Amazon EC2 Essential Training

Course details

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud, and is one of the most widely used cloud computing services out there today. If you’re a cloud administrator/architect who wants to stay competitive in the job market, it’s more important than ever to know how to leverage Amazon EC2 as more companies move their workloads to the AWS cloud. In this course, Shyam Raj helps you take the first steps in your EC2 learning journey. Shyam starts with the different tiers of service available, as well as the regions and availability zones offered. He explains what an EC2 instance is, what an AMI is and how to create one, shows you how to navigate the EC2 console and dashboard, and more. Shyam then takes a deep dive into EC2 security groups, EBS volumes, and EC2 networking.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Learning Amazon EC2
02 - What is Amazon EC2
03 - AWS Free Tier
04 - AWS regions and availability zones
05 - AWS Local Zones
06 - Picking the right region - Best practices

1. Introduction to Amazon EC2

07 - What makes up an EC2 instance
08 - Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
09 - How to find a pre-defined AMI
10 - How to create and restore an AMI
11 - EC2 instance types
12 - Key pairs
13 - VPC and subnets
14 - Security groups
15 - Demo - Security groups
16 - EBS volumes
17 - Demo - EBS volumes
18 - Advanced launch options - Part 1
19 - Advanced launch options - Part 2
20 - EC2 user data
21 - Connect to your EC2 instance
22 - Navigating the EC2 console
23 - Navigating the EC2 dashboard

2. EC2 Deep Dive

24 - EBS snapshots
25 - Demo - EBS snapshots
26 - Instance store
27 - Elastic IP
28 - Elastic network interface
29 - Demo - Elastic network interface
30 - Placement groups
31 - Instance metadata
32 - Attaching an IAM role
33 - Launch templates
34 - Security groups as source or destination

3. EC2 Purchasing Options

35 - Introduction to EC2 purchasing options
36 - On-demand instances and capacity reservations
37 - Spot instances
38 - Requesting spot instances
39 - Reserved instances
40 - Savings plans
41 - Dedicated instances vs. dedicated hosts
42 - Launching dedicated instances and dedicated hosts

Conclusion

43 - Additional resources