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Fundamentals of AWS

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LP Box Courses 6 Video Courses
LP Box quiz 7 Quiz sessions
LP Box Lab 6 Hands-on Labs
Duration 11h 48m
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Overview

AWS is a huge player in the cloud computing world, so if you want to become a cloud architect, AWS Fundamentals is a great place to start. But it's about much more than AWS: this path will introduce you to some core cloud principles like distributed storage, concurrent computing, redundancy, and security.

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  • April 6, 2018 - Added Learning Path Exam
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The AWS Technical Fundamentals course (AWS 110) is the introduction to Cloud Academy's comprehensive Amazon Web Services learning tracks series. While subsequent courses in this series will explore individual AWS service categories (like networking or data management) and broader skills (like design principles or application deployments), this course offers a brief summary of everything that AWS ...

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Understanding the fundamentals of AWS is critical if you want to deploy services and resources within the AWS Cloud.  The Compute category of services are key resources that allow you to carry out computational abilities via a series of instructions used by applications and systems.  These resources cover a range of different services and features, these being: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) ...

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How to launch, configure, and access a Linux virtual machine using AWS Lab Overview Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is one of the most popular AWS services. EC2 allows you to launch different types of cloud instances and pay for them with a pay-per-use model. EC2 allows you to have operating system level control of your computing resources while running in Amazon’s computing environment. ...

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How to launch, configure, and access a Microsoft Windows virtual machine using AWS Amazon EC2 is the most famous AWS service and allows you to launch different types of cloud instances and pay for them with a pay-per-use approach. With Amazon EC2 you can create new servers in a few minutes and use different images (AMI) to personalize them. AWS provides several Microsoft Windows Server AMIs ...

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Course Description One of the core building blocks of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is that of storage, and AWS provides a wide range of storage services that allow you to architect the correct solution for your needs.  Understanding what each of these services is and what they have been designed and developed for, gives you the knowledge to implement best practices ensuring your data is ...

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Create your first Cloud Storage bucket using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Lab Overview Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) provides secure, durable, and highly scalable object storage. To upload data such as photos, videos and static documents, you must first create a logical storage bucket in one of the AWS regions. Then you can upload any number of objects to it. Buckets and objects ...

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Learn to manage the storage space of your EC2 instance using Amazon EBS Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides persistent block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud.  Each Amazon EBS volume is automatically replicated within its Availability Zone to protect you from component failure. This provides high availability and durability. Amazon EBS volumes ...

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AWS 160, from Cloud Academy's comprehensive Amazon Web Services learning tracks series, provides a full introduction to AWS networking. You'll get a good first look at some of the key structural elements of AWS traffic control, like Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), security groups, and IP addressing. We'll also briefly discuss such critical networking services as CloudFront, Route53, Auto Scaling, ...

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Learn to create an isolated network using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Amazon Virtual Private Cloud lets you provision a logically isolated section of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define. You have complete control over your virtual networking environment, including selection of your own IP address range, creation of ...

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AWS 180, from Cloud Academy's comprehensive Amazon Web Services learning tracks series, provides an introductory tour of Amazon's database solutions. You'll learn about managed database solutions and about the basic structure and function of Amazon's SQL-based RDS database - whether using the MySQL or AWS's new Aurora database engine. You'll get a walkthrough of an actual configuration and launch ...

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How to launch and connect to an Amazon RDS DB instance Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. You can migrate existing applications and tools that utilize a relational database to the Amazon Web Services because Amazon RDS offers access to the capabilities of a MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, ...

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This course is an introduction to AWS security. During this course we will get started with the most important topics by covering the AWS Shared Responsibility model, the AWS Acceptable Use policy, and penetration testing rules. We will then explore each of the services in the security and identity category. Besides the most obvious of those, Identity and Access Management (IAM), we will also ...

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OverviewThis exam will test the services and concepts discussed in the Fundamentals of AWS learning path. You have 45 minutes to complete 30 multiple-choice questions. You must score 60 percent or higher to pass this exam.Questions will focus on the following service areas in AWS:AWS Platform tools and conceptsCompute servicesStorage servicesNetworking servicesDatabase servicesSecurity ...
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