Networking Essentials for Cloud Applications on AWS

Written by Gemma Corrado on 11. January 2024. Posted in AWS Training, Training.

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Networking Essentials for Cloud Applications on AWS

Please find our upcoming course dates at the end of this page!

Course description

The Networking Essentials for Cloud Applications on AWS course provides a comprehensive understanding of networking concepts and services within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environment. Designed for novice and experienced networking engineers, this course covers essential topics, best practices, and hands-on labs. Its purpose is to equip learners with the knowledge and skills that are required to design, configure, and optimize network infrastructure on AWS.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

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.

INTENDED AUDIENCE

This course is intended for:

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

PREREQUISITES

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

ACTIVITIES

This course includes:

presentations
demonstrations
knowledge checks
three hands-on labs that revolve around a use case story

COURSE DURATION / PRICE

1 day
€ 750,00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)

Course outline

Day 1

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
- Hands-on lab: Building a Multi-Availability Zone VPC Architecture
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
- Hands-on lab: Accelerating Performance with Amazon CloudFront
Module 4: High Availability with Amazon Route 53
- Amazon Route 53
- Knowledge check
- Use case part three
- Hands-on lab: Achieving Fault Tolerance and Global Traffic Optimization
Module 5: Course Wrap-Up
- Course reflection
- Use case labs recap
- Use case conclusion
- Course feedback survey

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our trainings. If this is not possible, please contact us in advance.

Course materials are in English, on request also in German (if available).
The Course language is German, on request also in English.

Neue Termine in Planung!

AWS Migrations Essentials

Written by Gemma Corrado on 24. May 2023. Posted in AWS Training, Training.

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AWS Migrations Essentials

Please find our upcoming course dates at the end of this page!

Course description

This course is intended to provide solutions Architects with the foundational knowledge required to successfully plan and perform lift and shift migrations to the AWS Cloud. In this course you will learn about methodologies for discovering, planning, performing, and tracking migrations by using various AWS tools and services.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

In this course, you will learn to:

Determine cloud readiness and migration strategies using assessment tools and services provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Articulate the key tasks involved in planning and mobilizing migrations.
Describe, at a high level, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) services, resources, and tools necessary for migrations of data and databases.
Describe, at a high level, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) services, resources, and tools necessary for migrations of applications.

INTENDED AUDIENCE

This course is intended for:

Technical audience (solutions architects, developers, and administrators) with limited to no knowledge on cloud migration.

PREREQUISITES

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

AWS Technical Essentials

ACTIVITIES

This course includes:

presentations
demonstrations
assessments
hands-on labs

COURSE DURATION / PRICE

1 day
€ 750,00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)

Course outline

Day 1

Module 0: Course Introduction
- Introductions
- Course overview
Module 1: Assess
- Migration phases
- Migration drivers and outcomes
- Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART)
- Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA)
- Migration Evaluator
- Migration Portfolio Assessment (MPA)
Module 2: Mobilize
- Landing zones
- AWS Application Discovery Service
- Migration strategies
- AWS Migration Hub
Module 3: Migrate and Modernize: Database and Data Migration
- AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
- Data migration
- Lab 1: Database Migration with AWS DMS
Module 4: Migrate and Modernize: AWS Application Migration Service
- Migrate servers with AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN)
- Modernization phases
- AWS Well-Architected Framework for migration
- Application optimization
- Lab 2: Application Migration with AWS MGN
Module 5: Course Summary

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our trainings. If this is not possible, please contact us in advance.

Course materials are in English, on request also in German (if available).
The Course language is German, on request also in English.

Neue Termine in Planung!

One Day AWS Jam

Written by Gemma Corrado on 3. May 2023. Posted in AWS Training, Training.

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Aws Premium Consuting Partner

One Day AWS Jam

Please find our upcoming course dates at the end of this page!

Course description

Put your skills to the test by solving challenges in a fun way!

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Engage:

Work on mastering common AWS use cases and operational tasks to earn points.
Compete with rivals for the prestigious top spot on the leaderboard.

Learn, and improve your AWS skills:

Learn best practices from AWS experts, gain real-life experience, and solve scenarios that teach you AWS skills through independent discovery, learning, and hands-on building.

Validate:

Earn points for solving challenges using AWS-provided infrastructure according to proven best practices.
Compare your performance with your peers!

