Agenda.md

AWS-SAA-C02

Day 01

• Basics of Cloud Computing
• The NIST definition of cloud computing
• Introduction and History of AWS
• Certification Roadmap
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• Free tier account creation and coverage
• AWS Global Infrastructure
• Regions, Availability Zones, Local Zones and Edge Network Locations
• Exploring the AWS Management Console
• Setting up free tier billing alerts
• Shared Responsibility Model (to be revisited)
• AWS Documentation
• AWS Slideshare Channel
• Hands-on Tutorials
• AWS Well-Architected Framework, Free Training

AWS Services

• IAM
  • The AWS Account Root User and only when to use it
  • MFA
  • Policies and Permissions
  • Users
  • Groups
  • Permissions boundary
  • IAM Roles (to be revisited)
  • Common Tasks
• KMS
• CloudHSM
• WAF
• Shield
• Resource Access Manager

Networking Watch this video

• VPC,
  • Subnets (Public, Private)
  • VPC FlowLogs
  • RouteTables
  • Gateways
    • Internet Gateway
    • NAT Gateway, NAT Instances; Comparison
    • VPC Peering
    • Transit Gateway
    • VPC Endpoints (to be revisited)
    • Private Link
  • ENI, ENA, EFA (Comparision)
  • Elastic IP
  • Network ACLs (Stateless)
  • Security Groups (Stateful)
  • Comparison of security groups and network ACLs
  • Site-to-Site VPN
  • Direct Connect
  • Very Good Whitepaper
• Route 53
  • Routing Policies
• CloudFront
• API gateway
• Global Accelerator

Compute

• EC2
• Creation Modification, Deletion
• Userdata, Metadata (Comparison)
• Elastic Load Balancing
  • ALB
  • NLB
• Auto Scaling
  • Launch Configuration
  • Auto Scaling Group
  • Scaling Policies
    • Target tracking policy
    • Simple, Step scaling policy
    • Scheduled scaling policy
    • Scaling Based on SQS
  • Lifecycle Hooks
• EC2 purchasing Options, Tenancy
• Elastic Beanstalk
• HPC
• Placement Group

Day 02

Storage

• Block Storage
  • Instance Stored Volumes
  • EBS, EBS Volumes
    • Types
    • Creation, Modification, Deletion, Movement
    • Snapshot
• Object Storage
• S3
  • Pricing
  • Versioning
  • Static Website Hosting
  • Pre-signed url
  • ACL
  • Bucket Policy
  • S3 Storage Classes
  • Object lifecycle management
  • Encryption
  • Transfer Acceleration
  • Replication
  • Object lock
  • Server access logging
  • Avoiding accidental deletion
• Data Consistency Model
• Glacier
• File Storage
  • EFS
  • FSx for Windows File Server
  • FSx for Lustre
• Storage Gateway
• DataSync
• Snow Family
  • Snowball
  • Snowmobile
  • Snowcone
• HPC relevant storage

Application Integration

• SQS
• SNS

Management & Governance

• Organizations
  • Consolidated Billing
  • Service Control Policies
• CloudWatch
• CloudTrail
• Trusted Advisor
• CloudFormation, Sample Templates
• OpsWorks

Day 03

Database

• RDS
  • Types, Creation, Modification and Deletion
  • Read Replica
  • Aurora global database
  • Hands-on Tutorial
• DynamoDB
  • DynamoDB Globle Tables
  • DAX
• ElastiCache
  • Redis, Memcached, Comparision
• Redshift

Compute

• ECS, Workshop
• Fargate
• EKS, Workshop
• Lambda

Analytics

• EMR
• Kinesis
  • Data Firehose
  • Data Streams
  • Data Analytics

Others

• Serverless Application Workshop
• Decoupling
• Athena
• Quicksight

Wrap up

• Simple Monthly Calculator, AWS Pricing Calculator, AWS TCO Calculator
• AWS Services quotas
• Scope of service e.g. Global, Regional and AZ resources
• Well-Architected Framework, Online free training, WellArchitectedLabs
• AWS Blog
• AWS Knowledge Center
• AWS Samples, AWS Labs
• Application Migration Workshop
• AWS Solutions
• AWS Events
• Ramp-Up Guides
• AWS YouTube Channel reInvent, breakout sessions, aws.training, whitepapers, customer case studies, this is my architecture
• AWS Blog, AWS Online Tech Talks
• Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate