AWS Certification Training

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Welcome to the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Course.

Are you a business professional, accountant, sales person, 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 it's concepts, purpose, and use cases will become an increasingly valuable skill among non I.T. individuals and employees.  What 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 looks at various backup options and strategies on the AWS platform, with a focus on Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier. Understanding pricing models, security features and concepts, transfer speeds, and everything else involved in backup strategies is very important for both large and small businesses. We walk through some of the differences between traditional backups, and then we contrast that with cloud backups. At the end of this course, you will have a better understanding of how to create and implement backup strategies with Amazon Web Services.

This is the Introduction to Amazon Machine Learning course.We will cover some basic Machine Learning (ML) concepts to start off and then dive into Amazon ML specifics. We will learn about the different types of modelling available and how to get the predictions

This course provides a basic introduction to the concept of DevOps. It seeks to give the student a working knowledge of what DevOps is and how it impacts IT in the real world. This course explains the culture of DevOps as well as some of the main practices and tools associated with DevOps. It also introduces the student to the close relationship between DevOps and the cloud.

This course covers all of the objectives to study and pass CompTIA's Cloud Essentials certification. The CompTIA Cloud Essentials certification focuses on the real-world issues and practical solutions of cloud computing in business and IT. It’s the preferred cloud certification for business professionals and non-IT staff. While it isn’t a technical-heavy certification, its coverage of cloud computing principles is anything but superficial.

Serverless Concepts will teach you the basics of this hot new technology. You'll learn about what constitutes a serverless application. You'll watch how-to videos that show off services like AWS Lambda, Google Firebase, and more. You'll be able to review note cards to remember key elements from the sessions. Finally, connect with us in the community and share how you're adopting this technology and your experiences.

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.

This course is designed to learn AWS 100% hands-on. You will be emersed in the world of AWS and working soley within an AWS environment at all times. You will quickly start to understand and master AWS the hard way!

This course will give the student an in-depth experience with Identity and Access Management. The course will start off covering basic concepts, such as root account management, and continue to build on this initial foundation. The student can use their own AWS account to follow along with the lessons in configuring a small (fictitious) company with Identity and Access Management. At the end of the course, the student will have gained extensive experience in configuring a company of any size in Identity and Access Managment.

Before beginning any of the lessons for this course, make sure to download the appropriate policy for the given lesson in the Downloads section of the course. 

This course will prepare the prospective student to be more security minded with their architecture in AWS.  In addition, you will find that the subjects and materials covered within this course will also equip the student with the knowledge and hands-on experience with various AWS services dealing with encryption, monitoring, and auditing. 

This course will give the student in-depth experience with CloudFormation. The course will start off covering basic CloudFormation concepts and continue to build on this initial foundation. The sutdent will learn about the structure of templates and how to build and update them using both json and yaml. The student will also learn how to create stack from templates using various techniques and also to update stacks using various techniques including change sets. The course will cover working with templates using CloudFormation Designer as well as creating templates in commonly used editors. Near the conclusion of the course, the student will gain experience using CloudFormation with other technologies such as Docker, Jenkins, and Lambda and will work through some practical examples such as Continuous Integration and Disaster Recovery scenarios.

Before beginning any of the hands-on labs for this course, make sure to download the templates provided under the Downloads tab.

Serverless architecture is rapidly growing and gaining a strong foothold in today's businesses. AWS Lambda provides the ability for developers and teams to focus strictly on their code, not having to worry about the infrastructure that hosts it.

This Amazon Web Services Lambda Deep Dive will take you in for a low-level look at the service and it's core concepts so you can utilize it to meet your needs! We have set up several lessons, hands-on live activities, and real-world scenarios for you to use to learn as much as possible.

Now, let's get serverless!

In this course, you will build what is possibly your first fullstack serverless application using AWS. We'll look at everything required to develop and deploy a web application using purely serverless technologies.

If you're not sure what 'serverless' is, don't worry! We'll also briefly explain the benefits (and the drawbacks) you get when working with technologies that offload server maintenance and configuration to a provider like AWS. You'll work with AWS services that include Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, and S3 to create a fully-functional serverless application.

