Networking Essentials for Cloud Applications on AWS

Length 1 day

Course overview

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Why study this course

This one-day course provides a comprehensive understanding of networking concepts and services within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environment. Designed for novice and experienced networking engineers, this course covers essential topics, best practices, and hands-on labs. Its purpose is to equip learners with the knowledge and skills that are required to design, configure, and optimise network infrastructure on AWS.

This course includes presentations, demonstrations, knowledge checks, and three hands-on labs that revolve around a use case story.

Aligns to certification

AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty

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What you’ll learn

This course is designed to teach participants how to:

Design a networking infrastructure for a scalable production application, considering design trade-offs between different networking services.
Configure networking services for a highly available, resilient, and scalable application.
Implement the networking infrastructure according to evolving business requirements.
Implement networking best practices to align towards AWS Well-Architected Framework.

AWS at Lumify Work

Lumify Work is an official AWS Training Partner for Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines. Through our Authorised AWS Instructors, we can provide you with a learning path that’s relevant to you and your organisation, so you can get more out of the cloud. We offer virtual and face-to-face classroom-based training to help you build your cloud skills and enable you to achieve industry-recognised AWS Certification.

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Who is the course for?

This course is intended for:

Newly hired cloud engineers
On-premises IT engineers
Cloud architects
Cloud engineers
Network engineers

Course subjects

Module 0: Course Introduction

Introductions
Course overview
Use case introduction

Module 1: Networking on AWS

IP addressing
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) fundamentals
Subnets
Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM)
Elastic Network Interfaces
Elastic IP addressing
Route table
Internet and NAT gateways
Basic traffic filtering mechanisms for a VPC
Knowledge check

Module 2: Load Balancing and Scaling on AWS

Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
Cross-zone load balancing
Auto Scaling group (ASG) basics
Knowledge check
Use case part one
Hands-on lab: Building a Multi-Availability Zone VPC Architecture

Module 3: VPC Interconnectivity and Content Delivery

VPC interconnectivity
VPC peering
VPC Transit Gateway
VPC endpoints
Edge locations
AWS Global Accelerator
Knowledge check
Use case part two
Hands-on lab: Accelerating Performance with Amazon CloudFront

Module 4: High Availability with Amazon Route 53

Amazon Route 53
Knowledge check
Use case part three
Hands-on lab: Achieving Fault Tolerance and Global Traffic Optimisation

Module 5: Course Wrap-Up

Course reflection
Use case labs recap
Use case conclusion
Course feedback survey

Please note: This is an emerging technology course. Course outline is subject to change as needed.

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

Basic knowledge of networking concepts
Basic knowledge of AWS services
AWS Technical Essentials or Cloud Practitioner Essentials

Terms & Conditions

The supply of this course by Lumify Work is governed by the booking terms and conditions. Please read the terms and conditions carefully before enrolling in this course, as enrolment in the course is conditional on acceptance of these terms and conditions.