This document provides an overview and introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS). It describes the history of AWS and Amazon, the AWS global infrastructure including regions and availability zones, core AWS services like compute, storage, database and analytics offerings, and advantages of AWS like scalability, flexibility and pay-as-you-go pricing model. The objectives of the course are also outlined which cover foundational AWS services, security, databases, management tools and more.

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Version 4.1
AWS Technical Essentials
Getting Started on AWS

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Course Objectives
This course teaches you how to:
• Recognize terminology and concepts as they relate to the AWS platform and
navigate the AWS Management Console.
• Understand 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).
• Understand the security measures AWS provides and key concepts of AWS
Identity and Access Management (IAM).
• Understand AWS database services, including Amazon DynamoDB and
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).
• Understand AWS management tools, including Auto Scaling, Amazon
CloudWatch, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and AWS Trusted Advisor.
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Module 1
Introduction and History of
AWS

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Amazon History
1994: Jeff Bezos
incorporated the
company.
1995:
Amazon.com
launched its
online
bookstore.
2005:
Amazon
Publishing
was
launched.
2006:
Amazon
Web
Services
(AWS)
was
launched.
2007:
Kindle
was
launched.
2011:
Amazon
Fresh was
launched.
2012: Amazon
Game Studios
was launched.
2013:
Amazon
Art was
launched.
2014:
Amazon
Prime
Now was
launched.
2015:
Amazon
Home
Services and
Amazon
Echo were
launched.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)
ComputeMessaging
Mobile
App Services
Database
Networking
Development and
Management Tools
Payments
VPC
On-Demand Workforce
Analytics Content Delivery
Storage
Enable businesses and developers to
use web services to build scalable,
sophisticated applications.
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AWS Rapid Pace of Innovation
2009
48
159
722
82
2011 2013 2015
New Features/Services
Launched
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2,420
AWS Direct
Connect
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS GovCloud (US)
AWS CloudTrail
AWS CloudHSM
Amazon WorkSpaces
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon
AppStream
Amazon SNS
AWS Identity and Access
Management
Amazon Route 53
AWS Import/Export
Amazon SWF
Amazon Redshift
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon CloudSearch
AWS Data
Pipeline
AWS Certificate Manager
AWS KMS
AWS Config
Amazon RDS
for Aurora
Amazon WorkDocs
AWS
Directory
Service
AWS CodeCommit
AWS CodePipeline
AWS Service
Catalog
Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Amazon EFS
Amazon API
Gateway
Amazon Machine
Learning
AWS Device Farm
AWS WAF
Elasticsearch Service
Amazon QuickSight
AWS Import/Export
Amazon RDS for MariaDB
Amazon Inspector
AWS IoT
Amazon EC2 Container
Registry
Amazon
ElastiCache
AWS
CloudFormation
Amazon Mobile
Analytics
AWS Mobile Hub
AWS Storage Gateway
AWS OpsWorks
Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Amazon SES
Amazon EC2
Container Service
Amazon Cognito
AWS CodeDeploy
Amazon Glacier
Amazon WorkMail
AWS Lambda
As of 1 August 2016
Services and Features
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AWS Customers
Enterprise Customers
Startup Customers
Public Sector Customers
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Advantages and Benefits of AWS Cloud Computing
Trade capital expense
for variable expense.
Benefit from massive
economies of scale.
Stop guessing
capacity.
Go global in minutes.
Increase speed and
agility.
Stop spending money on
running and maintaining
data centers.
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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide
Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide,” Lydia Leong, Gregor Petri, Bob Gill, Mike Dorosh, 03 August 2016. This Magic Quadrant graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of
a larger research note and should be evaluated in the context of the entire report. The Gartner report is available at https://aws.amazon.com/resources/analyst-reports/ . Gartner does not endorse any vendor,
product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the
opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of
merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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AWS Core Infrastructure and Services
Security
Network
Security
Network
Security Groups NACLs Access Mgmt
VPCVPC
EC2 “Classic”
“Public
”
ELB
On-Demand
Provision
Traditional Infrastructure Amazon Web Services
Servers
AMI Amazon EC2 InstancesOn-Premises Servers
Security
Security Groups Network ACLs AWS IAMFirewalls ACLs Administrators
Storage
and
Database
RDBMSDAS SAN NAS Amazon
EBS
Amazon
EFS
Amazon
S3
Amazon
RDS
Networking
VPCELBRouter Network Pipeline Switch

