Amazon Web Services (AWS), 3rd Edition

Amazon Web Services (AWS), 3rd Edition

by Chad Smith
Released June 2022
Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN: 0137928521

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Video description

18+ Hours of Video Instruction

More than 18 Hours of Video Instruction Covering Cloud Computing and Available AWS Services

Overview

Amazon Web Services (AWS) LiveLessons is a full-featured video course meant to teach you AWS from the ground up. With over 18 hours of video training, this in-depth course uses foundational training, hands-on demos, and thorough analysis to first introduce you to Amazon’s many AWS services and then provide in-depth examples for how to use those services. This title is a great way to start your AWS journey.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) LiveLessons starts with an overview of AWS, including AWS compute services, AWS database services, AWS Analytics services, and AWS monitoring and automation services among others and going in depth about the basics, concepts, practices, and theories of AWS to become a full-fledged AWS practitioner. The course also covers the prerequisites and skills required to be a successful candidate for AWS certification exams, including AWS Cloud Practitioner and AWS Solutions Architect exams.

This all-new video course is taught by experienced trainer Chad Smith and is full of hands-on demonstrations using both the AWS Console and the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), giving you the opportunity to test out the skills and practice your knowledge as you work your way through the course.

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Topics include
  • Module 1: AWS Overview
  • Module 2: AWS Identity and Access Management
  • Module 3: AWS Network Services
  • Module 4: AWS Compute Services
  • Module 5: AWS Storage Services
  • Module 6: AWS Database Services
  • Module 7: AWS High Availability Services
  • Module 8: AWS Analytics Services
  • Module 9: AWS Management Tools
  • Module 10: AWS Monitoring and Automation Services
  • Module 11: AWS Security Services
  • Module 12: AWS Developer Services
  • Module 13: AWS Billing and Cost Management
  • Module 14: Course Wrap-Up and Next Steps
About the Instructor

Chad Smith has worked in IT for 25 years, starting out as a Linux administrator, progressing through operations, network, and security in various roles. He is now the Principal Cloud Architect at Brightkey.cloud. Chad is a Certified Architect for Amazon Web Services. He brings a wealth of personal experience in cloud adoption, infrastructure design, cloud operations, and cloud security. He holds current AWS certifications in Architecture, SysOps, Security, Networking, and Databases.

You can follow Chad here:
  • Twitter: @brightkey_cloud
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chadsmith1973/
  • Professional blog: https://www.brightkey.cloud/tech-blog/
  • Email: chad@brightkeycloud.com
Skill Level
  • Beginner to Intermediate
Learn How To
  • Get started with AWS, including networking, computing, storage, managing databases, and security
  • Understand cloud-computing platforms, and how AWS fits into them
  • Use EC2, CloudWatch, S3 Buckets, and more
  • Use IAM, VPC, NACLs, AMI, ECS, EKS, EBS, and other various tools
Who Should Take This Course
  • Software developers
  • System administrators
  • Solutions architects
  • Anyone migrating applications to or building applications natively in the cloud
  • Anyone pursuing AWS certification
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Table of contents

