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

Learner Overview of ICF

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

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

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

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

Marc Petricciani, Sr. Design Architect | CS Fixed

April 25, 2024

Get to know the design principles applied in resume creation.

Assuming an IAM role using AWS CLI

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

Disaster Recovery Options

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (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

Week 4 Compute

Why go from Physical Servers to Virtual Machines ?

Physical Server	Virtual Machine
Large upfront costs	Small upfront costs
No need for licensing purchase	VM software licenses
Physical servers and additional equipment take a lot of space	A single physical server can host multiple VMs, thus saving space
Has a short life-cycle	Supports legacy applications
No on-demand scalability	On-demand scalability
Hardware upgrades are difficult to implement and can lead to considerable downtime	Hardware upgrades are easier to implement; the workload can be migrated to a backup site for the repair period to minimize downtime
Difficult to move or copy	Easy to move or copy
Poor capacity optimization	Advanced capacity optimization is enabled by load balancing

EC2 Instances Types Table - https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/#instance-type-matrix

How to Choose the right Compute Platform

AWS Article - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/framework/perf_compute_hardware_select_best_compute_options.html

Typical EC2 Getting Started

AWS Documentation Your Friend

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/

AWS Article User Data Scripts

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/user-data.html

Week 4 Lab Launching an EC2 Instance using the Console

Staring Lab takes about 5 mins to warm up, Lab can take 90 mins or so to complete

Lab Tasks

Task 1: AWS Console login and Amazon EC2 console overview - (basic navigation of EC2 services page)

Task 2: Configure, launch and review the lifecycle of an EC2 instance - (launch instance, review instance state, STOP it)

Task 3: Modify an EC2 instance (modify instance t.3 micro and increase storage to gp3 - 30GB then terminate instance)

Task 4: Launch an EC2 Instance with additional configuration and test User-data implementation (check success Apache)

Task 5: Explore Reboot and Hibernate instance states - ( reboot may take a few minutes - refresh browser possible)

Task 6: Explore Elastic IP (create and associate Elastic IP - test to make sure it’s working - trouble shooting)

Task 7: Access and Explore the EC2 Instance Virtual Machine (connect and do admin update using CLI)

Task 8: Test Termination Protection

Week 5 Databases

Why go from to storing data in flat files to Databases ?

Databases were invented to provide an efficient and organized way to store, manage, and retrieve large amounts of data. Here are some of the main reasons that led to the development of database systems:

1. Data Redundancy and Inconsistency: Before databases, data was typically stored in flat files or spreadsheets, which often led to redundant and inconsistent data across different files or applications. Databases solved this problem by providing a centralized repository for data, eliminating redundancy and ensuring data consistency.

2. Data Integrity: Databases offer mechanisms to enforce data integrity rules, such as constraints and transactions, ensuring that data remains accurate and reliable even in the face of concurrent access or system failures.

3. Data Security: Databases provide built-in security features, such as user authentication, access control, and data encryption, to protect sensitive information from unauthorized access or modification.

4. Data Sharing and Concurrent Access: Databases enable multiple users or applications to access and manipulate data concurrently, while maintaining data integrity and consistency.

5. Data Independence: Databases separate the logical view of data from its physical storage, allowing changes to be made to the physical storage without affecting the logical structure or applications that access the data.

6. Query and Reporting: Databases offer powerful query languages, such as SQL, that allow users to retrieve, filter, and analyze data efficiently, enabling complex reporting and decision-making processes.

7. Application Development: Databases provide a structured and standardized way to store and access data, simplifying the development of applications that require data management capabilities.

8. Scalability and Performance: Modern database systems are designed to handle large volumes of data and provide efficient storage, indexing, and retrieval mechanisms, ensuring scalability and high performance as data grows.

The invention of databases revolutionized the way data is managed and processed, enabling organizations to leverage their data assets more effectively and make better-informed decisions.

Selecting the right database and database migration plan for your workloads

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/selecting-the-right-database-and-database-migration-plan-for-your-workloads/

Decision Tree for AWS Databases

DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. DynamoDB lets you offload the administrative burdens of operating and scaling a distributed database so that you don't have to worry about hardware provisioning, setup and configuration, replication, software patching, or cluster scaling. DynamoDB also offers encryption at rest, which eliminates the operational burden and complexity involved in protecting sensitive data.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/GettingStartedDynamoDB.html