INTENDED AUDIENCE

Who should participate in the Jam?

A Jam is designed to challenge people of all technical skill levels. There will be some easy, medium, and difficult challenges in all different topics and technologies. For challenges that cover topics that are new or too difficult for the user, the Jam platform provides hints to help participants learn best practices.

COURSE DURATION / PRICE

1 day
€ 750.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our trainings. If this is not possible, please contact us in advance.

Course materials are in English, on request also in German (if available).
The Course language is German, on request also in English.

Neue Termine in Planung!

DevOps Engineering on AWS with AWS Jam

Written by Gemma Corrado on 29. March 2023. Posted in AWS Training, Training.

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DevOps Engineering on AWS with AWS Jam

Please find our upcoming course dates at the end of this page!

Course description

DevOps Engineering on AWS teaches you how to use the combination of DevOps cultural philosophies, practices, and tools to increase your organization’s ability to develop, deliver, and maintain applications and services at high velocity on AWS. This course covers Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), infrastructure as code, microservices, monitoring and logging, and communication and collaboration. Hands-on labs give you experience building and deploying AWS CloudFormation templates and CI/CD pipelines that build and deploy applications on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), serverless applications, and container-based applications. Labs for multi-pipeline workflows and pipelines that deploy to multiple environments are also included.

The final day is an AWS Jam, a gamified event, with teams competing to score points by completing a series of challenges according to established best practices based on concepts covered in the course. You get to experience a wide range of AWS services in a series of real-world scenarios that represent common operational and troubleshooting tasks. The end result is developing, enhancing, and validating your skillsets in the AWS Cloud through real-world problem solving, exploring new services, features, and understanding how they interoperate.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

In this course, you will learn to:

Use DevOps best practices to develop, deliver, and maintain applications and services at high velocity on AW
List the advantages, roles and responsibilities of small autonomous DevOps teams
Design and implement an infrastructure on AWS that supports DevOps development projects
Leverage AWS Cloud9 to write, run and debug your code
Deploy various environments with AWS CloudFormation
Host secure, highly scalable, and private Git repositories with AWS CodeCommit
Integrate Git repositories into CI/CD pipelines
Automate build, test, and packaging code with AWS CodeBuild
Securely store and leverage Docker images and integrate them into your CI/CD pipelines
Build CI/CD pipelines to deploy applications on Amazon EC2, serverless applications, and container-based applications
Implement common deployment strategies such as “all at once,” “rolling,” and “blue/green”
Integrate testing and security into CI/CD pipelines
Monitor applications and environments using AWS tools and technologies
Work in a team environment to solve real AWS use-case challenges in an AWS Jam

INTENDED AUDIENCE

This course is intended for:

DevOps engineers
DevOps architects
Operations engineers
System administrators
Developers

PREREQUISITES

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

Previous attendance at the Systems Operations on AWS or Developing on AWS courses
Working knowledge of one or more high-level programing languages, such as C#, Java, PHP, Ruby, Python
Intermediate knowledge of administering Linux or Windows systems at the command-line level
Two or more years of experience provisioning, operating, and managing AWS environments

ACTIVITIES

This course includes:

presentations
group exercises
hands-on labs
team-based gamified challenge

COURSE DURATION / PRICE

4 days
€ 2,485.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)

