Overview
  • Introduction
  • Downloadable Resources
  • Increase the speed of learning
  • New Version of Certified Solutions Architect Associate Exam (SAA-C02)
  • SAA-C02 Exam Overview and Preparation Strategies
  • Weekly SAA Study Group
  • My experience taking AWS SAA C02, and C01 exams
  • Benefits of Cloud Computing
  • AWS Global Infrastructure
  • How to Access Discount Vouchers
Housekeeping
  • Downloadable Resources
  • AWS Account Setup, Free Tier Offers, Billing, Support
  • Billing Alerts, Delegate Access
  • IAM User and Command Line Tool Setup
  • KeyPair and Tools to connect to EC2 Instances
Infrastructure, Pricing, Support - Review
  • Introduction
  • Infrastructure, Pricing, Support Plan, and Shared Responsibility
Networking Primer
  • ReadMe
  • Downloadable Resources
  • Network Addressing Primer
  • Classless Inter Domain Routing
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) - Networking Infrastructure
  • Downloadable Resources
  • VPC Introduction, App Deployment, Router, Internet Gateway
  • Firewall - Security Group
  • Firewall - Network ACL (NACL)
  • IP Types - Private, Public, Elastic
  • Lab - VPC Wizard Launch Configuration
  • Lab - Default VPC Overview
  • Lab - Create a Public VPC
  • Amazon Linux 2 AMI
  • Lab - Launch EC2 Instance
  • Lab - Security Group and NACL Firewall
  • Lab - Ping EC2 Instances
  • VPC Data Flow Walk Through
  • VPC Traffic Flow - Sequence of Steps
  • Lab - IPv6 Configuration and Testing
  • Default VPC, Flow Log, Resource Access Manager, and NAT source/destination check
  • Lab - VPC Flow Log
  • AWS Service Integration - Internet, NAT, Gateway and Interface Endpoints
  • Demo - VPC Endpoint ReadMe
  • Peering Connection, Transit Gateway
  • Lab - Peering Connection (Same Region)
  • Lab - Cross Region Peering Connection
  • External Clients, Public Endpoints, Private Link
  • Bastion Host, Session Manager (Systems Manager)
  • Use NAT Gateway for the next lab
  • Demo - Bastion Host VPC Setup with Public and Private Subnets
  • Demo - Bastion Host Security Group, Launch Private and Public Instances
  • Demo - Bastion Host Credential Forwarding and Connecting to Instances
  • Demo - Bastion Host Cleanup
  • Hybrid Infrastructure - Site-Site VPN, Cloud Hub, Client VPN
  • Hybrid Infrastructure - Direct Connect
  • VPC Review
  • Virtual Private Cloud Quiz
  • Virtual Private Cloud Quiz
Excerpts from SAA Study Group Session
  • Weekly SAA Study Group
  • How do I launch a career in the Cloud?
  • Why Two Firewalls?
  • What does Stateful and Stateless Firewall mean?
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) - Compute Service
  • Downloadable Resources
  • Introduction
  • Instance and Elastic Block Store (EBS), Dedicated and Shared Resources
  • EC2 Virtualization Types, Nitro and BareMetal
  • EC2 Console and Amazon Machine Images (AMI)
  • Instance Family, Type, Size, Hardware Acceleration
  • General Purpose, Burstable, Unlimited, CPU Credits
  • Compute, Storage, Memory, Accelerated Computing Instance Families
  • Which Instance Family to Pick?
  • Amazon Linux 2 AMI
  • Demo - CPU Credits, Burstable and Unlimited Mode
  • Demo - EC2 Web Server Setup
  • Demo - EC2 Reboot, Stop, Start
  • Demo - Elastic IP
  • Demo - Resize Instances
  • Demo - Launch Windows EC2 instances
  • Placement Group
  • Bastion Host Lab Moved to VPC Section
  • IAM Roles - Access Other AWS Services From EC2
  • Demo - EC2 Instance with IAM Roles to Access S3
  • EC2 Instance Purchasing Options
  • Reserved Instance Pricing and Features
  • *NEW* Savings Plan Pricing
  • Spot Instance Pricing Model
  • Spot Usage Examples, Best Practices
  • Demo - Spot Instance Launch
  • Demo - Spot Instance Diversified Allocation Strategy
  • Pricing - EC2, Elastic IP, Data Transfer, Storage, GPU
  • User Data - Customize Instance at Launch
  • Amazon Linux 2
  • Demo - Customize Instance with User Data
  • Instance Metadata - Query Instance Attributes at Runtime
  • Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) Version 2
  • Demo - Query Instance Metadata