What is Cloud Computing
Cloud Service & Deployment Models
How AWS is the leader in the cloud domain
Various cloud computing products offered by AWS
Introduction to AWS S3, EC2, VPC, EBS, ELB, AMI
AWS architecture and the AWS Management Console, virtualization in AWS (Xen hypervisor)
What is auto-scaling
AWS EC2 best practices and cost involved.

Introduction to EC2
Regions & Availability Zones(AZs)
Pre-EC2, EC2 instance types
Comparing Public IP and Elastic IP
Demonstrating how to launch an AWS EC2 instance
Introduction to AMIs, Creating and Copying an AMI
Introduction to EBS
EBS volume types
EBS Snapshots
Introduction to EFS
Instance tenancy- Reserved and Spot instances
Pricing and Design Patterns

Introduction to Elastic Load Balancer
Types of ELB – Classic, Network, and Application
Load balancer architecture
Cross-zone load balancing
Introduction to Auto Scaling, vertical and horizontal scaling, the lifecycle of Auto Scaling
Components of Auto Scaling, scaling options and policy, instance termination
Using load balancer with Auto Scaling
Pre-Route 53 – how DNS works
Routing policy, Route 53 terminologies, Pricing.

What is Amazon VPC
VPC as a networking layer for EC2
IP address and CIDR notations
Components of VPC – network interfaces, route tables, internet gateway, NAT
Security in VPC – security groups and NACL, types of VPC, what is a subnet, VPC peering with scenarios, VPC
endpoints, VPC pricing, and design patterns.

Introduction to AWS storage
Pre-S3 – online cloud storage
API, S3 consistency models
Storage hierarchy, buckets in S3
Objects in S3, metadata and storage classes, object versioning, object lifecycle management, cross-region
replication, data encryption, connecting using VPC endpoint, S3 pricing.

What is a database, types of databases, databases on AWS
Introduction to Amazon RDS
Multi-AZ deployments, features of RDS
Read replicas in RDS, reserved DB instances
RDS pricing and design patterns
Introduction to Amazon Aurora, benefits of Aurora, Aurora pricing, and design patterns
Introduction to DynamoDB, components of DynamoDB, DynamoDB pricing, and design patterns
What is Amazon Redshift, and what are the advantages of Redshift
What is ElastiCache, and why ElastiCache

Introduction to CloudFormation
CloudFormation components
CloudFormation templates
The concept of Infrastructure-as-a-code
Functions and pseudo parameters
Introduction to Simple Notification Service, how does SNS work
Introduction to Simple Email Service, how does SES work
Introduction to Simple Queue Service, how does SQS work.

Pre-IAM, why access management
Amazon Resource Name (ARN), IAM features
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) in IAM, JSON
IAM policies, IAM permissions, IAM roles, identity federation, pricing
Introduction to CloudWatch, metrics and namespaces, CloudWatch architecture, dashboards in CW, CloudWatch alarms,
CloudWatch logs, pricing, and design patterns
Introduction to CloudTrail, tracking API usage.

What is AWS Lambda
How Lambda is different from EC2
Benefits and limitations of Lambda
How does Lambda work
Use cases of Lambda, Lambda concepts
Integrating S3 with Lambda
What is Elastic Beanstalk, how does Beanstalk work, Beanstalk concepts, Beanstalk pricing
What is configuration management
What is AWS OpsWorks, AWS OpsWorks benefits
CloudFormation vs OpsWorks, services in OpsWorks, AWS OpsWorks Stacks, OpsWorks

What is Cloud migration
Why migration is important
Migration process in AWS, the 6 R’s migration strategy
Virtual machine migration, migrating a local VM onto the AWS cloud
Migrating databases using Database Migration Service (DMS)
Migrating a local database to RDS
Migrating an on-premises database server to RDS using DMS, and other migration services.