In this course, you will build out a serverless alerting chatbot application using AWS. We'll learn and walk through everything required to develop and deploy the chatbot using AWS Lambda, Amazon Lex and a few other AWS services.

You will work with AWS services that include AWS Lambda, Amazon Lex, AWS Simple Email Service, and AWS Simple Notification Service to create a chatbot that allows imaginary employees to trigger alerting procedures from a messaging platform. You will also see how you could integrate your chatbot application with the Slack messaging platform.

Throughout this course, we will learn how to use the power of Ansible to automate application deployments in Amazon Web Services. The capabilities that AWS offers can enable us to dynamically provision workloads in the cloud. We will learn how to use Ansible to help us control cloud deployments, create DevOps workloads and secure them in AWS. Ansible enables full orchestration within AWS for a complete DevOps workflow solution.

This course will not only teach you the basics of Terraform and Ansible, but it will also help you to better understand AWS and deploy your very own blog! This blog can be used to represent yourself, help your portfolio, or it can even be used to quickly test out new tools and DevOps procedures! 

Designing an application, writing code, solving complex algorithms - that is the easy part. We all know that the true hero is the person who can manage and deploy the code once it has been created. This is where AWS Developer Tools step in and allows you to become the hero every organization needs. AWS CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline provides all the tools needed to successfully store, manage, and deploy your code to a fleet of servers (or just one) - in either the cloud, on-premise, or both. These services include: CodeCommit: A Git based version control system CodeDeploy: Automate deployments to test, developer & production environments CodePipeline: Create deployment models, and visual deployment workflow So what are you waiting for? Linux Academy will be with you each step-of-the-way, providing the best instructional videos so you can learn and, most importantly, implement what you have learned into real life scenarios.

This course focuses on all Things Active Directory within AWS. If you are new to Active Directory we first learn what Active Directory is and why we need it in the enterprise. Then we learn about the AWS AD managed services that AWS offers. We learn to setup and manage these services as well as how to create hybrid Active Directory environments between your on premise data centers and to AWS. We will also talk about site-to-site VPN tunnels and what is needed to tie AD environments together.

In this course, you will develop the skills that you need to write effective and powerful scripts and tools using Python 3. We will go through the necessary features of the Python language to be able to leverage its additional benefits in writing scripts and creating command line tools (data types, loops, conditionals, functions, error handling, and more). Beyond the language itself, you will go through the full development process including project set up, planning, and automated testing to build two different command line tools.

The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional exam tests the candidate's technical expertise in provisioning, operating, and managing distributed application systems on the AWS platform. For this exam, you should know how to:

• Implement and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS
• Understand, implement, and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation
• Define and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems on AWS
• Implement systems that are highly available, scalable, and self-healing on the AWS platform
• Design, manage, and maintain tools to automate operational processes

This course is designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills required to pass the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional exam and to successfully apply these skills in the workplace.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the most exciting and in-demand certifications in the current cloud computing market. Being qualified to take the AWS CSA Pro exam requires much more than exam dumps and a few how-to tutorials, it takes training, time and dedication. This in-depth course will provide you with all the required knowledge needed in order to be prepared to take the AWS CSA Pro course. Join thousands of others at the Linux Academy as they prepare to take the AWS CSA Pro exam!

This course has been developed to include everything you will need to pass the AWS Networking - Specialty exam. You are, however, expected to have an AWS Associate-level certification. A background in networking will prove to be very useful but is not necessarily required. In this course, you will build from fundamental networking concepts to deploying your own infrastructure with a heavy focus on networking best practices. You will learn advanced security concepts, as well as how to design highly available, fault-tolerant hybrid infrastructures that allow secure and reliable communication between AWS and your on-premises infrastructure. This course includes lessons, hands-on labs, walkthroughs, notecards, guides, and also interactive quizzes.

Big data is one of the most exciting and in-demand skills, powering large companies such as Google and Facebook. It is no wonder Amazon Web Services (AWS) has realeased a big data certification to catalyze the move to AWS big data solutions.

This in-depth course will provide you with the required knowledge needed to be prepared to take the AWS Big Data Specialty Certification. We will be covering the various big data products available and build highly scalable and secure big data applications.