Primer for the AWS Cloud: Networking

Course details

An excellent networkingbackground is a prerequisite skillfor the cloudadministrator. Upon completion of this course, you will havewhat it takes, from a networking perspective, to be effective on day one, managing any cloud environment.

Wehaverounded upthe networking concepts encounteredby the newcloud administrator and created a fun, highly illustratedcourse around it. The Primer for the AWS Cloud: Networkingis an effective prerequisite to any course on cloud administration and it can standon its own as a useful review of relevant networking topics.

Skills coveredinclude:

• port number types and uses
• decodingIPv4,IPv6 and MAC addresses
• representingIP addresses in the various formats
• grouping IP addresses intoCIDR blocks
• partitioning networks
• proper deployment ofnetworking services such as DNS, DHCP, NAT.

To reinforce the learning, we provide examples and demonstrations, using theAmazonWebServices (AWS) cloud platform, however the skills covered in this course are transferable to any cloud environment available today.