  1. Introduction
    1. Amazon Web Services (AWS): Introduction
  2. Module 1: AWS Overview
    1. Module Introduction
  3. Lesson 1: AWS Building Blocks
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 1.1 What is AWS?
    3. 1.2 The Shared Responsibility Model
    4. 1.3 The AWS Account
    5. 1.4 Demo: Introduction to the AWS Console
    6. 1.5 AWS Service Categories
    7. 1.6 AWS Icons and Diagrams
  4. Lesson 2: AWS Global Infrastructure
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 2.1 Data Centers and Availability Zones
    3. 2.2 Demo: Explore Availability Zone IDs (Console)
    4. 2.3 Regions and Local Zones
    5. 2.4 Demo: Enable Local Zones (Console)
    6. 2.5 Edge Locations
    7. 2.6 Service and Resource Scope
  5. Module 2: AWS Identity and Access Management
    1. Module Introduction
  6. Lesson 3: AWS Identities and Federation
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 3.1 AWS Account and Root User
    3. 3.2 IAM Users
    4. 3.3 Demo: Create an IAM User (Console)
    5. 3.4 IAM Groups
    6. 3.5 Demo: Create an IAM Group (Console)
    7. 3.6 Federation Options
  7. Lesson 4: AWS Policies and Permissions
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 4.1 Permissions Evaluation
    3. 4.2 Policy Format
    4. 4.3 Identity-based Policies
    5. 4.4 Demo: Create an IAM Policy (Console)
    6. 4.5 Resource-based Policies
    7. 4.6 Session-based Policies
    8. 4.7 Demo: Generate Temporary Credentials (CLI)
  8. Lesson 5: Accessing AWS Services
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 5.1 AWS Service API Endpoints
    3. 5.2 AWS Console and Command Line Interface (CLI)
    4. 5.3 Demo: Install and Configure the AWS CLI on Linux (CLI)
    5. 5.4 AWS Software Development Kits (SDKs)
    6. 5.5 Demo: AWS Python SDK
    7. 5.6 Demo: Create an IAM Role (Console)
    8. 5.7 Demo: Assume an IAM Role via the CLI
  9. Module 3: AWS Network Services
    1. Module Introduction
  10. Lesson 6: AWS VPC Networks
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 6.1 What is a VPC?
    3. 6.2 VPC Subnets
    4. 6.3 Demo: Create VPC and Subnets
    5. 6.4 VPC Internet Access
    6. 6.5 Demo: Enable Internet Access
    7. 6.6 Network Access Control Lists and Security Groups
    8. 6.7 Demo: Creating NACLs and Security Groups
    9. 6.8 VPC Endpoints
    10. 6.9 Demo: Configuring VPC Endpoints
  11. Lesson 7: AWS Global and Hybrid Networks
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 7.1 VPC Peering Connections
    3. 7.2 Demo: Configure VPC Peering (Console)
    4. 7.3 Demo: Configure VPC Peering (CLI)
    5. 7.4 AWS Transit Gateway
    6. 7.5 Demo: Deploy a Transit Gateway
    7. 7.6 Site-to-Site VPN
    8. 7.7 AWS Direct Connect
    9. 7.8 AWS Client VPN
  12. Lesson 8: AWS DNS Solutions
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 8.1 AWS Route 53 Basics
    3. 8.2 AWS Route 53 Features
    4. 8.3 Demo: Implementing Resilience with DNS (Console)
    5. 8.4 Demo: Implementing Resilience with DNS (CLI)
    6. 8.5 Hybrid DNS Solutions
  13. Module 4: AWS Compute Services
    1. Module Introduction
  14. Lesson 9: AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 9.1 Introduction to Computing in AWS
    3. 9.2 AWS EC2 Basics
    4. 9.3 Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
    5. 9.4 EC2 Key Pairs
    6. 9.5 Demo: Creating Keypairs (Console)
    7. 9.6 Demo: Creating Keypairs in All Regions (CLI)
    8. 9.7 EC2 Metadata and User Data
    9. 9.8 Demo: Launching EC2 Instances (Console)
    10. 9.9 Demo: Launching EC2 Instances (CLI)
    11. 9.10 EC2 Operations
    12. 9.11 Demo: EC2 Operations (Console)
    13. 9.12 Demo: EC2 Operations (CLI)
  15. Lesson 10: AWS Container Services (ECS and EKS)
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 10.1 AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
    3. 10.2 AWS ECS
    4. 10.3 Demo: Create an ECR Repo
    5. 10.4 AWS EKS
  16. Lesson 11: Other Compute Services
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 11.1 AWS Lambda
    3. 11.2 Demo: Deploy a Lambda Function (Console)
    4. 11.3 Demo: Deploy a Lambda Function (CLI)
