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Designing Compute solutions in AWS - Level 1

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Duration: 1 hour and 21 minutes

Designing Compute solutions in AWS - Level 1

This lesson covers the core learning objective to meet the requirements of Designing Compute Solutions in AWS - level 1

Duration: Up to 1 hour and 15 minutes

Create Your First Amazon EC2 Instance (Windows)

You will learn the steps to launch and configure a Windows virtual machine using Amazon AWS.

Duration: Up to 1 hour

Create Your First Amazon EC2 Instance (Linux)

By completing this hands-on lab, you will be able to create your first Amazon EC2 instance using the AWS Management Console.

Duration: Up to 1 hour and 15 minutes

Creating Your First Auto Scaling Group

This lab introduces the basics of Auto Scaling in Amazon Web Services. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Auto Scaling service automatically adds or removes compute resources allocated for your cloud application, in response to changes in demand. For applications configured to run on a cloud infrastructure, scaling is an important part of cost control and resource management.<

Duration: Up to 45 minutes

Introduction to AWS Lambda

Learn how to create and run your first AWS Lambda function.

This course has been designed for those looking to enhance their skills in designing compute solutions in AWS at an introductory level, specifically for those who have less than 6 months experience working with AWS Compute services.

Using a combination of on-demand courses and hands-on labs you will be introduced to a number of different AWS services and features. Using the new skills obtained from this course you will be able to effectively demonstrate knowledge of how to design compute solutions in AWS.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this course you will:

Understand there are different Amazon EC2 compute families
Understand the different services that provide compute resources, such as AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2, or the Amazon Elastic Container Service, etc
Understand that elasticity can be achieved through AWS Auto Scaling
Understand the purpose of AWS Elastic load balancers

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About the Author

Stuart Scott, opens in a new tab

AWS Content Director

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Stuart has been working within the IT industry for two decades covering a huge range of topic areas and technologies, from data center and network infrastructure design, to cloud architecture and implementation.

To date, Stuart has created 250+ courses relating to cloud computing reaching over 1 million+ students.

Stuart is a member of the AWS Community Builders Program for his contributions towards AWS.

He is AWS certified and accredited in addition to being a published author covering topics across the AWS landscape.

Stuart enjoys writing about cloud technologies and you will find many of his articles within our blog pages.

Covered Topics

Amazon Web Services

Compute for AWS

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Amazon Lightsail

AWS Auto Scaling

High Availability