LEARNING PATH: AWS: Database Administration with AWS

Course details

Amazon Web Services is a bundled remote computing service that provides cloud computing infrastructure over the Internet with storage, bandwidth, and customized support for application programming interfaces. AWS provides a broad range of services to help you build and deploy big data analytics applications quickly and easily. AWS gives you fast access to flexible and low cost IT resources. Implementing these services to efficiently administer your cloud environments is a core task. So, if you're interested to master the administration techniques of AWS, then go for this Learning Path. Packts Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it.

The highlights of this Learning Path are:

• Install, configure, and administer computing, storage, and networking in the AWS cloud
• Automate your infrastructure and control every aspect of it through infrastructure as code
• Learn to manage the tools in AWS such as e-mail alarms, dashboard and budget

Lets take a quick look at your learning journey. This Learning Path will help you build and administer your cloud environment with AWS. Youll begin with the AWS fundamentals and learn how to manage multiple accounts to set up consolidated billing. Youll then learn to set up reliable and fast hosting for static websites, share data between running instances and backup your data for compliance.

Moving on, youll learn how to use the computer service to enable consistent and fast instance provisioning, and will see how to provision storage volumes and auto-scale an application server. Next, youll discover how to effectively use the networking and database service of AWS. Youll also learn about the different management tools of AWS along with securing your AWS cloud.

Further, youll begin with the monitoring and alerting which is the critical part of using AWS-based infrastructure. Next, you will see database services provided by AWS cloud. Youll then learn networking which is foundational component of using other AWS services such as EC2, RDS, and others. Moving on, youll learn security which is one of the most critical areas of using the cloud. Finally, youll learn to estimate the costs for your cloud.

By the end of this Learning Path, youll be able to easily administer your AWS cloud with networking, security and database services.

Meet Your Experts:

We have combined the best works of the following esteemed authors to ensure that your learning journey is smooth:

• Lucas Chan has been working in tech since 1995 in a variety of development, systems admin, and DevOps roles. He is currently a senior consultant and engineer at Versent and technical director at Stax. He's been running production workloads on AWS for over 10 years. Hes also a member of the APAC AWS Warriors program and holds all five of the available AWS certifications.

• Rowan Udellhas been working in development and operations for 15 years. He has held a variety of positions, such as SRE, front-end developer, back-end developer, consultant, technical lead, and team leader. His travels have seen him work in start-ups and enterprises in the finance, education, and web industries in Australia and Canada. He currently works as a senior consultant with Versent, an AWS Advanced Partner in Sydney. He specializes in serverless applications and architectures on AWS and contributes actively in the Serverless Framework community.