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Infrastructure Regions Edge LocationsAvailability Zones
Foundation
Services
Compute
(Virtual, Auto-scaling and
Load Balancing)
Networking
Applications
Virtual
Desktops
Collaboration and Sharing
Platform
Services
AWS Cloud Computing
Databases
Relational
NoSQL
Caching
Analytics
Cluster
Computing
Real-time
Data
Warehouse
Data
Workflows
App Services
Queuing
Orchestration
App Streaming
Transcoding
Email
Search
Deployment and
Management
Containers
Dev/ops Tools
Resource Templates
Usage Tracking
Monitoring and Logs
Mobile Services
Identity
Sync
Mobile Analytics
Notifications
Storage
(Object, Block and Archive)

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Compute Network Storage
Security &
Identity
Applications
AWS Foundation Services
Amazon
EC2
AWS
Lambda
Amazon EC2
Container
Service
AWS
Elastic
Beanstalk
Elastic
Load
Balancing
Amazon
VPC
AWS
Direct
Connect
Amazon
Route 53
Amazon
S3
Amazon
CloudFront
Amazon
Elastic File
System
Amazon
Glacier
AWS
Storage
Gateway
AWS
Import/Export
AWS Identity and
Access Management
AWS
Directory
Service
AWS Cloud
HSM
AWS
KMS
AWS WAF
Amazon
WorkDocs
Amazon
WorkSpaces
Auto
Scaling
Amazon
WorkMail
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Databases Analytics App Services
Management
Tools
Developer
Tools
Mobile
Services
Internet of
Things
AWS Platform Services
Amazon
RDS
Amazon
DynamoDB
Amazon
ElastiCache
Amazon
Redshift
Amazon
EMR
AWS
Data Pipeline
Amazon
Kinesis
Amazon
Machine
Learning
Amazon
Elasticsearch
Service
Amazon
API Gateway
Amazon
AppStream
Amazon
CloudSearch
Amazon
Elastic
Transcoder
Amazon
SES
Amazon
SQS
Amazon
SWF
Amazon
CloudWatch
AWS
CloudFormation
AWS
CloudTrail
AWS
Config
AWS
OpsWorks
AWS
Service
Catalog
AWS
CodeCommit
AWS
CodeDeploy
AWS
CodePipeline
AWS
Device Farm
Amazon
Mobile
Analytics
Amazon
Cognito
Amazon
SNS
Mobile Hub
AWS IoT
Trusted
Advisor
AWS Database
Migration Service
AWS
Certificate
Manager
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AWS Global Infrastructure
Regions
• Geographic locations
• Consist of at least two Availability Zones
Availability Zones
• Clusters of data centers
• Isolated from failures in other Availability Zones
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AWS Global Infrastructure
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AWS Global Infrastructure
At least 2 Availability Zones
per region.
Examples:
• US East (N. Virginia)
• us-east-1a
• us-east-1b
• us-east-1c
• us-east-1d
• us-east-1e
• Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
• ap-northeast-1a
• ap-northeast-1b
• ap-northeast-1c
Note: Conceptual drawing only. The number of Availability Zones (AZ) may vary.
US East (VA)
AZ - A AZ - B
AZ - C AZ - D
AZ - E
Asia Pacific
(Tokyo)
AZ - A AZ - B
AZ - C
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High Availability Using Multi-AZ Deployments
Availability
Zone - A
Availability
Zone - B
Availability
Zone - C
Region
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AWS Global Infrastructure
50+ AWS Edge locations - local points of presence
commonly supporting AWS services like:
• Amazon Route 53
• Amazon CloudFront
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