Architecting on Amazon Web Services: Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Overview


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Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
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Overview/Description
Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2 is the virtual machine engine for Amazon Web Services. EC2 enables you to run instances of Linux or Windows VMs and spin them up or down with a few clicks. Elastic Block Store provides the raw block level storage for EC2 instances, or for IOPS intensive workloads, such and databases. This course covers an overview of EC2 including the marketplace, and common tasks, such as spinning VMs up or down. It goes on to cover EBS and the roles it can fulfill, and how to monitor an EC2 cloud using CloudWatch. This course is one of a series that cover the objectives for Amazon certification exam AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate.

Target Audience
Individuals who perform a Solutions Architect role using the Amazon AWS cloud.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
2.4

Lesson Objectives

Architecting on Amazon Web Services: Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Overview

  • start the course
  • describe components relating to the Elastic Compute Cloud platform
  • describe the architecture and concepts of Elastic Compute Cloud platform
  • create a Virtual Private Cloud on the Elastic Compute Cloud platform
  • create a Linux instance on the Elastic Compute Cloud platform
  • use the AWS Marketplace to find system images
  • create a Windows instance on the Elastic Compute Cloud platform
  • connect to a Windows and a Linux instance on the Elastic Compute Cloud platform
  • describe the use of security groups on the Elastic Compute Cloud platform
  • create and delete a security group on the Elastic Compute Cloud platform
  • add rules to a security group on the Elastic Compute Cloud platform
  • configure a security group on the Elastic Compute Cloud platform for Virtual Private Cloud
  • describe the Elastic Block Store service on the Elastic Compute Cloud platform
  • create an Elastic Block Store volume on the Elastic Compute Cloud platform
  • create a snapshot on the Elastic Compute Cloud platform
  • describe Amazon Machine Images and how they are used on the Elastic Compute Cloud platform
  • create an Amazon Machine Image on the Elastic Compute Cloud platform
  • import and export an Amazon Machine Image on the Elastic Compute Cloud platform
  • describe options for configuring RAID arrays on Elastic Block Store on the Elastic Compute Cloud platform
  • create a Linux RAID array on Elastic Block Store on the Elastic Compute Cloud platform
  • create a Windows RAID array on Elastic Block Store on the Elastic Compute Cloud platform
  • configure a load balancer on the Elastic Compute Cloud platform
  • perform health checks on the Elastic Compute Cloud platform
  • monitor Elastic Compute Cloud instances using CloudWatch
  • create a VPC, a security group, and a mirror set using EBS volumes using Elastic Compute Cloud on Amazon Web Services

    • Course Number:
    cl_awsc_a02_it_enus

    Expertise Level
    Beginner