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AWS Foundations

Hands-on AWS: a safe account and budgets; IAM and policies; EC2, Auto Scaling and load balancing; S3 and data lifecycle; VPC networking; RDS and DynamoDB; Lambda and serverless; monitoring, cost and the Well-Architected Framework; and a resilient web-app deployment project.

  • BeginnerNo prior experience needed
  • 28 hTotal content time
  • 18 lessonsOrdered from basics to practice
  • In ArabicWith technical terms in English

About this course

Hands-on AWS: a safe account and budgets; IAM and policies; EC2, Auto Scaling and load balancing; S3 and data lifecycle; VPC networking; RDS and DynamoDB; Lambda and serverless; monitoring, cost and the Well-Architected Framework; and a resilient web-app deployment project.

Academy-authored content.

Course highlights

  • Set up and secure an AWS account with IAM, MFA, budgets and least-privilege policies
  • Deploy and scale compute with EC2, Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing
  • Store and protect data with S3, EBS and lifecycle policies
  • Design a VPC and choose managed databases (RDS, DynamoDB)
  • Build event-driven serverless functions with Lambda
  • Monitor, control cost and review a design against the Well-Architected Framework

The practical result

What you’ll build in this course

Hands-on AWS: a safe account and budgets; IAM and policies; EC2, Auto Scaling and load balancing; S3 and data lifecycle; VPC networking; RDS and DynamoDB; Lambda and serverless; monitoring, cost and the Well-Architected Framework; and a resilient web-app deployment project.

Final lesson: Lesson 6.3

Is this course for you?

Who it’s for

  • students and IT staff starting with AWS; preparation for entry-level AWS learning paths

Requirements

  • CRS-GEN-CLOUD-FUNDAMENTALS

Course content

  • 8units
  • 18sessions
  • 7quizzes
Unit 13 sessions
  1. Lesson 1.1
  2. Lesson 1.2
  3. Lesson 1.3
Unit 23 sessions
  1. Lesson 2.1
  2. Lesson 2.2
  3. Lesson 2.3
Unit 33 sessions
  1. Lesson 3.1
  2. Lesson 3.2
  3. Lesson 3.3
Unit 43 sessions
  1. Lesson 4.1
  2. Lesson 4.2
  3. Lesson 4.3
Unit 53 sessions
  1. Lesson 5.1
  2. Lesson 5.2
  3. Lesson 5.3
Unit 63 sessions
  1. Lesson 6.1
  2. Lesson 6.2
  3. Lesson 6.3
Quizzes0 sessions · 7 quizzes
  1. Quiz 1
  2. Quiz 2
  3. Quiz 3
  4. Quiz 4
  5. Quiz 5
  6. Quiz 6
  7. Final exam
Projects and assignments0 sessions
  1. Assignment 1
  2. Assignment 2
  3. Assignment 3

The lecturer

Lecturer

Eng. Abdelmaksoud

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