Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2: An Introduction, Gain Basic Understanding on AWS Virtual Cloud Servers.
Course Description
Overall Course Objective:
Gain a fair introductory level understanding on AWS EC2.
Pre-requisite: A learner needs to have good understanding on Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Computer Networks and IP Addressing. It is also assumed that a learner has an idea on what is Amazon Web Services (AWS), as this course does NOT provide an overview or introduction to AWS. It is also assumed that a learner knows how to create an AWS account and have an active AWS account. A computer with an Internet connection is required.
Learning Outcomes:
1.     Understand what is AWS EC2.
2.     Learn how to deploy virtual network and virtual server on a cloud platform.
3.     Learn how to monitor performance of virtual servers.
4.     Learn how to install web-server on virtual cloud server.
5.     Learn how to allocate IP addresses to virtual cloud servers.
Course Outline:
–Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Introduction to AWS EC2.
–Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Creating key-pair.
–Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Launch a virtual server.
–Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Monitor virtual servers.
–Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Deploying virtual servers in different geographic location.
–Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Install webserver on virtual server.
–Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Allocate IP addresses to virtual servers.
–Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Demonstration on how to launch a WordPress website quickly with few clicks.
What a Student will learn?
This is a basic course to understand the concepts AWS EC2 in general. This course aims to equip a learner with skills on EC2 to such an extent, so that a learner can master on EC2 through Self-Directed Learning once they successfully complete this course. This course shows how to build virtual cloud infrastructure on AWS. This is a basic and beginner level course on EC2.
