PG Certificate Program in Cloud Computing

2.1 AWS's Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Block Store Types for AWS EC2 and the relevant features
Core Knowledge - EBS backed vs Instance Store backed EC2 instances
EBS Snapshots
EBS Encryption
Changing the Encryption state of an EBS volume
Sharing EBS Snapshots
EBS snapshots
Creating and Registering AMIs from Block Store
Creating AMIs from EBS-Backed EC2 Instances
EBS Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) and EBS volumes7:46

2.2 Elastic Load Balancer (ELB

Introduction to ELB
How ELB works
ELB health checks
ELB Cross Zone Load Balancing
ELB Positioning - Internet-facing vs Internal ELB
Refresher for TCP IP Packet flow
ELB - Security Group
Core Knowledge - ELB - Network ACLs
ELB - Layer 4 TCP/SSL Listeners
Layer 7 HTTP/HTTPS Listeners
ELB & Sticky Sessions (Session Affinity)
ELB Security policy for SSL/HTTPS sessions
SSL/HTTPS authentication - Client and Server Certificates
ELB Connection Draining
ELB Monitoring
ELB Pre-Warming & Scaling
Testing your ELB scaling (or applications servers by ELB).

2.3 Auto Scaling

Auto Scaling Introduction - The problem statement
Auto Scaling Components
Auto Scaling Features
Auto Scaling Availability Zone Rebalance feature
Adding/Detaching EC2 instances to/from Auto Scaling Groups
Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing Service
Auto Scaling Health Checks - SNS Notifications & Merging Auto Scaling groups
Auto Scaling policies (plans)
Auto Scaling – Monitoring

2.4 Relational Database Service (RDS)

Introduction to Relational Database
Introduction to Non-Relational Databases (No-SQL)
RDS - Types and Examples of Non-Relational Databases
RDS - Introduction lecture to the AWS RDS Service
RDS - Multi-AZ option
RDS - Multi-AZ part II
RDS - Automatic Backups
RDS - Manual Backups (Snapshots)
RDS - Subnet Groups4
RDS instance security and encryption
RDS - Billing and Reserved DB instances
RDS - Read Replicas of RDS instances
Read Replicas - Promoting a Read Replica
RDS – Scaling