AWS Administration - MasterClass!

Do you need to set up an AWS infrastructure quickly but don’t have the time to sift through tons of boring documentation?

Amazon Web Services is a bundled remote computing service that provides cloud computing infrastructure over the Internet with storage, bandwidth, and customized support for application programming interfaces. Implementing these services to efficiently administer your cloud environments is a core task. This course offers a quick and easy way to become familiar with the Amazon Web Services cloud, using real-world examples to teach you how to quickly deploy applications.

This comprehensive 3-in-1 course will help you get started with building the key administration skills needed for a robust and resilient cloud experience. To begin with, you’ll understand how to log access and configuration changes for AWS deployments. You’ll also discover techniques to keep your data and applications secure using the newest services from AWS. Next, you’ll bring down your IT costs by managing AWS successfully and deliver high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability. Lastly, you’ll be loaded with tips, tricks, and best-practice techniques to get you on your way to becoming a great AWS administrator!

By the end of this Course, you’ll harness the full capability of AWS to build, automate, and manage your AWS-based cloud environments.

Contents and Overview

This training program includes 3 complete courses, carefully chosen to give you the most comprehensive training possible.

The first course, AWS for Administrators, covers getting started with building the key administration skills needed for a robust and resilient cloud experience. The course will help you understand and build AWS networking solutions and also apply and implement the right compute option to meet your organization’s needs. Using a simple real-world application of a hosting example, you will be guided through core AWS services. After finishing the course, you will be able to manage and maintain tools to automate operational tasks and effectively perform operation and administration tasks.

The second course, AWS Administration Solutions, covers how to build, automate, and manage your AWS-based cloud environments. This video course will help you build and administer your cloud environment with AWS. We’ll begin with the AWS fundamentals, and you’ll build the foundation for the videos you’ll work on throughout the course. Next, you will find out how to manage multiple accounts and set up consolidated billing. You’ll then learn to set up reliable and fast hosting for static websites, share data between running instances and back up your data for compliance. Moving on, you’ll find out how to use the computer service to enable consistent and fast instance provisioning, and will see how to provision storage volumes and auto-scale an application server. Next, you’ll discover how to effectively use the networking and database service of AWS. You’ll also learn about the different management tools of AWS along with securing your AWS cloud. Finally, you will learn to estimate the costs of your cloud. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to easily administer your AWS cloud.

The third course, Mastering AWS Administration, covers core AWS services using the AWS Console and CLI. Powerful techniques all AWS administrators want in their toolbox. This course will teach you to effectively deploy AWS resources like a true pro in a matter of minutes. You will learn the concepts behind architecting systems in the cloud and how to engineer your environment to withstand failures. Take a deep breath and follow these easy deployment scenarios featuring real-world examples of everything from websites to Machine Learning and beyond. This course will catapult you from a young grasshopper, wet-behind-the-ears, into a true AWS Jedi master in just a few hours. Why wait? Take this course and learn how to wield the power of AWS today!

By the end of this Course, you’ll harness the full capability of AWS to build, automate, and manage your AWS-based cloud environments.

About the Authors

● Wayde Gilchrist started moving customers of his IT consulting business into the cloud and away from traditional hosting environments in 2010. In addition to consulting, he delivers AWS training for Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and international consulting firms. When he is not out visiting customers, he delivers training virtually from his home in Florida.

● Lucas Chan has been working in tech since 1995 in a variety of development, systems admin, and DevOps roles. He is currently a senior consultant and engineer at Versant and technical director at Stax. He's been running production workloads on AWS for over 10 years. He’s also a member of the APAC AWS Warriors program and holds all five of the available AWS certifications.

● Rowan Udell has been working in development and operations for 15 years. He has held a variety of positions, such as SRE, front-end developer, back-end developer, consultant, technical lead, and team leader. His travels have seen him work in start-ups and enterprises in the finance, education, and web industries in Australia and Canada. He currently works as a senior consultant with Versant, an AWS Advanced Partner in Sydney. He specializes in serverless applications and architectures on AWS and contributes actively in the Serverless Framework community.

● Ahmed El-Fakharany is a senior Cloud and DevOps engineer. He’s worked with Linux and open-source technologies since 2011. Having held various job titles both in the enterprise world as well as in small and medium-sized startups, Ahmed has experienced the whole lifecycle of software creation and maintenance start to finish. He has also taught many students various DevOps tools like Docker, Ansible, Chef, Vagrant, Jenkins, as well as AWS cloud technologies like EC2, S3, Beanstalk, and Lambda functions. Ahmed is a certified AWS Solution Architect Associate.