AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials Training Course

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at cloud engineers and developers who wish to use CloudFormation to manage infrastructure resources within the AWS ecosystem.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Implement CloudFormation templates to automate infrastructure management.
• Integrate existing AWS resources into CloudFormation.
• Use StackSets to manage stacks across multiple accounts and regions.

Amazon Redshift is a petabyte-scale cloud-based data warehouse service in AWS.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn the fundamentals of Amazon Redshift.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Amazon Redshift
• Load, configure, deploy, query, and visualize data with Amazon Redshift

Audience

• Developers
• IT Professionals

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Note

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to integrate a DynamoDB NoSQL database into a web application hosted on AWS.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up the necessary development environment to start integrating data into DynamoDB.
• Integrate DynamoDB into web applications and mobile applications.
• Move data in AWS with AWS services.
• Implement operations with AWS DAX.

Audience:

Cloud engineers, Solution architects, Centre of excellence team, Window server administrators, Unix/Linux administrator, Storage administrators, network administrators, Virtualization administrators

Course Objectives:

This course is designed to teach you how to:

• Use the principal concepts and practices behind the DevOps methodology
• Design and implement an infrastructure on AWS that supports one or more DevOps development projects
• Use AWS CloudFormation and AWS OpsWorks to deploy the infrastructure necessary to create development, test, and production environments for a software development project
• Use AWS CodeCommit and understand the array of options for enabling a Continuous Integration environment on AWS
• Use AWS CodePipeline to design and implement a Continuous Integration and Delivery pipeline on AWS
• Implement several common Continuous Deployment use cases using AWS technologies, including blue/green deployment and A/B testing
• Distinguish between the array of application deployment technologies available on AWS (including AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Opsworks, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon EC2 Container Service, and Amazon EC2 Container Registry), and decide which technology best fits a given scenario
• Fine tune the applications you deliver on AWS for high performance and use AWS tools and technologies to monitor your application and environment for potential issues

This 4 day course will provide: 

• An understanding of the Core AWS services, uses, and basic architecture best practices.
• Proficiency in designing, developing, and deploying cloud-based solutions using AWS.
• Experience with developing and maintaining applications written for Amazon Simple Storage Service, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service, Amazon Simple Notification Service, Amazon Simple Workflow Service, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and AWS CloudFormation.

Audience:

Cloud engineers, Centre of excellence team,  Window server administrators, Unix/Linux administrator, Storage administrators, Network administrators , Virtualization administrators.

On Completion of this training programme participants should able to deploy and use AWS services from a Developer standpoint.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (onsite or remote) is aimed at engineers who wish to deploy and manage IoT devices on AWS.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to build an IoT platform that includes the deployment and management of a backend, gateway, and devices on top of AWS.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to install, configure, and manage AWS IoT Greengrass capabilities to create applications for various devices.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to use AWS IoT Greengrass to build, deploy, manage, secure, and monitor applications on intelligent devices.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (onsite or remote) is aimed at developers who wish to use AWS Lambda to build and deploy services and applications to the cloud, without needing to worry about provisioning the execution environment (servers, VMs and containers, availability, scalability, storage, etc.).

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Configure AWS Lambda to execute a function.
• Understand FaaS (Functions as a Service) and the advantages of serverless development.
• Build, upload and execute AWS Lambda functions.
• Integrate Lambda functions with different event sources.
• Package, deploy, monitor and troubleshoot Lambda based applications.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa provides an overview of AWS products, services and solutions. It is aimed at individuals and teams who are:

• evaluating/preparing for an initial deployment of their IT infrastructure on AWS.
• evaluating/preparing to migrate their existing IT infrastructure to the AWS public cloud.

By the end of this training, participants will have a clear understanding of the principal components that make up Amazon's cloud offering. The hands-on exercises, discussions and in-class deployments will provide participants with the practice and feedback they need to feel comfortable and prepared to carry out their own live deployments to AWS.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at engineers who wish to use AWS CloudFormation to automate the process of managing AWS cloud infrastructure.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Enable AWS services to get started managing infrastructure.
• Understand and apply the principle of "infrastructure as code".
• Improve quality and lower the costs of deploying infrastructure.
• Write AWS CloudFormation Templates using YAML.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at advanced-level professionals who wish to deepen their understanding of DevOps practices and streamline development processes using AWS Cloud9.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up and configure AWS Cloud9 for DevOps workflows.
• Implement continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Automate testing, monitoring, and deployment processes using AWS Cloud9.
• Integrate AWS services such as Lambda, EC2, and S3 into DevOps workflows.
• Utilize source control systems like GitHub or GitLab within AWS Cloud9.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level professionals who wish to learn how to effectively build, deploy, and maintain serverless applications on AWS Cloud9 and AWS Lambda.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of serverless architecture.
• Set up AWS Cloud9 for serverless application development.
• Develop, test, and deploy serverless applications using AWS Lambda.
• Integrate AWS Lambda with other AWS services such as API Gateway and S3.
• Optimize serverless applications for performance and cost efficiency.

Summery:

• Basics of IoT architecture and functions
• “Things”, “Sensors”, Internet and the mapping between business functions of IoT
• Essential of all IoT software components- hardware, firmware, middleware, cloud and mobile app
• IoT functions- Fleet manager, Data visualization, SaaS based FM and DV, alert/alarm, sensor onboarding, “thing” onboarding, geo-fencing
• Basics of IoT device communication with cloud with MQTT.
• Connecting IoT devices to AWS with MQTT (AWS IoT Core).
• Connecting AWS IoT core with AWS Lambda function for computation and data storage.
• Connecting Raspberry PI with AWS IoT core and simple data communication.
• Alerts and events
• Sensor calibration

Summary:

• Basics of IoT architecture and functions
• “Things”, “Sensors”, Internet and the mapping between business functions of IoT
• Essential of all IoT software components- hardware, firmware, middleware, cloud and mobile app
• IoT functions- Fleet manager, Data visualization, SaaS based FM and DV, alert/alarm, sensor onboarding, “thing” onboarding, geo-fencing
• Basics of IoT device communication with cloud with MQTT.
• Connecting IoT devices to AWS with MQTT (AWS IoT Core).
• Connecting AWS IoT core with AWS Lambda function for computation and data storage using DynamoDB.
• Connecting Raspberry PI with AWS IoT core and simple data communication.
• Hands on with Raspberry PI and AWS IoT Core to build a smart device.
• Sensor data visualization and communication with web interface.

EKS is a self-managed Kubernetes-as-a-service offering from AWS. EKS is fully scalable and customizable and allows a Kubernetes deployment to mimic and/or integrate with an existing on-premise Kubernetes setup.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to set up and manage a production-scale container environment using Kubernetes on EKS. 

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Configure and manage Kubernetes on EKS
• Migrate an existing Kubernetes environment from on-premise to AWS cloud
• Integrate Kubernetes with third-party continuous integration (CI) software
• Ensure high availability and disaster recovery in Kubernetes
• Understand and adopt the tools available to efficiently manage EKS

Audience

• Developers
• System Administrators
• DevOps Engineers

Format of the Course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice in a live-lab environment.

Note

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.