AWSome Day Edmonton


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This free, one-day training will provide a step-by-step introduction to the core AWS services for compute, storage, database, and networking.

AWS technical experts will demonstrate key features and use cases, share best practices, walk through technical demos, and be available to answer your questions one-on-one.

AWSome Day is ideal for IT managers, system engineers, system administrators, and architects who are eager to learn more about cloud computing and how to get started on the AWS Cloud.

Date

Tuesday,
July 24, 2018

Time

10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration at: 10:00 am

Location

The Westin Edmonton, North Foyer, 10135 100th Street NW, Edmonton, AB, T5J 0N7, Canada

Agenda

Time

Session

10:00am – 10:30am Registration & Ask an AWS Expert
10:30am – 10:45am Welcome
10:45am – 11:20am AWS History

  • The history of AWS
  • AWS global infrastructure
  • AWS Management Console (including a demo)
11:20am – 12:15pm AWS Infrastructure, Part 1

  • Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) concepts, including instance types and families, AMIs, and metadata and user data
  • Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) storage concepts, including buckets, objects, and lifecycle management
  • Amazon S3 demo
12:15pm – 1:15pm Lunch & Ask an AWS Expert
1:15pm – 2:30pm AWS Infrastructure, Part 2

  • Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) concepts, including volumes, snapshots, and performance
  • Amazon EC2 instance store concepts, including SSD, swap volumes, and optimizing disk performance
  • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) concepts, include subnets, security, and networking
2:30pm – 3:10pm Security, Identity, and Access Management

  • AWS Shared Responsibility Model
  • Security measures provided by AWS
  • AWS identity and Access Management (IAM) concepts, including users, groups, roles, and policies
  • IAM Demo
3:10pm – 3:30pm Break
3:30pm – 4:15pm
AWS Databases

  • Database models (SQL vs. NoSQL)
  • Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) concepts, including database instances, security groups, and parameter and option groups
  • Amazon DynamoDB concepts, including data model and supported operations
  • Provisioned Throughout
4:15pm – 4:55pm
AWS Elasticity & Management Tools

  • Auto Scaling concepts, including launch configurations, Auto Scaling groups, and scaling lifecycle
  • Elastic Load Balancing concepts, including request routing and Load Balancer Types
  • AWS Management Tools, including Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Trusted Advisor
4:55pm – 5:00pm
Closing Remarks