Networking Essentials for Cloud Applications on AWS
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Learning Track
Networking and Content Delivery
Delivery methods
On-Site, Virtual
Duration
1 day
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
- Implement the networking infrastructure according to evolving business
- Implement networking best practices to align towards AWS Well-Architected
Activities
This course includes presentations, demonstrations, knowledge checks, and three hands-on labs that revolve around a use case story.
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
Course outline
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Amazon Route 53
- Knowledge check
- Use case part three
- Hands-on lab: Achieving Fault Tolerance and Global Traffic Optimization
- Course reflection
- Use case labs recap
- Use case conclusion
- Course feedback survey
