This course is scheduled to be updated on December 11, 2023, at which time your progress in the course will be disrupted. If you have completed the course prior to that date, your progress will not be impacted.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides scalable computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. In this course, you explore the building blocks used to build solutions on Amazon EC2. You learn about the components of an EC2 instance and how to configure, launch, and securely access EC2 instances. You also learn how to configure Amazon EC2 environments that are resilient and cost efficient.

• Course Level: Intermediate
• Duration: 2 Hours 30 Minutes

Activities

This course includes interactive lessons, videos, demonstrations, and knowledge check questions.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Describe the components of an Amazon EC2 instance.
• Configure the environment required to run an instance.
• Launch and securely access an EC2 instance.
• Design a resilient compute environment.
• Select the right instance purchasing option for a given workload.

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• Cloud architects
• DevOps engineers
• Operations staff
• Developers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have reviewed the following courses:

• AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials or AWS Technical Essentials
• AWS Compute Services Overview
• Amazon EC2 Basics

Course outline

                  Section 0: Course Introduction and Scenario

• Lesson 1: Introduction
• Lesson 2: Course Scenario

Section 1: Amazon EC2 Fundamentals

• Lesson 1: Amazon EC2 Knowledge Precheck
• Lesson 2: Amazon EC2 Basics

Section 2: Amazon EC2 Instance Components

• Lesson 1: Introduction to Amazon Machine Images

Section 3: Amazon EC2 Environment

• Lesson 1: Amazon EC2 Instance Tenancy
• Lesson 2: AWS Networking Fundamentals

Section 4: Launching an Amazon EC2 Instance

• Lesson 1: How to Launch an Instance
• Lesson 2: Manage Instance States

Section 5: Managing Access to Amazon EC2 Instances

• Lesson 1: Accessing Instances

Section 6: Instance Configuration Options

• Lesson 1: Working with AMIs
• Lesson 2: Storage Options
• Lesson 3: Network Options

Section 7: Designing Resilient Compute Environments

• Lesson 1: Designing for Resilience
• Lesson 2: Designing for Availability
• Lesson 3: Recovering from Failures

Section 8: Selecting the Best Purchasing Options

• Lesson 1: Identifying the Drivers of Cost
• Lesson 2: Comparing Purchasing Options

                   Section 9: Scenario Summary

• Lesson 1: Key Takeaways
• Lesson 2: Additional Resources
• Lesson 3: Feedback