MODULE 1 INTRODUCTION

• Cloud services
• Business benefits
• Technical benefits
• Scalable architectures
• Understanding elasticity
• Cloud constraints
• Role of an AWS admin

MODULE 2 CLOUD BEST PRACTICES

• Design for failure
• Implement elasticity
• Decouple your components
• Optimize for performance
• Keep things secure
• Optimize for cost

MODULE 3 DESIGN FOR FAILURE

• Virtual Server, EC2 and Elastic IP
• Regions and availability zones
• Amazon machine image (AMI)
• Elastic load balancer (ELB)
• Cloud monitoring (Cloud watch)
• Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
• Manage relational database service (RDS)

MODULE 4 IMPLEMENT ELASTICITY

• Understanding bootstrapping
• Autoscaling
• Scalable storage (S3)
• Elastic Beanstalk
• Opsworks
• CloudFormation and CloudFormer
• Code deploy

MODULE 5 DECOUPLING COMPONENTS

• Simple queue service (SQS)
• Simple workflow service (SWF)
• Simple notification service (SNS)
• Scalable NoSQL data store (DynamoDB)

MODULE 6 OPTIMIZE FOR PERFORMANCE

• Caching (AWS Elasticache)
• Caching (AWS CloudFront)
• Search (AWS CloudSearch)
• Serverless Architecture (API Gateway)
• Serverless Architecture (AWS Lambda)

MODULE 7 SECURITY

• The shared security model
• Identity and Access management (IAM)
• Security groups
• Virtual private cloud (VPC)