    5. 11.4 AWS Batch
    6. 11.5 AWS LightSail
    7. 11.6 Demo: Deploy a LightSail Instance (Console)
    8. 11.7 AWS Elastic Beanstalk
  17. Module 5: AWS Storage Services
    1. Module Introduction
  18. Lesson 12: AWS EBS and EFS
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 12.1 Introduction to Storage in AWS
    3. 12.2 AWS EBS Basics
    4. 12.3 Demo: EBS Volume Operations (Console)
    5. 12.4 Demo: EBS Volume Operations (CLI)
    6. 12.5 AWS EFS Basics
    7. 12.6 Demo: Deploy EFS File System (Console)
    8. 12.7 Demo: Mount EFS File System on EC2 (CLI)
  19. Lesson 13: Amazon S3
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 13.1 Amazon S3 Basics
    3. 13.2 Amazon S3 Features
    4. 13.3 Demo: S3 Bucket Creation (Console)
    5. 13.4 Demo: S3 Bucket Access from EC2 (CLI)
    6. 13.5 Demo: S3 Permissions (Console)
    7. 13.6 Demo: S3 Lifecycle Operations (Console)
  20. Module 6: AWS Database Services
    1. Module Introduction
  21. Lesson 14: Amazon RDS and Aurora
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 14.1 Introduction to Databases in AWS
    3. 14.2 Amazon RDS Basics
    4. 14.3 Amazon RDS Features
    5. 14.4 Demo: Deploy RDS Database (Console)
    6. 14.5 Demo: RDS Database Operations (CLI)
    7. 14.6 Amazon Aurora Features
    8. 14.7 Demo: Deploy Aurora Serverless (Console)
  22. Lesson 15: AWS NoSQL Database Services
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 15.1 Amazon DynamoDB Basics
    3. 15.2 Amazon DynamoDB Features
    4. 15.3 Demo: Deploy a DynamoDB Table (Console)
    5. 15.4 Demo: DynamoDB Table Resilience (Console)
    6. 15.5 Amazon Redshift Features
    7. 15.6 AWS DocumentDB Features
    8. 15.7 AWS Neptune Features
  23. Module 7: AWS High Availability Services
    1. Module Introduction
  24. Lesson 16: Elastic Load Balancing
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 16.1 Elastic Load Balancer Basics
    3. 16.2 Application Load Balancer
    4. 16.3 Demo: Deploy an ALB (Console)
    5. 16.4 Demo: Configure Redirects on ALB (CLI)
    6. 16.5 Network Load Balancer
    7. 16.6 GateWay Load Balancer
  25. Lesson 17: EC2 Auto Scaling
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 17.1 Auto Scaling Basics
    3. 17.2 Auto Scaling Features
    4. 17.3 Demo: Deploy an Auto Scaling Group (Console)
    5. 17.4 Demo: Deploy an Auto Scaling Group (CloudFormation)
  26. Lesson 18: Other High Availability Options
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 18.1 API Gateway
    3. 18.2 CloudFront
    4. 18.3 Demo: Deploy CloudFront Distribution (Console)
    5. 18.4 Highly Available Multi-Tier Applications
    6. 18.5 Highly Available Serverless Applications
  27. Module 8: AWS Analytics Services
    1. Module Introduction
  28. Lesson 19: Amazon Kinesis
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 19.1 Kinesis Data Streams
    3. 19.2 Kinesis Data Firehose
    4. 19.3 Demo: Implementing Kinesis Data Firehose (Console)
    5. 19.4 Demo: Implementing Kinesis Data Firehose (CLI)
  29. Lesson 20: Amazon Athena
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 20.1 Amazon Athena Basics
    3. 20.2 Amazon Athena Features
    4. 20.3 Demo: Athena Log Analysis (Console)
  30. Lesson 21: Other Analytics Services
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 21.1 Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
    3. 21.2 Data Pipeline
    4. 21.3 AWS Glue
    5. 21.4 Demo: Implement Glue Data Crawler (Console)
    6. 21.5 Amazon OpenSearch
    7. 21.6 Demo: Deploy OpenSearch (Console)
  31. Module 9: AWS Management Tools
    1. Module Introduction
  32. Lesson 22: AWS Organizations and Single Sign On (SSO)
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 22.1 AWS Organizations Basics
    3. 22.2 AWS Organizations Features
    4. 22.3 Demo: Organizations OU Management (Console)
    5. 22.4 Demo: Provision AWS Account (CLI)
    6. 22.5 Demo: Deploy Organizations SCP
  33. Lesson 23: AWS Systems Manager
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 23.1 Systems Manager Basics
    3. 23.2 Systems Manager Features
