Cloud Computing Training

Duration : 3 Days

Date : 21, 22, 23 Sep 2023

Overview

• Once the training is completed the participants will have a theoretical understanding of cloud computing and will be in a position to assess their application objectives and decide how to deploy their application in the cloud with ease
• Participants will get a good understanding of the important aspects of cloud, the tooling used, and how to engineer their applications to work in the cloud
• Have a sound understanding of the various AWS and how to leverage AWS to build and deploy applications in the cloud.

Prerequisite

• Knowledge of Operating Systems, Virtualization, Networking 
• Understanding the Difference Between Public and Private Cloud Computing

Course Contents

Introduction to Cloud Computing

• A quick history 
• Client Server Computing Concepts 
• Introduction – Cloud Computing 
• Why Cloud Computing? 
• Benefits of Cloud Computing

Networking Basics

• Understanding the Networking Concepts 
• OSI Model 
• LAN, WAN, MAN 
• Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Virtualization

• Introduction to Virtualization 
• Role of Virtualization in Cloud Computing 
• Types of Virtualization 
• Examples of Virtualization 
• Benefits of Virtualization 
• Virtualization terminologies 
• Emulator 
• Hypervisor 
• Backup and Snapshotting 
• Failover 
• Examples of Virtualization 
• VMware 
• VirtualBox 
• Qemu / KVM

Types of Cloud Computing

• Software as a Service 
• Platform as a Service 
• Infrastructure as a Service 
• Other XaaS’s

Characteristics of Cloud Computing

• API based access 
• Cost 
• Device independence 
• Virtualization 
• Multitenancy Cloud Deployment Models 
• Public Cloud 
• Private Cloud 
• Hybrid Cloud 
• When to choose what?

Cloud Computing Issues

• Privacy 
• Compliance 
• Legality 
• Security

Cloud Architectures

• Stateless architectures 
• Handling failures in the cloud

Cloud Computing – Analysing the Space

• Major cloud providers 
• Important cloud related software

PAAS – Deep Dive

• Benefits of PAAS 
• Issues with PAAS 
• PAAS Examples 
• Google AppEngine 
• Heroku 
• Windows Azure

Web Application Engineering in the Cloud

• DNS 
• Load Balancer 
• Web Servers 
• Application Servers 
• Scaling web and application servers 
• Data stores/Cloud Storage 
• Relational Databases 
• NoSQL databases 
• Scaling datastores 
• Storing and analysing unstructured data in the cloud 
• Data Analysis and the Hadoop Ecosystem 
• Eliminating SPOFs

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Introduction to the AWS products 
• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) 
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) 
• Elastic Block Storage (EBS) 
• Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) 
• Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) 
• Amazon DynamoDB 
• Auto Scaling 
• Amazon ElastiCache 

IAAS – Deep Dive

• Understanding cloud terminologies 
• Compute 
• Storage 
• Networking 
• Other services on the periphery 
• IAAS Providers 
• Amazon AWS 
• Google Compute Engine 
• Elastic Compute Cloud Essentials 
• Introduction to the AWS Management Console 
• Regions & Availability Zones – How to choose the right one?
• AMI [Amazon Machine Images] 
• Setting up security 
• Finding the right AMI 
• How to choose the right instance type? – Launching instance 
• Security via Key Pairs 
• Working with the Security Group 
• Assigning Elastic IPs 
• Logging into the instance 

EC2 Instances

• Deciding between 
• On-demand instances 
• Spot instances 
• Reserved instances 
• EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace

Working with AMIs

• Choosing the right AMI 
• Creating your own AMI 
• Deciding what goes into an AMI

Elastic Block Store (EBS)

• Creating and deleting volumes 
• Attaching and detaching volumes 
• Mounting and Unmounting the attached volume 
• Creating snapshots

Simple Storage Service (S3)

• Creating and deleting buckets 
• Adding objects to buckets 
• Getting objects 
• Deleting objects

Relational Database Service (RDS)

• Selecting the Engine 
• Configuring the Database Engine 
• Creating your Database 
• Setting up automatic backups 
• Authorizing access to the DataBase through DataBase Security Groups

CloudWatch

• Debugging cloud related issues 
• Monitoring the AWS Service Health Dashboard 
• Monitoring with CloudWatch 
• Getting statistics for a specific EC2 instance 
• Getting aggregated statistics 
• Metrics for other AWS Services and related namespaces 
• Setting up notifications 
• Using command-line tools

IAM

• Users and Groups 
• Permissions and Policies 
• Roles 
• Creating admin groups through UI & the command line 
• Elastic Beanstalk 
• Simple Notification Service (SNS) 
• Simple Email Service (SES) 
• Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Case Studies – Amazon Web Services

• Building a simple web application in the cloud 
• Building a community-based photo / video sharing site 
• Building an ad-serving site in the cloud