AWS Certification Training

This course is for the absolute beginner. Have you ever wanted to know, in very simple terms, the answer to the following questions?: What is the cloud? What is AWS? What are AWS's core services? Why do we use AWS? If you answered yes to any of these, then this course is for you. Our goal with this course is to provide a simple, conceptual introduction to the concepts of Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, and it's core services. There are no technical explanations or definitions to memorize — this course is visual, and strictly conceptual. When you are done with this course, you will have the conceptual foundation to move forward onto more advanced AWS courses. By having the frame-of-reference understanding from this course, you will be more prepared to tackle the more complex technical concepts and terminology.

AWS Essentials is a course for those who are completely new to AWS. No prior AWS experience is required. We will introduce you to AWS, provide an overview of the core AWS services, and walk you through the process of setting up your own AWS account. Your learning will be reinforced with real-world scenario hands-on activities using our Live Environment, and quizzes will be used to help check your understanding of the presented topics.

Welcome to the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner course.

Are you a business professional, accountant, salesperson, or some other type of non-technical person that works in the tech industry? Have you always wanted to know what cloud computing is, how it works, and what it's used for — without all the technical jargon? If you answered YES, then the Certified Cloud Practitioner course and exam are perfect for you.  

As the cloud computing industry continues to grow, understanding its concepts, purpose, and use cases will become an increasingly valuable skill among non-IT individuals and employees. With that in mind, AWS created an exam that covers the very basics of their cloud computing platform, and that tests you on basic AWS services, benefits, concepts, and use cases. All without having to know detailed technical terms, concepts, and know-how.  

For all those who want to learn these basics, this course has been designed with two main objectives in mind: (1) Prepare you to pass the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam, and (2) learn the foundations of cloud computing and AWS, including its primary services, benefits, and use cases. 

This course is NOT designed to teach you how to build and run applications on AWS. This course is all about conceptual understanding. If you are looking for an introduction to AWS course from a hands-on/cloud engineering perspective, please see our AWS Essentials course. 

This course covers the fundamentals of cloud migrations. The student is guided through lessons covering legacy infrastructure and applications architectures, as well as advanced cloud computing architectures. This course provides best-practice for governance and frameworks for accelerating the adoption of public, private and hybrid cloud.

This course establishes a baseline for AIOps by utilizing Prometheus for managing time series metrics produced by Node Exporter and cAdvisor. The course guides the student through the fundamental concepts required for AIOps and the use of streaming metrics to influence autoscaling. The culmination of the course is the integration of the Prometheus rules with the Kubernetes APIServer to scale nodes in an active Kubernetes cluster.

Welcome to Linux Academy's all new AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate prep course. This course prepares you to take the AWS Solutions Artchitect Certification exam released February 2018.  This course has been developed to provide you with the requisite knowledge to not only pass the AWS CSA certification exam but also gain the hands-on experience required to become a qualified AWS Solutions architect working in a real-world environment.

As part of this course, you will make use of our unique interactive learning tool - The Orion Papers. The Orion Papers is a non-linear, visual, interactive guide designed to enhance your learning and understanding of AWS. This guide can be used independently of the video lessons, but is meant to be supplemental and used in conjunction with the video lessons and hands-on labs. 

Welcome to Linux Academy's AWS Certified Developer Associate course. This course was developed to provide you with the requisite knowledge to not only pass the AWS CDA certification exam but also gain the hands-on experience required to become a qualified AWS Developer working in real-world AWS environments.

As part of this course, we are happy to provide "The Sigma Scripts", which is a visually interactive guide filled with live diagrams and AWS knowledge that you can use as your own personal study resource.

The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator- Associate is a certification based around administering applications on AWS from an operations viewpoint. Although there are some deployment topics, this certification deals more with decisions we must make in our environments based on information we receive from monitoring, auditing, and any performance feedback we gather.

This course has been developed to provide you with the requisite knowledge to not only pass the AWS SysOps Administrator certification exam but also gain the hands-on experience required to become a qualified AWS Systems Operator working in a real-world environment.

Important : This course is valid for the NEW SysOps Exam, the course was recently updated and several Linux Academy Training Architects have taken the new exam and verified the content is still valid.

This course will explore Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) from the very basics of its configuration to an in-depth review of its use cases and advanced features. We will talk about how ECS is architected in order to provide a better understanding of how to manage container-based applications at scale. Once we have a solid foundation of the basics, we will dive into the advanced use cases to uncover the power of ECS.

This course will explore Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) from the very basics of its configuration to an in-depth review of its use cases and advanced features.

We will talk about how EKS is architected in order to provide a better understanding of how to manage container-based applications at scale.

Once we have a solid foundation of the basics, we will dive into the configuration, management, and deployment of a microservices-based application in EKS.

