Networking Essentials for Cloud Applications on AWS

Overview

Do you want to run every workload with the highest level of reliability, security, and performance in the cloud? The Networking Essentials for Cloud Applications on AWS course will help you learn to design a networking infrastructure and configure networking services for a highly available, resilient, and scalable application.

In this one-day, classroom training course an expert AWS instructor will dive deep into implementing a networking infrastructure and networking best practices to align towards AWS Well-Architected Framework. Apply what you learn to design, configure, and optimize network infrastructure on AWS.

Prerequisites

Participants should have:

• Basic knowledge of networking concepts
• Basic knowledge of AWS services
• Have taken either AWS Technical Essentials or AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

Target Audience

This course is designed for:

• Cloud, on-premises IT, and network engineers
• Cloud architects

Objectives

By the end of this course, learners will be able 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 application
• Implement the networking infrastructure according to evolving business requirements
• Implement networking best practices to align towards AWS Well-Architected Framework

Outline

Course Introduction

• Introductions
• Course overview
• Use case introduction

Networking on AWS

• 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

Load Balancing and Scaling on AWS

• 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 and Content Delivery

• 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

High Availability with Amazon Route 53

• Amazon Route 53
• Knowledge check
• Use case part three
• Hands-on lab: Achieving Fault Tolerance and Global Traffic Optimization

Course Wrap-Up

• Course reflection
• Use case labs recap
• Use case conclusion
• Course feedback survey

Exams and Assessments

There are no specific certification associated with this course.

Hands-On Learning

• Simulation
• Group exercises
• Discussions
• Role playing activities