Course outline

Day 1
- Module 1: Introduction to DevOps
  - What is DevOps?
  - The Amazon journey to DevOps
  - Foundations for DevOps
- Module 2: Infrastructure Automation
  - Introduction to Infrastructure Automation
  - Diving into the AWS CloudFormation template
  - Modifying an AWS CloudFormation template
  - Demonstration: AWS CloudFormation template structure, parameters, stacks, updates, importing resources, and drift detection
- Module 3: AWS Toolkits
  - Configuring the AWS CLI
  - AWS Software Development Kits (AWS SDKs)
  - AWS SAM CLI
  - AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)
  - AWS Cloud9
  - Demonstration: AWS CLI and AWS CDK
  - Hands-on lab: Using AWS CloudFormation to provision and manage a basic infrastructure
- Module 4: Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) with development tools
  - CI/CD Pipeline and Dev Tools
  - Demonstration: CI/CD pipeline displaying some actions from AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy and AWS CodePipeline
  - Hands-on lab: Deploying an application to an EC2 fleet using AWS CodeDeploy
Day 2
- Module 4: Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) with development tools
  - AWS CodePipeline
  - Demonstration: AWS integration with Jenkins
  - Hands-on lab: Automating code deployments using AWS CodePipeline
- Module 5: Introduction to Microservices
  - Introduction to Microservices
- Module 6: DevOps and containers
  - Deploying applications with Docker
  - Amazon Elastic Container Service and AWS Fargate
  - Amazon Elastic Container Registry and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes service
  - Demonstration: CI/CD pipeline deployment in a containerized application
- Module 7: DevOps and serverless computing
  - AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate
  - AWS Serverless Application Repository and AWS SAM
  - AWS Step Functions
  - Demonstration: AWS Lambda and characteristics
  - Demonstration: AWS SAM quick start in AWS Cloud9
  - Hands-on lab: Deploying a serverless application using AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) and a CI/CD Pipeline
- Module 8: Deployment strategies
  - Continuous Deployment
  - Deployments with AWS Services
- Module 9: Automated testing
  - Introduction to testing
  - Tests: Unit, integration, fault tolerance, load, and synthetic
  - Product and service integrations
Day 3
- Module 10: Security automation
  - Introduction to DevSecOps
  - Security of the Pipeline
  - Security in the Pipeline
  - Threat Detection Tools
  - Demonstration: AWS Security Hub, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Config, and Amazon Inspector
- Module 11: Configuration management
  - Introduction to the configuration management process
  - AWS services and tooling for configuration management
  - Hands-on lab: Performing blue/green deployments with CI/CD pipelines and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS
- Module 12: Observability
  - Introduction to observability
  - AWS tools to assist with observability
  - Hands-on lab: Using AWS DevOps tools for CI/CD pipeline automation
- Module 13: Reference architecture (Optional module)
  - Reference architectures
- Module 14: Course summary
  - Components of DevOps practice
  - CI/CD pipeline review
  - AWS Certification
Day 4
- AWS Jam
  - Participate in team-based challenges in a real AWS environment
  - Compete with your colleagues in a gamified, hands-on learning experience
  - Apply your learning from the course on various AWS services

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our trainings. If this is not possible, please contact us in advance.

Course materials are in English, on request also in German (if available).
The Course language is German, on request also in English.

Neue Termine in Planung!

Architecting on AWS with AWS Jam

Written by Gemma Corrado on 29. March 2023. Posted in AWS Training, Training.

Aws Advanced Training Partner
Aws Premium Consuting Partner

Architecting on AWS with AWS Jam

Please find our upcoming course dates at the end of this page!

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Architecting on AWS is for solutions architects, solution-design engineers, and developers seeking an understanding of AWS architecting. In this course, you will learn to identify services and features to build resilient, secure and highly available IT solutions on the AWS Cloud.

Architectural solutions differ depending on the industry, types of applications, and business size. AWS Authorized Instructors emphasize best practices using the AWS Well-Architected Framework, and guide you through the process of designing optimal IT solutions, based on real-life scenarios. The modules focus on account security, networking, compute, storage, databases, monitoring, automation, containers, serverless architecture, edge services, and backup and recovery. At the end of the course, you will practice building a solution and apply what you have learned with confidence.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

In this course, you will learn to:

Identify AWS architecting basic practices.
Explore using the AWS management tools: The AWS Console, Command Line Interface (CLI), and CloudFormation in a lab environment.
Examine the enforcement of accounts security using policies.
Identify the elements that build an elastic, secure, virtual network that includes private and public subnets.
Practice building an AWS core networking infrastructure.
Determine strategies for a layered security approach to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) subnets.
Identify strategies to select the appropriate compute resources based on business use-cases.
Practice building a VPC and adding an Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instance in a lab environment.
Practice installing an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) instance and an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in the VPC you created.
Compare and contrast AWS storage products and services, based on business scenarios.
Compare and contrast the different types of AWS database services based on business needs.
Practice building a highly available, auto-scaling database layer in a lab.
Explore the business value of AWS monitoring solutions.
Identify and discuss AWS automation tools that will help you build, maintain and evolve your infrastructure.
Discuss network peering, VPC endpoints, gateway and routing solutions based on use-cases.
Discuss hybrid networking configurations to extend and secure your infrastructure.
Discuss the benefits of microservices as an effective decoupling strategy to power highly available applications at scale.
Explore AWS container services for the rapid implementation of an infrastructure-agnostic, portable application environment.
Identify the business and security benefits of AWS serverless services based on business examples.
Practice building a serverless infrastructure in a lab environment.
Discuss how AWS edge services address latency and security.
Practice building a CloudFront deployment with an S3 backend in a lab environment.
Explore AWS backup, recovery solutions, and best practices to ensure resiliency and business continuity.
Build a highly available and secure cloud architecture based on a business problem, in a project-based facilitator-guided lab.