    4. 23.3 Demo: Systems Manager Run Command (Console)
    5. 23.4 Demo: Systems Manager Run Command (CLI)
    6. 23.5 Demo: Systems Manager Fleet Manager (Console)
    7. 23.6 Demo: Systems Manager Parameter Store (Console)
  34. Module 10: AWS Monitoring and Automation Services
    1. Module Introduction
  35. Lesson 24: AWS CloudWatch
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 24.1 CloudWatch Basics
    3. 24.2 CloudWatch Features
    4. 24.3 Demo: CloudWatch Metrics (Console)
    5. 24.4 Demo: CloudWatch Agent (CLI)
    6. 24.5 Demo: CloudWatch Logs Insights (Console)
    7. 24.6 Demo: CloudWatch Logs Metric Filters (Console)
  36. Lesson 25: AWS CloudFormation
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 25.1 AWS CloudFormation Basics
    3. 25.2 AWS CloudFormation Features
    4. 25.3 Demo: Deploy CloudFormation Stack (Console)
    5. 25.4 Demo: Deploy EC2 Instance (Console)
  37. Lesson 26: Other Automation Services
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 26.1 AWS Config
    3. 26.2 Demo: AWS Config Rules (Console)
    4. 26.3 AWS EventBridge
    5. 26.4 Demo: AWS EventBridge Rules (Console)
  38. Module 11: AWS Security Services
    1. Module Introduction
  39. Lesson 27: AWS Security Reporting
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 27.1 AWS CloudTrail
    3. 27.2 AWS GuardDuty
    4. 27.3 Demo: Deliver GuardDuty Findings to SNS (Console)
    5. 27.4 Amazon Inspector
    6. 27.5 Demo: Enable Inspector (Console)
    7. 27.6 AWS Security Hub
  40. Lesson 28: Secrets and Key Management
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 28.1 AWS Secrets Manager
    3. 28.2 Demo: Create Secret (CLI)
    4. 28.3 AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
    5. 28.4 Demo: Create Customer Master Key (CMK) for S3 Encryption (Console)
    6. 28.5 AWS Certificate Manager
    7. 28.6 Demo: Create TLS Certificate (Console)
  41. Lesson 29: AWS WAF and Shield
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 29.1 AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)
    3. 29.2 Demo: Create WAF Web ACL (Console)
    4. 29.3 AWS Shield
  42. Module 12: AWS Developer Services
    1. Module Introduction
  43. Lesson 30: CodeCommit and CodeBuild
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 30.1 AWS CodeCommit
    3. 30.2 Demo: Create CodeCommit Repository (Console)
    4. 30.3 AWS CodeBuild
    5. 30.4 AWS CodePipeline
    6. 30.5 AWS CodeDeploy
  44. Lesson 31: SNS, SQS and SES
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 31.1 Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
    3. 31.2 Demo: Create and Subscribe to an SNS Topic (Console)
    4. 31.3 Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
    5. 31.4 Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
    6. 31.5 Demo: Configure SES on Linux Postfix (CLI)
  45. Module 13: AWS Billing and Cost Management
    1. Module Introduction
  46. Lesson 32 Understanding Service Costs
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 32.1 AWS Pricing Model
    3. 32.2 AWS EC2 Pricing
    4. 32.3 AWS Cost Explorer
    5. 32.4 Demo: Use AWS Cost Explorer (Console)
  47. Lesson 33 Cost Attribution and Reporting
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 33.1 Cost Allocation Tags
    3. 33.2 Demo: Enable Cost Allocation Tags (Console)
    4. 33.3 Billing Alarms
    5. 33.4 AWS Budgets
    6. 33.5 Demo: Project Budget with Tags (Console)
  48. Module 14: Course Wrap-Up and Next Steps
    1. Module Introduction
  49. Lesson 34 Well-Architected Framework
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 34.1 The Six Pillars
    3. 34.2 Whitepapers
    4. 34.3 Well-Architected Tool
  50. Lesson 35: Hands-on Resources
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 35.1 AWS Free Tier Pricing
    3. 35.2 AWS Well-Architected Labs
  51. Summary
    1. Amazon Web Services (AWS): Summary

Product information

  • Title: Amazon Web Services (AWS), 3rd Edition
  • Author(s): Chad Smith
  • Release date: June 2022
  • Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
  • ISBN: 0137928521