Networking Essentials for Cloud Applications on AWS

This course is intended for:

• Newly hired cloud engineers
• On-premises IT engineers
• Cloud architects
• Cloud engineers
• Network engineers

In this course, you will learn to:

• Design a networking infrastructure for a scalable production application, considering design trade-offs between different networking services.
• Configure networking services for a highly available, resilient, and scalable application.
• Implement the networking infrastructure according to evolving business requirements.
• Implement networking best practices to align towards AWS Well-Architected Framework.

Module 0: Course Introduction

• Introductions
• Course overview
• Use case introduction

Module 1: Networking on AWS

• IP addressing
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) fundamentals
• Subnets
• Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM)
• Elastic Network Interfaces
• Elastic IP addressing
• Route table
• Internet and NAT gateways
• Basic traffic filtering mechanisms for a VPC
• Knowledge check

Module 2: Load Balancing and Scaling on AWS

• Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
• Cross-zone load balancing
• Auto Scaling group (ASG) basics
• Knowledge check
• Use case part one

Module 3: VPC Interconnectivity and Content Delivery

• VPC interconnectivity
• VPC peering
• VPC Transit Gateway
• VPC endpoints
• Edge locations
• AWS Global Accelerator
• Knowledge check
• Use case part two

Module 4: High Availability with Amazon Route 53

• Amazon Route 53
• Knowledge check
• Use case part three

Module 5: Course Wrap-Up

• Course reflection
• Use case labs recap
• Use case conclusion
• Course feedback survey

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Basic knowledge of networking concepts
• Basic knowledge of AWS services
• AWS Technical Essentials or Cloud Practitioner Essentials

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Activities:

This course includes presentations, demonstrations, knowledge checks, and three hands-on labs that revolve around a use case story.