INTENDED AUDIENCE

This course is intended for:

solutions architects
solution-design engineers
developers seeking an understanding of AWS architecting
individuals seeking the AWS Solutions Architect-Associate certification

PREREQUISITES

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials, or
- Working knowledge of distributed systems
- Familiarity with general networking concepts
- Familiarity with IP addressing
- Working knowledge of multi-tier architectures
- Familiarity with cloud computing concepts

ACTIVITIES

This course includes:

presentations based on use cases
group discussions
demonstrations
assessments
hands-on labs

COURSE DURATION / PRICE

4 days
€ 2,285.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)

Course outline

Day 1
- Module 1: Architecting Fundamentals Review
  - AWS Services and Infrastructure
  - Infrastructure Models
  - AWS API Tools
  - Securing your infrastructure
  - The Well-Architected Framework
  - Hands-on lab: Explore Using the AWS API Tools to Deploy an EC2 Instance
- Module 2: Account Security
  - Security Principals
  - Identity and Resource-Based Policies
  - Account Federation
  - Introduction to Managing Multiple Accounts
- Module 3: Networking, Part 1
  - IP Addressing
  - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Patterns and Quotas
  - Routing
  - Internet Access
  - Network Access Control Lists (NACLs)
  - Security Groups
- Module 4: Compute
  - Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)
  - EC2 Instances and Instance Selection
  - High Performance Computing on AWS
  - Lambda and EC2, When to Use Which
  - Hands-On Lab: Build Your Amazon VPC Infrastructure
Day 2
- Module 5: Storage
  - Shared File Systems
  - Shared EBS Volumes
  - Amazon S3, Security, Versioning and Storage Classes
  - Data Migration Tools
- Module 6: Database Services
  - AWS Database Solutions
  - Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS)
  - DynamoDB, Features and Use Cases
  - Redshift, Features, Use Cases and Comparison with RDS
  - Scaling
  - Caching and Migrating Data
  - Hands-on Lab: Create a Database Layer in Your Amazon VPC Infrastructure
- Module 7: Monitoring and Scaling
  - Monitoring: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and VPC Flow Logs
  - Invoking Events
  - Elastic Load Balancing
  - Auto Scaling Options and Monitoring Cost
  - Hands-on Lab: Configure High Availability in Your Amazon VPC
- Module 8: Automation
  - CloudFormation
  - AWS Systems Manager
- Module 9: Containers
  - Microservices
  - Monitoring Microservices with X-Ray
  - Containers
Day 3
- Module 10: Networking Part 2
  - VPC Peering & Endpoints
  - Transit Gateway
  - Hybrid Networking
  - Route 53
- Module 11: Serverless Architecture
  - Amazon API Gateway
  - Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS
  - Amazon Kinesis Data Streams & Kinesis Firehose
  - Step Functions
  - Compare Amazon SQS to Amazon MQ
  - Hands-on Lab: Build a Serverless Architecture
- Module 12: Edge Services
  - Amazon CloudFront
  - AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF), DDoS and Firewall Manager
  - Compare AWS Global Accelerator and Amazon CloudFront
  - AWS Outposts
  - Hands-On Lab: Configure an Amazon CloudFront Distribution with an Amazon S3 Origin
- Module 13: Backup and Recovery
  - Planning for Disaster Recovery
  - AWS Backup
  - Recovery Strategies
- Capstone Lab: Build an AWS Multi-Tier Architecture
Day 4
- AWS Jam
  - Participate in team-based challenges in a real AWS environment
  - Compete with your colleagues in a gamified, hands-on learning experience
  - Apply your learning from the course on various AWS services

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our training. If this is not possible, please contact us in advance.

The Course materials are in English, on request also in German (if available).
The Course language is German, on request also in English.