What you'll learn:
- Understand basic EC2 and Load Balancer concepts and create them in your AWS account.
- Downloadable PDF Slides and Study Guides for many key lessons!
- Learn about AWS Regions and Availability Zones, how to place EC2 instances and create high availability using Load Balancers.
- Connect to an EC2 Instance, take a volume snapshot, create a custom AMI, and stop, launch, and terminate instances.
- Learn every step in the EC2 creation process, including networking, storage, user data scripts, and more.
- Frequent quizzes to check your knowledge as you go!
"Clear, concise, direct, and professionally prepared." -June
"Great coverage of some of the more low level elements of the EC2 service without going into overwhelming detail. All you need to get started and up and running with the basic but important fundamentals of EC2." -Daran
The contents of this course are applicable to multiple certifications, including the AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Sysops Administrator, and AWS Cloud Practitioner.
Are you brand new to AWS EC2 or AWS Load Balancers? Have you found that many of the training resources out there use complex technical jargon that make it difficult to understand the basic concepts? If you need to get a strong understanding of AWS EC2 and Load Balancers quickly and clearly, this is the course for you.
I have taught hundreds of thousands of students across a variety of platforms, and Ithink anyone brand new to these concepts love this course.Most lectures in this courseare 5 - 10minutes long. This course gives you anunderstanding of how EC2 and Load Balancers work, how they billed, and how to create and optimize your own configurations!
If you need to learn the basics of EC2, Network Load Balancer (NLB) Application Load Balancing (ALB) or Gateway Load Balancers (GLB), this course is the ideal starting point.
You can begin this course now, and in a few short hours you will have a strong understanding. So don't wait - give this course a try now and lean how to manage EC2 and Load balancers!
EC2 Lessons include:
Intro to EC2
Understanding VMs, Hosts, and Hypervisors
Managed and Unmanaged Servcies, and how EC2 fits in
Regions and Availability Zones
EC2 Instance Types
Multiple lessons demonstrating every step of creating an EC2 instance, including
Choosing an AMI
Choosing an instance type
Configuring network settings
Configuring storage volumes
Advanced Settings
User Data Scripts
Key Pairs and Security Groups
Managing EC2 instances by resizing, stopping, starting, and terminating
A deep dive on EC2 pricing and how you can save money!
Load Balancing Lessons include:
Introduction to Load Balancers
Create Target Groups
Create and Verify the operation of Network Load Balancers (NLB)
Internet-Facing vs. Internal Elastic Load Balancers (ELB)
Health Checks, Availability, and Simulating Failures
Understand Target Group Nodes and how they work across Availability Zones
Cross-Zone Load Balancing
Create and Verify the operation of Application Load Balancers (ALB)
Create an Application Load Balancer and Configure Rules
Test the Application Load Balancer and Simulate Failures
Understanding the Gateway Load Balancer
