Class overview :

Class goals :

• Develop a robust, flexible and cost-effective cloud solution with Amazon Web Services
• Design a highly durable and reliable storage system using Amazon S3, RDS and SimpleDB
• Customize Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) images to meet your business needs
• Build a high-performance computing environment that automatically scales up or down to meet demand
• Deploy and host Web applications using AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Amazon CloudFormation
• Leverage the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud to provision secure, isolated resources

Content of Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services

Administering Amazon Web Services

Getting started with Amazon cloud

• Creating accounts and analyzing the cost breakdown
• Evaluating Service Level Agreements (SLA)
• Console, command-line tools and API

Overview of the architecture

• EC2
• S3
• EBS
• Beanstalk
• RDS
• VPC
• CloudFront
• SimpleDB
• SQS
• CloudWatch
• Selecting geographic regions and availability zones

Achieving Agility with EC2

Managing the EC2 infrastructure

• Browsing Amazon Machine Images (AMI)
• Launching instances
• Specifying security groups and key pairs

Provisioning resources

• Evaluating Elastic Block Store (EBS) and instance store root devices
• Assigning elastic IP addresses
• Mapping instance types to computing needs

Implementing Durable and Reliable Storage

Storing data in the cloud

• Persisting off-instance storage with EBS volumes
• Creating backups with snapshots
• Achieving very high durability with Simple Storage Service (S3)
• Organizing information in Buckets
• Transmitting large amounts of data in or out of the Amazon cloud

Simplifying the database infrastructure

• Achieving high-availability of nonrelational data with SimpleDB
• Effortlessly implement a relational database with Relational Database Service (RDS)

Creating cost-effective distributed solutions

• Decoupling applications with Simple Queue Service (SQS)
• Leveraging CloudFront for high performance edge cache content delivery
• Delivering static and streaming content

Adapting EC2 to Your Business Needs

Customizing virtual machines

• Modifying existing images
• Creating new images off of running instances
• Persisting an AMI to S3
• Sharing images with other users

Creating an AWS cloud architecture

• Applying best practices for a cloud solution
• Selecting a cloud setup for different use case scenarios

Handling Dynamic Resource Requirements

Monitoring from inside or outside of the cloud

• Visualizing utilization metrics with CloudWatch
• Setting alarms to send and receive notifications
• Leveraging traditional monitoring tools

Transparently scaling to meet load variations

• Distributing incoming traffic with elastic load balancing
• Dynamically adding and removing instances with Auto Scaling
• Setting capacity thresholds

Hosting Applications with Elastic Beanstalk

Improving application delivery with Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Deploying and managing scalable applications on the AWS cloud
• Selecting and launching an application environment

Managing application environments

• Customizing and configuring platform stacks
• Provisioning application resources with CloudFormation

AWS Security Features

Controlling account security

• Configuring access credentials
• Enabling MultiFactor authentication
• Managing multiple users with Identity Access Management (IAM)

Leveraging the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

• Provisioning isolated AWS resources
• Bridging EC2 instances to your internal network with a VPN
• Avoiding multitenancy
• Launching EC2 instances on dedicated hardware