform

 Leveraging Messaging

• The importance of decoupling
• SQS based messaging services
• Benefits of SQS
• Implementing messaging

Microservice Implementation

• Deploying Microservices
• Creating a Microservice
• Introduction to containers
• Docker on AWS with EC2 Container Service

Automation of Deployment

• The Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery Paradigm
• Automation of the delivery of server architecture
• Automation of the deployment of applications
• Automating deployment with Elastic Beanstalk
• Automating deployment with CloudFormation

Real World Deployment Example

• Take an existing application and review code
• Consider various deployment / rearchitecting options
• Create an automation pipeline for the deployment of infrastructure and application