Step by Step: Highly Available, Scalable & Secure AWS Stack

🎉 Step by Step: Highly Available, Scalable & Secure AWS Stack 🌟

Course Headline: Build a complete AWS stack using EC2, load balancer, Auto-Scaling groups, EBS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, IAM & VPC.

🚀 Course Description: Dive deep into the core Amazon Web Services (AWS) services with a focus on practical implementation and skill development. This course is designed to take you from a single Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance running a simple web application to a robust, highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable, and secure AWS stack. With 8 comprehensive modules and a capstone project, you'll have hands-on experience with the necessary code and commands to build and deploy your own AWS infrastructure.

What You'll Learn:

📚 AWS Services Explored:

• Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2): Master the setup and management of virtual servers.
• Elastic Block Store (EBS): Learn to attach storage volumes to your instances for persistent data storage.
• Relational Database Service (RDS): Understand how to set up and scale relational databases.
• Simple Storage Service (S3): Gain skills in handling object storage for backup and archival.
• DynamoDB: Explore the power of NoSQL database services.
• Identity and Access Management (IAM): Secure your cloud resources with proper access controls.
• ElastiCache: Implement in-memory caching to enhance database performance.
• CloudFront: Deliver content quickly and securely to users globally.
• Elastic Beanstalk: Simplify the deployment of applications on the AWS platform.
• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC): Design and implement your own secure network within AWS.

🏭 Key AWS Infrastructure Concepts:

• AWS Regions & Availability Zones: Learn how AWS is structured globally to ensure high availability.
• EC2 & EBS: Set up instances and their storage with best practices in mind.
• Application Load Balancers, Sticky Sessions, Auto-Scaling Groups: Ensure your application can handle varying loads by scaling automatically.
• RDS Read Replicas & Multi-AZ Deployment: Achieve higher availability for your databases.
• VPC Service Endpoints, Security Groups, NAT Gateways: Secure and segment your network traffic.

🔒 Security Best Practices:

• Use separate root and data EBS volumes to maintain a clear separation of concerns.
• Regularly create snapshots of your EBS data volumes for backup and quick recovery.
• Create AMIs of your application servers for faster deployment and consistent configurations.
• Deploy your application across multiple instances and zones to increase its availability.
• Centralize sessions, content, and databases for better management and accessibility.
• Utilize auto-scaling groups to ensure your application can scale seamlessly with demand.
• Offload database requests by using read replicas or in-memory databases like ElastiCache.
• Implement a Content Delivery Network (CDN) like CloudFront for efficient content delivery.
• Protect private content by using signed URLs to manage access.
• Follow the principle of least privilege when configuring security.
• Automate frequent deployments with an appropriate platform or service.

🛠️ Best Practices for Web Application Functions:

• Implement robust session management strategies.
• Leverage AWS to ensure content delivery is fast, secure, and efficient.
• Secure your content effectively using AWS best practices.
• Manage databases with high availability, durability, and scalability in mind.

Ready to embark on this AWS adventure? Join us and transform your knowledge into a scalable, available, and secure cloud architecture! 🚀💻