In the Course ‘Introduction to Cloud Migration with Amazon Web Services’, we will take a lot at various techniques to perform cloud migrations. When doing cloud migrations, there are two main migrations that we can perform: virtual machine migration and database migration. This course will have a general section of cloud migration and then more specific sections on database migration and virtual machine migration. The idea of the course is to allow the student to follow along in their own AWS environment if they choose to do so. And the course material will be presented using the premise that the student is working for a company and has been given the task of performing a pilot project on cloud migration. By performing smaller scale virtual machine and database migrations during the pilot project, the student will have learned about the challenges of performing cloud migrations and can give their company recommendations and guidance on moving forward with a larger scale migration. In the first section of the course, Cloud Migration Overview, we will address general techniques that are best practices for migrating to the cloud as well as specific features of the AWS platform that will support migrating databases and virtual machines to the cloud. We will begin with the importance of establishing a solid performance baseline before migration as well as the importance of documenting your candidate system. We will also look at planning a good time frame for your migration and some of the factors that you need to consider when scheduling your migration window. In addition, we will look at some post-migration steps that are necessary to ensure that your system is operating correctly after the migration has taken place. These include running the necessary smoke test, contacting the right personnel and preparing to establish a new baseline once the system has gone into full production. In the next section of the class, we will look at database migration and some of the issues that are involved when migrating an on-premise database to the cloud. We will also look at the two major types of migrations homogeneous and heterogeneous and some of the issues that are unique to both of these types of migrations. In addition to the mechanics of performing the migration, we will look at some of the performance considerations when migrating an on-premise database system to the cloud. To conclude the section, we will migrate a database using both homogeneous and heterogeneous techniques. Next, we will take an in-depth look at virtual machine migrations. We will look at the various techniques that can be used to perform virtual machine migrations and detail the different hypervisors from which virtual machines can originate. We will look at the various operating systems that can be migrated and go in-depth on the file formats used to migrate virtual machines. Finally, we will walk through the process of migrating a virtual machine from the AWS command line interface using AWS VM Import/Export. After performing an import, we can then export this same virtual machine back out of the AWS cloud environment. The benefits of this are in the area of Disaster Recovery. The section will conclude discussing and walking through various ways that migrating to the cloud can be used to greatly assist Disaster Recovery efforts. This is an introductory course, and while the intent is not to provide an in-depth example on every possible cloud migration technique, it will provide a solid foundation in cloud migration and the skills to move forward with more complex cloud migration efforts.

AWS offers a wealth of features allowing an experienced architect, engineer or developer to implement systems to meet any need.

Amazon Lightsail compliments this flexability by providing a simple, cheap but powerful way to utilise AWS services.

Lightsail is suitable for a wide range of skill levels from beginners without any AWS experience to powerusers and developers who need to implement things in a fast and efficient way.

This course aims to teach the skills essential to get the most from Lightsail. It starts with basic concepts and concludes by teaching advanced functionality useful to those looking to achievethe most from the product.

This course is a 'Deep Dive' into Kubernetes Security. The student is guided through the concepts and best practices of Kubernetes Security, and hands-on examples are provided to apply what is covered.

The AWS Certified Security Specialty is a certification based around securing applications in AWS. It is one one three specialty certifications offered by AWS. The certification focuses on five components or domains when designing and operating security in the cloud. These are:

• Identity and Access Management
• Detective Controls
• Infrastructure Protection
• Data Protection
• Incident Response

This course has been developed to provide you with the requisite knowledge to not only pass the AWS Certified Security Specialty certification exam but also gain the hands-on experience required to become a qualified AWS security specialist working in a real-world environment.

Please connect with us at slack.linuxacademy.com in the #security channel if you have questions or feedback.

Big data technologies are some of the most exciting and in-demand skills. These tools power large companies such as Google and Facebook and it is no wonder AWS is spending more time and resources developing certifications, and new services to catalyze the move to AWS big data solutions.

This course will provide you with much of the required knowledge needed to be prepared to take the AWS Big Data Specialty Certification. We will cover the different AWS (and non-AWS!) products and services that appear on the exam. Importantly - we will not cover material you should already have a solid understanding of such as AWS Identity and Access Management, and global infrastructure. For those foundational concepts, definitely review the AWS Certified Developer - Associate Level course here on Linux Academy.

AWS is one of the fastest growing cloud service platforms offered today. It is used worldwide by millions of users!

Being able to achieve the CSA Pro level certification is one of the top achievements for any cloud engineer. With that being understood, it is also one of the most challenging exams offered by any cloud vendor today. You will need to dedicate a numerous amount of hours studying, taking practice exams, and getting hands-on experience within AWS.

Luckily, we're here to help you out! This course is designed to guide you through learning the knowledge and services that are required to pass the CSA Professional exam successfully.

So let's get started!

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Welcome to the AWS Advanced Networking Specialty Certification course. This course is designed to give you the concepts, hands-on practice, practice exams and study tools needed to prepare you for the exam. Although AWS no longer requires an Associate-level certification as a prerequisite to this exam, we recommend that you achieve the Associate-level certifcation prior to attempting the Advanced Networking Specialty exam. A background in networking will prove to be very useful but is not necessarily required. In the course, we will start by building a foundational understanding of networking concepts. We will then build on those foundational concepts by focusing on the design and implementation of highly-available and fault-tolerant network infrastructures including hybrid infrastructure, VPN and Direct Connect as required to support specific user and application requirements while focusing on advanced security concepts and best practices. To reinforce your learning, this course includes lessons, hands-on labs, walkthroughs, flash cards, guides, quizzes and practice exams.

This course will explore AWS automation using Lambda and Python. We'll be using the AWS SDK for Python, better known as Boto3.

You will learn how to integrate Lambda with many popular AWS services, such as EC2, S3, SQS, DynamoDB, and more.

Once we cover the basics, we'll dive into some more advanced use cases to really uncover the power of Lambda.