Introduction to Cloud Foundations Spring Semester

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Class Notes April 8th - June 21

Slack Channel for communication

https://awsdevelopers.slack.com/archives/C06QNLQQQS3

Office Hours on Demand

Schedule a 1:1 meeting with ICF instructors to follow up on questions, concerns , or suggestions

https://prelude.amazon.com/s/fZplOGijF/fKRPC

Weekly Schedule

Weekly Schedule

Learner Overview of ICF

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SkillBuilder Link for E-Learning

https://explore.skillbuilder.aws

Week 1

Quick Start Guide - https://explore.skillbuilder.aws/pages/95/quick-start-guide

Learner Handbook - https://explore.skillbuilder.aws/pages/84/learner-handbook

Important Calendar Dates - https://explore.skillbuilder.aws/pages/83/program-calendar

FAQ - https://explore.skillbuilder.aws/pages/85/faq

Getting help outside the classroom

Enrollment, Billing, Vouchers, Email Address Issues, Non Academic Issues

ACI Customer Support - https://support.aws.amazon.com/#/contacts/aws-training

Week 2

CloudQuest

Play AWS Cloud Quest - https://cloudquest.skillbuilder.aws/

AWS Global Infrastructure - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/

Detail on AWS AZ's - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/aws-fault-isolation-boundaries/availability-zones.html

AWS Outposts - https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/rack/hardware-specs/

IAM Best Practices - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/best-practices.html IAM

Interacting with AWS - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/aws-overview/accessing-aws-services.html

Configure the AWS CLI - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-configure.html

AWS Command Line Practice

AWS CLI Practice

Week 3

Learner Services

https://explore.skillbuilder.aws/pages/82/learner-services

This Thursday April 25th Cloud Chat will be posted as a video replay by 5pm ET with a link to watch.

Design Principles

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Assuming an IAM role using AWS CLI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uogKFE1r60

Disaster Recovery Options

RPO/RTO

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

CI/CD

Lab 2 - Using Trusted Advisor

This lab practices the use of Trusted Advisor to review some security findings, one of those findings alerts the user to the fact that some unnecessary ports are exposed and how to fix them.

Security groups are logical firewalls, we will spend more time in the coming weeks showing greater depth on this subject.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpc-security-groups.html

Security Group Example

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