PCO 445 - AWS Technical Essentials

0.7 Continuing Education Units (CEU). This course is not for Credit(s).

This continuing education course is designed to introduce students to Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services and common solutions. It provides students with fundamental knowledge to become more proficient in identifying AWS services and to make informed decisions about IT solutions based on business requirements, as well as to get started working on AWS. Topics to be covered include: AWS introduction and history, AWS storage, network and storage services, AWS security, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), managed services, databases (RDS, DynamoDB), AWS elasticity and management tools, and deployment and management.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the students should be able to:

1. recognize terminology and concepts as they relate to the AWS platform;
2. demonstrate the ability to navigate the AWS management console;
3. identify the foundational services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), and Amazon Elastic Block
Store (EBS);
4. explain the security measures AWS provides and key concepts of AWS Identity and Access
Management (IAM);
5. describe AWS database services, including Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Relational Database
Service (RDS); and
6. utilize AWS management tools, including Auto Scaling, Amazon CloudWatch, Elastic Load
Balancing (ELB), and AWS Trusted Advisor.