AWS Essential Training for Administrators

Course details

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the most widely used cloud platform and the go-to for many organizations looking to reduce costs by adopting a cloud infrastructure strategy. In this comprehensive course, instructor Shyam Raj guides you through the fundamentals of AWS administration: identity and access with IAM roles and policies, compute and storage management, security and compliance best practices, and cost control. He also explores monitoring tools like CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and EventBridge and shares methods for controlling your AWS cloud costs. Designed for cloud administrators familiar with AWS and cloud fundamentals, this course helps you manage resources effectively and maintain secure, cost-efficient environments.

Learning objectives
Demonstrate how to launch, manage, and troubleshoot EC2 instances.
Explain how to store and manage data securely using Amazon S3.
Illustrate how to monitor performance and control costs with AWS services.
Apply security and compliance measures with AWS services.
Use AWS tools and best practices to identify and respond to incidents.

Concepts

Introduction

AWS essential training for admins

Controlling Access

IAM users and groups
IAM policies
Permissions boundaries
Permissions boundary configuration
Service-to-service communication with IAM roles
Cross-account access with IAM roles
IAM best practices

Managing Compute

Building Amazon Machine Images
Configuring EBS volumes
EC2 instance advanced options
Connect to the EC2 instance
Elastic IP and elastic network interface
Securing with security groups
Controlling access with network ACLs
Using launch templates
EC2 purchasing options
Troubleshooting EC2

Storing Data

Storing with Amazon S3
Configure an S3 bucket
Archiving with S3 Glacier
Sharing files with Amazon EFS
Exploring other storage options - FSx
Exploring other storage options - Storage Gateway
Transferring data with AWS Snow Family
Backing up with AWS Backup

Monitoring Activity

Monitoring with CloudWatch
Logging with CloudTrail
Responding with EventBridge

Protecting Systems

Access Analyzer
Securing keys and secrets
Detecting threats with Amazon GuardDuty
Protecting sensitive data with Amazon Macie
Centralizing security with AWS Security Hub
Managing SSL certificates with AWS Certificate Manager

Management and Compliance

Organizing multiple accounts with AWS Organizations
Service control policies
Setting up AWS Control Tower
Single sign-on with Identity Center
AWS Service Catalog
Sharing with AWS Resource Access Manager
Optimizing with AWS Trusted Advisor
Tracking compliance with AWS Config
AWS Systems Manager
Auditing with AWS Audit Manager
Management best practices

Controlling Cost

Estimating costs with AWS Pricing Calculator
Cost Explorer
Setting AWS budgets

Conclusion

Next steps