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