Cloud Computing

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Subjects

1. Virtualisation
2. Cloud Concepts + AWS
3. Your first AWS account
4. The web console
5. The command-line interface
6. Amazon Resource Names (ARNs)
7. Identity & Access Management (IAM)
8. Networking
9. Network security basics
10. EC2
11. RDS
12. Route53
13. S3

Curated Materials

Virtualisation

• https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/virtualization/

Cloud Concepts + AWS

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/aws-overview/introduction.html
  • Skip the "Are you Well-Architected?" section as it adds no value. Simply move onto the next page, "What is cloud computing?"
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/glos-chap.html

Your first AWS account

• Create an account:
  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/manage-acct-creating.html
• Then understand best pratices re: root user:
  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/best-practices-root-user.html
    • Understand what the root user is for:
      • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/root-user-tasks.html
• Sign in to your root user account:
  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/root-user-sign-in.html
• Now enable MFA:
  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/root-user-mfa.html
• And create a non-root user:
  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_users_create.html#id_users_create_console
    • Give them console access
    • Give them the Adminstrator role
    • Setup MFA immediatley

The web console

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsconsolehelpdocs/latest/gsg/learn-whats-new.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsconsolehelpdocs/latest/gsg/select-region.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsconsolehelpdocs/latest/gsg/change-password.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsconsolehelpdocs/latest/gsg/using-search.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsconsolehelpdocs/latest/gsg/billinginfo.html

The command-line interface

• What is it: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-welcome.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-prereqs.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-quickstart.html

using:

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-usage-help.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-usage-commandstructure.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-services-ec2-instances.html

Amazon Resource Names (ARNs)

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-arns-and-namespaces.html

Identity & Access Management (IAM)

• Introduction: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/introduction.html
• Architecture: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/intro-structure.html
• IAM: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/introduction_identity-management.html
• IAM Users: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/introduction_access-management.html
• IAM ABAC: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/introduction_attribute-based-access-control.html
• IAM Identities: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id.html
• Policies and Permissions: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies.html
• Understanding permissions granted by a policy: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_understand.html
• Creating policies: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_create.html

Networking

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-regions-availability-zones.html
• It all starts with a VPC: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/what-is-amazon-vpc.html
• How it works: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/configure-your-vpc.html
• Subnets: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/configure-subnets.html
• Route Tables: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Route_Tables.html
• Connecting your VPC: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/extend-intro.html
• Internet gateways: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Internet_Gateway.html
• NAT Gateways: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpc-nat-gateway.html#nat-gateway-basics

Network security basics

• SGs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_SecurityGroups.html
• NACLs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpc-network-acls.html

EC2

• What: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/concepts.html
• Best pratices: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-best-practices.html
• Instance types: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance-types.html
• On-demand instances: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-on-demand-instances.html
• Reserved instances: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-reserved-instances.html
• AMIs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AMIs.html
• Instances + AMIs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-instances-and-amis.html
• IPs + instances: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-instance-addressing.html
• Key pairs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-key-pairs.html
• Connecting to Linux: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstances.html
• Connecting to Windows: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/connecting_to_windows_instance.html
• First tutorial: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EC2_GetStarted.html

RDS

• What: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Welcome.html#Welcome.Concepts
• Best practices: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_BestPractices.html
• DB types: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Concepts.DBInstanceClass.html
• Multi-AZ: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Concepts.MultiAZSingleStandby.html
• First tutorial: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_GettingStarted.CreatingConnecting.MySQL.html

Route53

• What: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/Welcome.html
• Domain registration: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/welcome-domain-registration.html
• DNS (refresh): https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/welcome-dns-service.html
• Domain name formatting: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/DomainNameFormat.html
• Best practices: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/best-practices-dns.html

S3

• What: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/Welcome.html
• Security: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/security-best-practices.html
• Buckets: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/UsingBucket.html
• Objects: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/UsingObjects.html
• Versioning: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/Versioning.html
• Lifecycle management: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/object-lifecycle-mgmt.html

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