The Good Parts of AWS: Cutting Through the Clutter

Course Overview

This is not your typical AWS reference course. You won’t find most of the knowledge that's shared here in the AWS docs. The goal here is to help you realize which AWS features you’d be foolish not to use — features that have passed the test of time by being at the backbone of most thin... See More

How You'll Learn

Hands-on coding environments

You don’t get better at swimming by watching others. Coding is no different. Practice as you learn with live code environments inside your browser.

Faster than videos

Videos are holding you back. The average video tutorial is spoken at 150 words per minute, while you can read at 250. That‘s why our courses are text-based.

No set-up required

Start learning immediately instead of fiddling with SDKs and IDEs. It‘s all on the cloud.

Progress you can show

Built in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.

Hands-on coding environments

You don’t get better at swimming by watching others. Coding is no different. Practice as you learn with live code environments inside your browser.

Faster than videos

Videos are holding you back. The average video tutorial is spoken at 150 words per minute, while you can read at 250. That‘s why our courses are text-based.

No set-up required

Start learning immediately instead of fiddling with SDKs and IDEs. It‘s all on the cloud.

Progress you can show

Built in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.

Course Contents

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1. Before Getting Started

What is this course about?

The Default Heuristic

2. Part 1: The Good Parts

Database: DynamoDB

Storage: S3

Compute: EC2

Compute: EC2 Auto Scaling

Compute: Lambda

Networking & Content Delivery: ELB

Networking & Content Delivery: Route 53

Management & Governance: CloudFormation

Application Integration: SQS

Media Service: Kinesis

Quiz - Basic AWS Services

3. Part 2: The Bootstrap Guide

Starting from Scratch: Basic Web Application

Starting from Scratch: Manual AWS Infrastructure

Infrastructure as Code: Create CloudFormation Stack

Infrastructure as Code: Deploy CloudFormation Stack

Automatic Deployments: CodeBuild

Automatic Deployments: Install CodeDeploy Agent on EC2

Automatic Deployments: Create a CodePipeline

Load Balancing: Add a second EC2 Instance

Load Balancing: Add an Application Load Balancer

Scaling: Add an Auto Scaling Group

Scaling: Remove Instances

Production: Add Stack Name to our Application

Production: Create Staging Stack

Production: Create Production Stack

Custom Domains: Register Domain with Route 53

Custom Domains: Map our Domain to Load Balancers

HTTPS: Create a TLS Certificate

HTTPS: Add an HTTPS Endpoint

HTTPS: Make the Application Speak HTTPS

Network Security: Set up SSM for SSH Access

Network Security: Add Private Subnets with NAT Gateway

Network Security: Enabling HTTPS port in Public Subnets

4. Conclusion

Wrap up!