AWS Networking Masterclass – Amazon VPC & Hybrid Cloud 2024

Here’s a snapshot of the skills you’ll learn using this course:

• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
• Multi-Region and Multi-Account networking
• Amazon EC2 Networking
• VPC Peering
• VPC Endpoints
• AWS Client VPN and AWS Managed VPN
• AWS Direct Connect and Direct Connect Gateway
• AWS Transit Gateway
• Elastic Load Balancing with Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Network Load Balancer (NLB)
• AWS Global Accelerator
• Amazon CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail

In this course on AWS Networking and Amazon VPC – the topics you’ll learn include:

Getting Started – Setup AWS Account

Setup and AWS Free Tier account, configure the account, and install command line tools (AWS CLI).

Networking Fundamentals

Learn the fundamentals of networking in the cloud:

• Networking in the Cloud
• Bandwidth and Latency
• IP Addressing Basics (IPv4)
• The OSI Model
• Routing and Switching
• Network Address Translation
• Firewalls

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Deep dive on Amazon VPC with hands-on labs for all of the following:

• Amazon VPC creation
• Public and Private Subnets
• Defining VPC CIDR Blocks
• Security Groups and Network ACLs
• NAT Gateways and NAT Instances
• Using IPv6 in a VPC

Amazon EC2 Networking

Learn about the various networking interface and IP addressing options available for EC2 instances:

• Network Interfaces (ENI, ENA, EFA)
• Public, Private and Elastic IP Addresses
• NAT for Public Addresses

Amazon VPC Connectivity and DNS

Learn how to peer VPCs, connect to AWS public services with private addresses and use Route 53 for DNS:

• VPC Peering
• VPC Endpoints
• Amazon Route 53
• Amazon Route 53 Resolver

Hybrid Connectivity

Learn how to connect your Amazon VPC to your on-premises environment and build complex topologies:

• AWS Client VPN
• AWS Site-to-Site VPN
• AWS VPN CloudHub
• AWS Direct Connect (DX)
• AWS Direct Connect Gateway
• AWS Transit Gateway

Load Balancing and Acceleration

Learn how to use Amazon Elastic Load Balancing and AWS Global Accelerator:

• Elastic Load Balancing
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Group
• Amazon Application Load Balancer (ALB)
• Amazon Network Load Balancer (NLB)
• AWS Global Accelerator

Monitoring, Auditing and Logging

Learn how to monitor your application performance, collect application and system logs, and audit activity on AWS:

• Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch
• Auditing with AWS CloudTrail
• VPC Flow Logs
• Traffic Mirroring
• Reachability Analyzer

Command Line and Automation

Learn how to build AWS VPCs using the AWS CLI and how to automate VPC deployment with AWS CloudFormation:

• Setting up the AWS CLI
• Create a VPC and Subnets with AWS CLI
• Launch EC2 instances into subnets with AWS CLI
• Create Amazon VPC with CloudFormation